Experiential
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Trade Shows
Portals, Dimension, and Bites: Five Fresh Ideas from Groceryshop 2025
This year’s Groceryshop 2025, held Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, drew more than 5,000 senior-level retail, grocery and CPG professionals from more than 50 countries, with topics such as enterprise-wide AI and health-driven, value-conscious consumers dominating conversations. Owned and produced by Hyve Group, the show has a signature vibe that […]
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Trade Shows
Six Exhibiting Best Practices, Straight from Trade Show Organizers
Amid generational shifts and evolving attendee habits, trade shows are increasingly investing in exhibitor education long before the doors open, ensuring that brands get the most return on their investments and remain loyal and satisfied show exhibitors. For example, in preparation for CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026, taking place in Las Vegas next March, the show held an […]
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Trade Shows
Sustainable Exhibiting Shines at IMEX America 2025
Sustainability has become a key thought leadership path at IMEX shows, serving as a benchmark and an evolving toolbox for the trade show and events industry. For exhibitors, this means tapping into the maturing frameworks for sustainable exhibitors and also learning to tell their sustainability story. Billed as a zero-waste event, IMEX America diverts 93 […]
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B-to-B Events
IMEX America 2025: Five Takeaways for Trade Show Marketers
IMEX America, a trade show for the meetings and events industry that took place on Oct. 7-9 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, set a new record with more than 17,000 participants and more than 90,000 scheduled meetings. EM was on the ground to bring you the latest thinking and activations inspo […]
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B-to-C Events
Ideas from NYCC 2025: Paramount’s Botany Lab, HBO’s Horror Show, Walmart’s Gaming Retreat and More
Like its counterpart San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con (NYCC) offered a treasure trove of activities and activations built for pop culture superfans this year. The 19th annual event (Oct. 9-12) was packed with panels, cosplay competitions, workshops, talent shows and, yes, brand experiences. From multisensory booths on the show floor at the Javits […]
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B-to-C Events
How Your Reformer is Leveraging a Localized Experiential Strategy to Break into the U.S.
Breaking into a new market isn’t easy. Add in the factor that the new market is thousands of miles away from HQ, and it’s even trickier. Enter: Australian wellness brand Your Reformer, which is coming off its first year in the U.S. The launch has been full of learnings and successes that founder Emma Stallworthy […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Celebrity Dashcams and Studio Cheez
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Celebrity Dashcams, visual love letters and Studio Cheez.
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Festivals & Fan Cons
Experiential Trend of the Week: Hotlines
The days of the landline are long gone. Pay phones are a rarity. And kids today don’t know what a rotary phone is. But with the takeover of digital communication, there’s now a kind of novelty to the phone call that brands are capitalizing on this year. Enter: the hotline. Not just for information, emergencies […]
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B-to-C Events
Nine More Brands Popping up at College Campuses This Fall
Last month, we rounded up five mobile tours that pulled into college campuses to capitalize on the hype around back-to-school season. Now that classes are in full swing, brands are still making their way around the country to reach Gen Zers where they are and offer some respite from studying for midterms. From makeup moments […]
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B-to-B Events
Five Ways Webflow Reimagined its User Conference in the Service of ‘Play’
When Webflow set out to overhaul its user conference, the design-forward brand aimed to execute a dynamic, art-driven experience that mirrored the energy of this year’s event objective—to demonstrate the evolution of web design in the age of AI. So with a “play” theme to run with and a venue that served as a blank […]
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