Campaigns + Creative
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CES 2025
Video: 29 Questions with Panasonic at CES 2025
Ever wonder what the head of marketing and comms for Panasonic and a Czarnowski vp of accounts have to say about CES, experiential and emojis? We found out through 29 rapid-fire questions asked during a tour of the brand’s CES 2025 booth.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Ice Festivals and Big Rings
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover ice festivals, true crime spas and Big Rings.
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B-to-C Events
The Rise of Women’s Sports Activations
Endorsements of female athletes is an evergreen marketing strategy, but women’s sports is embarking on a new, more experiential era as the teams, leagues and individual players that once played to limited audiences find new fans, larger audiences and a fresh crop of passionate investors. For early movers in the event community, it’s an exciting […]
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B-to-B Events
Q&A: How One Event Speaker is on a Mission to Support Sober Lifestyles
Event networking experiences often revolve around the bar. Once those black-cloth topped carts roll out, it’s a signal to socialize and sip while doing it, often at the end of the day. For those who don’t drink alcohol, the bar cart can be triggering, and the timing of the networking, cumbersome. It wasn’t until Laura […]
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B-to-B Events
NRF 2025: Five Exhibit Design Trends from Retail’s Big Show
While the show floor at NRF 2025 was abuzz with talk of AI agents and retail media networks earlier this week, EM arrived at New York City’s Javits Center to explore how some of the world’s biggest retail brands approached exhibit design and engagement at the National Retail Federation’s “Big Show.” An estimated 40,000 people […]
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B-to-B Events
Deepfakes and Trust: Inside Accenture’s Experience at CES 2025
At CES 2025, Accenture invited clients and guests to explore the AI-powered future, showcasing the power of new technologies, reinvention—and trust—through experiences that broke through even at the largest tech show of the year. Just off the show floor at The Venetian Expo, the company’s branded lounge was about what’s next and how it translates […]
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B-to-C Events
How Dating Apps Are Going Offline to Combat the Loneliness Epidemic
It’s a brand-new year, and singles are taking the time to reflect, reset and restart their dating journeys with open hearts. The first Sunday in January is annually recognized as Dating Sunday, the busiest day for dating apps, and Tinder revealed the internal data to back this up: Swipe activity is nearly 20-percent higher than […]
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B-to-B Events
CES 2025: Five Things to Know About HERE Technologies’ Sustainability Strategy
Designed at a precise 17-degree angle to meet the gaze of CES 2025 attendees as they entered the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall, HERE Technologies’ 3,500-square-foot booth proclaimed in a banner overhead, “There’s more in HERE.” And from a design strategy perspective, there certainly was. For nearly a decade at CES, the location technology […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Toy-Sized Showrooms and Fantasy ‘Foodball’
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover toy-sized pop-ups, a Fantasy Foodball Pool, and live from New York, it’s The SNL50 Experience.
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B-to-C Events
Miami Art Week: 10 Experiential Ideas Worth Stealing
Every winter, more than 20 international art fairs come to life in Miami across 1,200-plus galleries, where the work of thousands of global artists is on display. In recent years, brand activations and events have also become essential to the upscale event’s ecosystem, and during Miami Art Week 2024 (Dec. 2-8), some new faces and […]