Campaigns + Creative

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Hydration Officers, spine-tingling chain reactions and Beautycon University.

The park rangers are gone, and so is the canoe. Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce’s annual flagship user conference in San Francisco, still had the camp vibe, but felt more like a reunion before a space launch. On the ground at Dreampark, we discovered how AI innovation is inspiring an evolution in the storied event’s theming.

On the final morning of Outdoor Retailer in Minneapolis, dozens of participants and volunteers gathered at Theodore Wirth Park for the inaugural 57hours Adventure Race, a 90-minute orienteering course built with the Minnesota Orienteering Club and supported by The Loppet Foundation. As OR attendees and content creators were getting ready to explore the “urban outdoors,” […]

Events today are destinations, where learning, connection and commerce converge. And while shoppable event experiences aren’t anything new, we’ve got our eyes on how these spaces are serving as storytelling engines. Let’s take a look at the ways event marketers are curating a little retail therapy across the industry. Most recently, FX promoted its new […]

The boxed wine brand’s Wing It With Bota campaign, which features a Guy Fieri Flavortown partnership, recipe contest and college tailgate sampling, is chasing a new audience by pairing wine with wings and football.

It wasn’t that long ago when goat yoga on the trade show floor was the GOAT. Seeing your boss doing a downward dog at 6 a.m. was somehow a healthy thing to do. And bailing out on dinner because your sensory overload was real and you couldn’t deal with your colleagues anymore was plain rude.  […]

Try as we might, we couldn’t get our hands on Burger King’s Le Nugguette, a limited-edition nugget-sized purse with a dipping sauce charm. The brand released 100 micro-bags daily for $3.99 (the same price as a 10-piece chicken nugget order) from Sept. 12-16, and it sold out within seconds. The fast-food fashion drop was just […]

When Edgard & Cooper carved out a plan to reclaim the “soul” of its company, it leaned into its core belief that pets deserve the best, and that the relationship between animals and their humans should be celebrated.

A new survey finds consumers are motivated to attend live marketing activations to discover new products and see a product in person.

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover cat bodegas, scientific mobile tours and Cinema Lavazza.