Campaigns + Creative

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover drama-free mobile tours, beach club bronzing and Banana-Versaries.

Back-to-school season is upon us, and smart marketers are accounting for today’s fast-paced culture and shoppable world through campaigns and activations designed to equip, inspire and engage students, parents and educators, alike. Urban Outfitters in July unveiled the Gen Z-focused campaign, “Shift Happens,” touching every point along the college journey, from the Instagram scroll to […]

The oat milk brand activated a sampling experience in Washington, D.C., across the street from the annual IDFA Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party, parking its own bright yellow ice cream truck with a huge inflatable ice cream cone on top to serve curious passersby Oatly Soft Serve and climate impact facts.

The Minions have become icons in their own right, so for the premiere of Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4,” the latest installment in the series the launched them to stardom, Universal Pictures just had to put the yellow, banana-loving, goggle-wearing creatures front and center. From popping up on the red (actually, yellow) carpet to mobile billboards […]

San Diego Comic-Con returned to its former glory last week after the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes took some wind out of the event’s sales in 2023. The pop culture convention, this year July 25-28, once again served as a playground for both superfans of comics, movies, TV, gaming and multimedia, and the […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover foldable buses, Piña Oatladas and the Stayman Islands.

Costs have peaked, deadlines are tight and freelancers are backing up agency operations teams that are busier than they ever have been.

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity this year, in part due to rookie phenoms like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, whose talent and stories have captivated hoops fans and the media alike. And with excitement at an all-time high surrounding the AT&T WNBA All-Star Game and festivities, July […]

What’s the perfect backdrop to recreate a post-apocalyptic landscape? Albuquerque, NM, and its desert climate fit the bill for a takeover of the local Monterey Motel that was transformed into “The Mountain Dew Borderlands Motel,” straight out of the new film, debuting Aug. 9. Mountain Dew partnered with Lionsgate and Regal Cinemas on the dystopian […]

It wasn’t long ago that force majeure was commonly perceived as insignificant boilerplate language added to the end of an event contract. Then 2020 and a global pandemic hit, and the provision was suddenly viewed as an instrumental clause that could shield event hosts from legal action as a sea of cancellations was sweeping the […]