Campaigns + Creative
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Festivals & Fan Cons
Coca-Cola Activates its Largest Footprint Yet at Essence Festival
Keeping a presenting sponsorship fresh after 31 years is challenging, but with comprehensive feedback analysis, and hyper-local inspiration, Coca-Cola ensures its presence at Essence Festival of Culture is never flat.
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Pop-Ups
The Brief: Retro Malls and Cheese Ball Challenges
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover the Million Cheese Ball Challenge, The House of Lexus and an ’80s-themed mall takeover.
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Pop-Ups
Crayola Targets a New Demo—Adults—with a Camp-Themed Launch
As adults battle burnout and seek creative, screen-free ways to decompress—look no further than the cozy coloring and grandma hobbies trends—some heritage kids’ brands are rethinking priorities and products to meet the moment.
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Festivals & Fan Cons
Tabby Trucks and Tunnel Walks: WNBA All-Star 2026 Brand Activations
With the WNBA continuing to hit record viewership and attendance numbers, the league’s 30th season celebration couldn’t have come at a better time, and All-Star Weekend in Chicago continued to build on that momentum.
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Trade Shows
Guest Column: The Fee You Didn’t Know You Were Paying
Many exhibitor service manuals contain an EAC fee. Most exhibit and event marketers have never been told what it is, what it covers, or why it keeps showing up. Open the exhibitor services manual for your next show and scroll past the carpet and the electrical order forms. Somewhere in the labor section sits a […]
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Festivals & Fan Cons
Comic-Con 2026, Part 1: How 10 Brands Activated in San Diego
From the badge-holders, to the superfans who can’t get their hands on a ticket, activations at San Diego Comic-Con welcome everyone into the fold, and this year’s showing was no exception. Training quarters, surprise game shows, auction houses and carnivals were all on the activation agenda. Join us for a tour.
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B-to-C Events
Designing Theatrical, Immersive Worlds, with Dr. Ilana Gilovich-Stossel
Since childhood, Dr. Ilana Gilovich-Stossel has been drawn to magic of storytelling and the world-building and imagination that go into it, especially in the theatrical medium. Through her English literature studies and Ph.D. earned at Columbia University, she homed in on the academic side of theatrical performance, which has influenced her career as a creative […]
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Shopper/Retail
New Povison Flagship Store Unlocks Deeper Customer Engagement, Higher AOV
After an informative pop-up store, Povison learned shoppers want more power recliners, as the product accounted for 39% of sales with a 30% higher AOV.
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Pop-Ups
The Brief: Boot Rooms and Beer Windows
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover the Febreze Boot Room Tour, folding pubs and Peroni Portals.
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Pop-Ups
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Commiseration Activations
Diehard sports fans recognize that you can’t win ’em all, but that doesn’t make their team’s losses any less devastating—especially during tentpole tournaments like the FIFA World Cup and March Madness. And as of late, savvy brands have been quick to offer a shoulder to cry on with commiseration-themed activations designed to boost spirits (and […]