Campaigns + Creative

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Kidney Passes, Bites for Bytes and an experiential Dive-In Theater.

For more than 50 years, superfans of comics, movies, gaming and other popular arts have jetted to Comic-Con International for the community, the content, the cosplay—and the experiences. During this year’s event, July 24-27, EM joined the geek squad for a three-day jaunt through San Diego and its Gaslamp District, all in search of the […]

Celsius scored some major wins during the 2025 MLS All-Star Week. Building on its first-time presence last year, the Official Energy Drink of MLS arrived in Austin, TX, ready to hype up soccer fans for the All-Star Game on July 23. Celsius incorporated its new Live. Fit. Go. campaign, the largest marketing initiative in the […]

To ensure that the Experiential Marketing Summit is evolving to meet the needs of modern event marketers, we’ve selected a new class of leading brand marketers to serve as Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members for the next two years. We are proud to include this esteemed group in our EMS “Brain Trust” and can’t […]

With the rise of high-impact general sessions, like keynotes at Sphere that offer sleek but immersive presentations powered by LEDs, event marketers are raising the bar on how to produce engaging main stage experiences. One medium we’ve been combing for best practices? Live podcast productions, where in-depth and in-person conversations are “must-see” by nature. The […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Intense Nacho Tours, Plastic Pauses and big balls.

Gone are the days of one-way conversations. In the post-COVID, value-for-time world that event marketers are building experiences in, themed learning is improving engagement and retention. And the bolder, more playful the theme, the better. Let’s take a look at themed learning in action.   Cinema Morgan Stanley at Work caught our attention with an […]

Nature Made’s recent marketing initiative with HelloFresh is highly targeted, aiming to place product samples of its probiotic directly in the hands of interested consumers. Here’s a deep dive into the vitamin brand’s campaign.

For its first U.S. activation, mobile game Brawl Stars, developed by Supercell, went big. During San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-27, it popped up an amusement park on a floating barge on San Diego Bay, and more than 4,000 fans went through the 45-minute immersive adventure that spanned a simulated monorail ride and the carnival game-filled […]

EM’s editors descended on SoCal in July for what is arguably the superfan event of the year—San Diego Comic-Con. Join us for a video tour of a few top SDCC 2025 brand activations that took place outside the convention center, and all across the Gaslamp District. It’s time to let your geek flag fly.   […]