Trade Shows
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B-to-B Events
How Square Leveled Up the Fun at the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show
You hear it all the time: “Trade shows are no fun.” Square disagreed. For the 2026 National Restaurant Association Show, which took place May 16-19 at McCormick Place in Chicago, the brand activated the “Surprise and Delight” sponsorship during the busiest moments just before the doors opened with a skate show and mini-troopers falling from […]
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B-to-B Events
Field Report: How Brands Built Connection at Licensing Expo 2026, Starting with the Badge
Just as the Experiential Marketing Summit was bringing inspiration to brand marketers, across the Las Vegas Strip, brands were finding new avenues for fandom at Licensing Expo, which was taking place May 19-21 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The 2026 edition brought together about 12,500 industry professionals and a record 400 exhibitors, representing IP […]
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Shopper/Retail
Martha Stewart Shares Marketing Tips To Stay Relevant
In her keynote address at Salesforce Connections, Martha Stewart discusses taking risks, trying new technology and authenticity as a way to stay relevant across generations.
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Trade Shows
Event Marketer and The Exhibitor Advocate Announce Strategic Alliance
Exclusive content, research and event experiences will help elevate the trade show exhibitor community Event Marketer, the world’s most trusted and widely read media brand covering experiential and event marketing, today announced a landmark strategic alliance with The Exhibitor Advocate, the only nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to championing the interests and success of the […]
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B-to-B Events
Eight Strategies for Reducing Food Waste in Trade Shows and Events
Some 2,600 unserved meals were donated by the Washington Hilton after the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner was cut short on April 25 by a gunman. During a rare and dramatic event, the staff were able to follow the established food-saving protocols and didn’t let the meals go to waste. The Washington Hilton is […]
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B-to-B Events
Skeletons and Tattoos: How Torq Brings World Building to Trade Shows
If you’re not putting on a show, you’re just paying for a spot on carpet, says Don Jeter, cmo of Torq. At RSAC 2026, the enterprise security company went all in with a 20-foot inflatable skeleton and a fully operational tattoo bus. Insight was sizzling at the Cyber Wok lunch and CISO Karaoke, meetings were […]
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B-to-B Events
10 Minutes With… Gaby Ferreres, Head of Industry Marketing at AWS
As the media sector experiences rapidly change, Amazon Web Services (AWS) came to the NAB Show 2026 with the mission to empower storytellers to create, distribute, and monetize content at unprecedented scale. To deliver that, the brand leaned into a multi-pronged activation approach that engaged attendees across multiple touchpoints, from high-energy fun challenges to hands-on, […]
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Shopper/Retail
Sampling Grows Retail Sales at Awake Chocolate
CEO and co-founder at caffeinated chocolate brand Awake shares how the brand changed marketing tactics once it focused growing sales in retail stores.
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B-to-B Events
Field Report: Product Demos That Delivered at NAB 2026
The 2026 NAB Show, April 18–22 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, brought together more than 58,000 media professionals shaping the future of how content is created and delivered in entertainment, sports, news, and other forms of storytelling. Almost half of the audience members were first-time attendees, with 22 percent coming from outside the U.S. […]
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B-to-B Events
Meet the 2026 B-to-B Dream Team
For the last decade, EM has been championing the luminaries of the b-to-b event world, delving into their career journeys, portfolios, sources of inspiration, best practices and industry predictions. This year, as we mark the 10th anniversary of our B-to-B Dream Team recognition program, we’re celebrating nine new all-stars who don’t just execute events—they live […]
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