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Welcome to this month’s event marketing industry news digest, featuring updates on new hires, promotions, acquisitions, and launches. Submit your news here. Acquisitions OBE Worldwide (parent of On Board Experiential) has acquired a majority stake in London-based agency Playmaker Experiential, led by managing partners Ian Hayne and James Hogben. With the deal, OBE expands the […]

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Cookie loss is happening, even if it doesn’t feel imminent, and there’s no point in procrastinating, according to Sisi Zhang, chief data and analytics officer at Publicis-owned Razorfish.

Why are there so many loss-leading streaming services? Blame it on Bob Iger. “It was Bob Iger’s fault, and I mean that in the nicest way,” said LightShed Partners Co-Founder Rich Greenfield, speaking at CTV Connect in New York City on Wednesday. “He was so darn successful on Day One,” Greenfield said. Disney launched ad-free […]

They can’t fetch a coffee order, but they can probably whip up a recipe that’ll change your ordering habits forever… in seconds. Jack Morton’s innovation practice, Jack X, is diving into the possibilities and intricacies of AI’s impact on creativity, marketing and business as it welcomed on Feb. 26 its first AI-generated virtual intern, XARA, […]

From the editors at Event Marketer comes Event Ops, a series of live conversations about event execution, operations and production with the agency ops stars who make so much of the magic happen. Live on LinkedIn February 29, 2-2:30pm ET with Sparks’ Bill Cembor and Mosaic North America’s Greg Wamsley.