It was quite a busy January for news networks with a presidential inauguration and coverage of the L.A. fires.

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover pizza rentals, AI judges and Zen carriages.

The constant media narrative has led many towards AI fatigue and a skepticism around how much B2B business value it is actually delivering.

SharkNinja is working to level-up its customer experience with the Salesforce’s AI agent force, the brand recently announced.   SharkNinja is a manufacturer of household products including vacuums, blenders, hair dryers and other appliances. The brand selected Salesforce to replatform its ecommerce sites, deploy its AI customer service agents and enhance its personalization efforts, said chief […]

Welcome to the latest event marketing industry news digest, featuring updates on new hires, promotions, acquisitions, and launches. Submit your news here. Trends American Express Global Business Travel, a software and services company for travel and expense, has launched integrated emissions-based carbon pricing. Customers can pick a carbon calculation methodology to apply a carbon fee to […]

The CES campus stretches well beyond the convention center and expos proper, and into suites and ballrooms that brands have snapped up to create highly curated and intimate experiences. Intel is one of those brands, having famously vacated real estate at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the wake of COVID, in favor of, for […]

The dust has settled on CES 2025, and if there’s one overarching theme that we walked away with it’s that static is no more. Dancing installations, holographs, flip signage, movement in architecture, and soundscapes were among moments that caught and kept our attention across the show floor. We saw a new dimension to architecture and […]

It’s always nice to hear industry leaders reflect on their careers. This week, we caught an episode of “Breaking Schemas” with Gary Schanman, DISH TV and Sling TV EVP, Group President Video Services.

Dollar General’s typical shopper resides in rural America, which can be a tough customer segment to target. The value retail chain sits down with Multichannel Marketer to discuss how its retail media network can tap into these shoppers.  Dollar General knows its customer best. And it knows that its customer base — rural shoppers — can be a tough […]

Fifteen percent of your attendees probably don’t want the event experience you’re planning. And that’s because, according to some estimates, 15 to 20 percent of the population considers itself, or has been diagnosed, as neurodivergent. That means that one in five event attendees is neurodivergent. And that also means that many “best practices” the event […]