New York Comic Con is a bustling fandom event, but outside the walls of the Javits Center in New York City is a landscape and people not so easily surprised—unless it involves 20 unique “Deadpool” variants galavanting about, that is. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment unleashed a street team to promote the “Deadpool & Wolverine” […]

Harrison Gross, CEO of smart eyewear brand Lucyd Eyewear, discusses the marketing and customer experience tactics the brand employs to stay relevant and growing in 2024. Facebook ads are roughly half as effective today than they were five years ago, said Lucyd Eyewear CEO Harrison Gross.   Most retail marketers know this and point to Apple’s […]

When Citi cardmembers gathered for a Jack Harlow performance in Brooklyn, NY, on Oct. 17, it was a grand homecoming of sorts. The occasion marked the revival of the Citi Sound Vault concert platform after a four-year hiatus and took place at the historic Brooklyn Paramount, which reopened this year after a multimillion dollar renovation. […]

There are more than 4,600 Walmart brick-and-mortar stores spread across the U.S. But in promoting its new fashion collections and convenient online shopping experience, the brand wanted to engage consumers where they are—anywhere—and offer a trendy, luxe and convenient experience. Kicking off the fall fashion season, Walmart in September launched the Walmart Style Tour, which […]

With AI, everyone’s talking about efficiency, scale, and optimization. But at BlackWeek’s “Diverse Data Matters – DE&AI” session, the conversation took a turn — toward the very real blind spots lurking in AI’s algorithms. 

For more than a decade, EventTrack has been the leading and largest annual research study on experiential marketing. There’s nothing else like it. Six Surveys in One Report. Separate surveys were initiated to consumer event marketers, b-to-b event marketers, corporate trade show exhibitors—plus attendees at consumer events, b-to-b events and trade shows. Fortune 1000 Insights. From spending, […]

We discuss the rise of curation in programmatic buying and the current backlash. Is curation an ad network with new window dressing? And will it save or undermine the open web?

Thursday, October 24, 2024 Good morning! It’s Thursday, and this is your monthly Gaming Brief. Goku and the gang are back. Anime fighting games are back in vogue this month thanks to the release of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO on Oct. 11. The title has sold over three million copies since its […]

As the U.S. election approaches, PR professionals face a dilemma: surrender to a sea of politically-dominated coverage or navigate onward and continue pitching media?

Fans around the world tuned in to Netflix’s “Squid Game” in 2021, making it the most-watched (non-English) TV show in the brand’s history—and they’ve been clamoring for more of the South Korean thriller series ever since. So with the debut of season two finally arriving on Dec. 26, the streaming service and another global powerhouse, […]