This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover BagMobiles, floating activations and Komboomcha Boxes.

Brian Snyder, Chief Innovation Officer at Axicom, offered some suggestions on what to measure when it comes to reputation and AI answers.

Exhibit industry news for corporate trade show marketers, featuring intel on research, trends, and company updates. Celebrate Global Exhibitions Day The world’s top exhibition organizers, Clarion Events, Comexposium, Emerald, Informa, and RX, joined forces on June 4 to celebrate the 10th edition of Global Exhibitions Day (GED). Under the theme “Exhibitions Unleash Potential,” the milestone […]

Part architectural showcase, part trade show, part biennale, Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, is taking place between April and October 2025 and is expected to attract more than 28 million visitors to the artificial island of Yumeshima, making it one of the largest gatherings of the year. Taking place 55 years since the Osaka Expo […]

There’s a reason why Expo 2025 Osaka offers a season pass. It’s impossible to see and experience everything it has to offer on one trip from a logistical standpoint and due to sensory overload. Many pavilions require advance reservations through lotteries, which makes sense for managing the crowds, but also creates a significant barrier to […]

Caterpillar’s story at Bauma, which takes place every three years at the Messe München in Munich, is primarily about scale. At this trade show for construction, building and mining machines, recently held April 7-13, the brand’s nearly 1 million square feet of booth space housed 51 larger-than-life pieces of engineering equipment available to order right […]

Bombay Sapphire’s brand director Jamie Keller details the campaigns and sponsorships the brand is using to ignite sales on the under-consumed spirit.  Bombay Sapphire’s brand director Jamie Keller is working to “break the taste barrier” for gin in the U.S. Although growing in market share, gin only captures 3% of the spirit market  in the […]

It’s easy to understand why some publishers feel like pressing pause on cookieless data strategies. A significant portion of ad spend still flows toward third-party cookie-based campaigns.

The “main stage” is taking on a whole new life as event marketers and their partners embrace immersive media, bold spaces and pop culture trends to showcase leaders and launches in a new light. From live-streaming to on-demand channels, these productions—the content, the set, the experience design—have to be as compelling for in-person audiences as […]

The ad market is like a hydra: Every time a head gets cut off, two grow back. Which is to say, for every channel that goes out of fashion – we’re looking at you, linear TV and physical newspapers – a new one pops up to replace it, keeping overall ad spend on the rise. […]