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SXSW 2025: Lush Tackles Gun Violence with its ‘Bloom A New Day’ Activation
Lush Cosmetics has deep roots in activism, even billing itself as a “campaigning organization fronted by a soap shop.” And at SXSW 2025, the brand proved as much. From March 9-10, Lush and nonprofit partner Change the Ref set up shop in Austin, TX, to raise awareness of school shootings and educate consumers on the […]
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Field Report: Top Exhibits at Design & Construction Week 2025
If you’re tired of designing exhibits within the confines of a brand’s colors, you’ve got to come to Design & Construction Week 2025 for inspiration, where staging, colors, finishes and lighting all come together to create impactful, visual brand stories. Design & Construction Week (DCW) that brings together the International Builders’ Show (IBS) and the […]
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The Brief: Blizzard Banks and GlowUp Studios
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Blizzard Banks, Grandmacore 2.0 and GlowUp Studios.
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Bubbles
Bubbles bring joy to any occasion from the way they float to the act of popping them. It’s why Skincare brand CeraVe replicated the experience in its “Soap POPera” game where attendees who stopped by its Drama Free Cleansing Tour last summer “popped” bubbles to win prizes. But CeraVe isn’t the only brand tapping into the […]
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The Best Bites: How Demos Cooked Up Brand Engagement at KBIS 2025
“We’re breaking the bank here with 30 dozen eggs,” joked Nick Ritchie, executive chef for the LG Signature Kitchen Suite (SKS) as he mixed a batch of Grammy’s Brownies in all their chocolatey gooeyness to showcase the brand’s new transitional wall oven series. LG revealed new branding for SKS at the 2025 National Kitchen & […]
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Five Ways Exhibitors at Toy Fair Stood out in a Sea of Playfulness
The first visual we laid eyes on at Toy Fair 2025 in New York City, held at the Javits Center, March 1-4, was a larger-than-life Rubik’s cube suspended in the air and surrounded by disco lights and bumping music. There was something about a handheld toy that has transcended generations, blown up in epic proportions, […]
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From Tech to Name-dropping, Four Ideas to Ace Your Golf Sponsorships
The Players Championship is starting next week, and brands are teeing up an array of experiences for fans to enjoy. With the tournament billed as having “something for everyone” and the PGA Tour underway, we looked back at last season’s fan engagement and activation strategies to glean four ideas to make every shot count.
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How Adyen Leaned on its Partner Ecosystem to Entice Retailers at NRF 2025
If you’re going to demonstrate the power of “unified commerce,” you’ve got to have a unified event strategy to match. Such was the case for financial technology platform Adyen, which, with the help of its merchant partners, leveraged a widespread presence at NRF 2025 to give customers and prospects hands-on experience with its omnichannel payment […]
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The Brief: Lay’s Lights and Parking Lot Coffees
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in events cover Lay’s Lights, fancy parking lot coffees and the debut of Ulta Beauty World.
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Swag-tivities
Event marketers are more conscious than ever about excessive waste, and that has led to all-new thinking, and engagement strategies, around a quintessential event and trade show activity: the giveaway. In fact, it’s a conversation that event marketers have been locked in for the better part of a decade—remember Hershey’s Take5 Swag Exchange campaign at […]
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