Campaigns + Creative

While the show floor at NRF 2025 was abuzz with talk of AI agents and retail media networks earlier this week, EM arrived at New York City’s Javits Center to explore how some of the world’s biggest retail brands approached exhibit design and engagement at the National Retail Federation’s “Big Show.” An estimated 40,000 people […]

At CES 2025, Accenture invited clients and guests to explore the AI-powered future, showcasing the power of new technologies, reinvention—and trust—through experiences that broke through even at the largest tech show of the year. Just off the show floor at The Venetian Expo, the company’s branded lounge was about what’s next and how it translates […]

It’s a brand-new year, and singles are taking the time to reflect, reset and restart their dating journeys with open hearts. The first Sunday in January is annually recognized as Dating Sunday, the busiest day for dating apps, and Tinder revealed the internal data to back this up: Swipe activity is nearly 20-percent higher than […]

Designed at a precise 17-degree angle to meet the gaze of CES 2025 attendees as they entered the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall, HERE Technologies’ 3,500-square-foot booth proclaimed in a banner overhead, “There’s more in HERE.” And from a design strategy perspective, there certainly was. For nearly a decade at CES, the location technology […]

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover toy-sized pop-ups, a Fantasy Foodball Pool, and live from New York, it’s The SNL50 Experience.

Every winter, more than 20 international art fairs come to life in Miami across 1,200-plus galleries, where the work of thousands of global artists is on display. In recent years, brand activations and events have also become essential to the upscale event’s ecosystem, and during Miami Art Week 2024 (Dec. 2-8), some new faces and […]

Olivia Rodrigo. Charli XCX. Big Sean. Sabrina Carpenter. These are just some of the pop artists shaking up the sponsorship landscape through unconventional brand partnerships that reimagine what a celebrity endorsement looks like (hint: it looks a lot more experiential). Enterprising marketers have long leaned on celebrities to help them excite fans, gain traction with […]

TikTok is set to go dark in the U.S. on Jan. 19, as the Supreme Court upheld the law that would ban the app. Before it goes away, explore the brands that did TikTok right.

The façade of the BMW experience at CES 2025 might have been a lock-box design, an unveiling of a top-secret announcement, and the feeling that attendees would be given exclusive access to something extraordinary. And spoiler alert: We think they did. The talk of the show this year, the experience at the Las Vegas Convention […]

AARP has returned to CES to spotlight the explosive trends in AgeTech and showcase the latest innovations, including the startups and companies in its AgeTech Collaborative from AARP, an ecosystem of investors and other stakeholders working to bring groundbreaking AgeTech to market.  The sprawling dual exhibit featured emerging technologies from 24 startups on one side […]