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Q&A: How One Event Speaker is on a Mission to Support Sober Lifestyles

Event networking experiences often revolve around the bar. Once those black-cloth topped carts roll out, it’s a signal to socialize and sip while doing it, often at the end of the day. For those who don’t drink alcohol, the bar cart can be triggering, and the timing of the networking, cumbersome. It wasn’t until Laura […]

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NRF 2025: Five Exhibit Design Trends from Retail’s Big Show

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 […]

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Deepfakes and Trust: Inside Accenture’s Experience at CES 2025

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 […]

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CES 2025: Five Things to Know About HERE Technologies’ Sustainability Strategy

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 […]

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The Mocktail Movement Goes Mainstream

What better time than Dry January, when many consumers try their hand at abstaining from alcoholic drinks, to talk about a trend that started gaining momentum a few years ago but will become an absolute “must-have” at events in the year ahead. Offering mocktails (non-alcoholic cocktails) to event-goers isn’t a new concept, but a growing […]

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People’s Choice: Our Top 10 Most-read Stories of 2024

Many pop culture moments marked 2024, from Brat summer, to Moo Deng the pigmy hippo, to the Willy Wonka fiasco in Glasgow, to the “Glicked” phenomenon, to the viral break dancer from the Paris Games. But industry pros made an impact, too, activating experiences that challenged perceptions, pushed boundaries, drove loyalty and delivered joy. Following […]

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Agency Leader Chats: Changes, Culture, Themes for the Year Ahead

The outlook for agencies is “steady.” Satellite offices are popping up, business is on the rise, and development, hiring, marketing and launching new services are among the major investments that agency leaders say they are making for 2025. A three-year trend continues with creative and account services roles serving as top headcount growth areas, as […]

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5 Lessons in Immersive Storytelling from DesignScene and Secret Theatre

In 2023, global brand activation agency DesignScene acquired Secret Theatre, led by artistic director Richard Crawford, known for immersive productions like Edward Scissorhands in New York and the internationally acclaimed Hell Hath No Fury, which toured London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It’s a partnership and evolution for both companies, as the worlds of immersive theatre […]

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Roundup: 10 Things We Loved in Trade Shows in 2024

One of our favorite perks of covering trade shows is exploring what’s happening around the exhibit floor throughout the year, tracking next-level innovation in translating business objectives to immersive storytelling and, frankly, just getting our minds blown. We rolled back the tape and came up with a list of things we loved this year and […]

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The Top Thrills, Chills and Frills from IAAPA Expo 2024 in Orlando

The theme park and attractions industry isn’t known as the “business of fun” for nothing. When manufacturers and suppliers of roller coasters, water slides, arcade games, inflatables, f&b, haunts and theming come together, it’s a lively show floor filled with rides, lights, laughter and screams, not to mention tasty samples and sensorial experiences. IAAPA Expo […]

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