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2025 Upfronts: Disney Works its Magic with Storytelling and Supreme Star Power

If you ask Disney Advertising, static Upfronts are in the rearview mirror where they belong. Over the last decade, the media presentations have evolved from glorified business meetings to all-encompassing brand immersions, and on May 13 at New York’s Javits Center, the company did its part to raise the experiential bar. From the stage to […]

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B-to-B Maximalism

We might thank Barbie for the shift from sad beige to unabashedly bold color play over the past two years. The practice has been seeping into every corner of the event landscape, most interestingly in business conference and trade show environments. This year, however, patterns and textures have joined the mix in what Pinterest and […]

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Inside RSAC 2025 in San Francisco: AI Threats, Ninjas and Baby Goats

RSAC 2025 Conference, the world’s largest cybersecurity show, brought together a record 44,000 attendees to its 34th annual flagship event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 28 through May 1. Among the most pressing topics discussed were Agentic AI, critical infrastructure, emerging threats and evolving policy, all part of the rapidly changing environment […]

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Ford Performance’s High-octane Season Launch Brings Stakeholders to the Speedway

There’s a time and a place for static auto shows, but for its 2025 Season Launch event, Ford Performance went full-throttle on a decidedly experiential strategy to unite stakeholders under one roof.

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Pedro Chira

How do you create IRL events in a digital industry? That’s the question that keeps things exciting for Pedro Chira, director-global field marketing at Circle, a global financial technology firm in the crypto space

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AAD 2025: How a Nostalgic Newsstand and Night Market Gave Neutrogena an Edge with Dermatologists

Science and beauty have always been at the foundation of Neutrogena’s brand, and at this year’s American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Annual Meeting (the world’s largest event of its kind), the brand blended that heritage with its most recent innovations in a science lab-themed environment. In partnership with AIRE Health, and as part of a […]

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Field Report: Five Game-Changing Trends from Google Cloud Next 25

A perfect mix of brand and business, Google Cloud’s flagship event, showcasing the transformative power of AI and its practical applications for companies, brought together over 36,000 industry tech professionals, developers, engineers, analysts and industry leaders to Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The event opened with a keynote where Google Cloud […]

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Watch: Minute Clinic at EMS 2025, featuring the Experiential in Color Mentorship Program

The Experiential in Color Mentorship Program came to life at EMS 2025 with an inaugural meetup. We caught up with Karlene Palmer-Mcleod, member of the Steering Committee, to discuss connecting BIPOC event professionals with industry leaders.

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Dress Like a Rockstar: What to Wear to Trade Shows

Can’t decide what your team should wear to a trade show? How about roller skates? At Natural Food Expo West, pet food and lifestyle brand Bundle X Joy drew a crowd to its 10×10 booth where staffers were decked in on-brand pearlescent outfits, complete with custom blazers, hair scrunchies and roller skates from Impala Skates. […]

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15 Big, Bold Trade Show Ideas from EMS 2025

The 23rd annual Experiential Marketing Summit (EMS) brought over 1,500 b-to-b and b-to-c marketers, trade show pros and agency execs to MGM Grand Las Vegas, April 14-16, for three days of inspiration, hands-on learning, and perspectives on what’s shaping event marketing today. This year, the Summit’s trade show track featured several sessions and events, including […]

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