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B-to-C Events

  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Dog-First Events

    Dog-friendly experiences have their appeal, but savvy marketers are pulling on pet parents’ heartstrings with events that don’t just allow pups, but are specifically designed with four-legged friends in mind. Whether it’s colors optimized for canines’ eyes, games and challenges built to stimulate their brains, or treat zones for their enjoyment, companies are sniffing out […]

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  • Experiential in Color Mentorship Q&A: Anna Nicholson and Melencia Lattimore

    For Anna Nicholson, it’s a full-circle moment to be participating in the Experiential in Color Mentorship Program. In 2021, she was recognized in Experiential in Color’s first class of rising-star honorees. Four years later, Nicholson is now an event manager at Yahoo and is giving back to the industry, mentoring Melencia Lattimore, meeting coordinator at A-Plus Meetings & Incentives.

    Lattimore never had a mentor before, but the opportunity to join the mentorship program felt right, as she was preparing to graduate with her master’s from the FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. She was looking for support from an experienced mentor to make industry connections and reaffirm that events was the career path she wanted to follow, and Nicholson was the perfect match.

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  • How 14 Brands Lit up the Strip for the 2025 Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

    Back for a third year, the Formula 1 Heineken Las Vegas Grand Prix took over the Strip for a 3.8-mile night race that passed by all of the city’s iconic landmarks, Nov. 20-22. The Sphere was once again integrated into the spectacle, with larger-than-life video imagery of the drivers and sponsors illuminated on its surface […]

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  • Audible Brings the Magic of its New ‘Harry Potter’ Series to Life with a Global Campaign

    To broadcast the debut of its “most ambitious” audiobook production to date, “Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions,” Audible wanted to match the scale and grandeur of the new seven-book series, co-produced with Pottermore Publishing, by providing fans around the world with a dose of experiential magic. So on Nov. 3, the brand rolled out […]

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  • The Brief: Revolving Libraries and the Maxxinista Express

    This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover revolving beach libraries, waterfall billboards and the Maxxinista Express.

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  • Cover Story: Inside the Meteoric Rise of Immersive Entertainment Experiences

    A century ago, consumers were shuffling to big-top tents in droves to experience the grand display of surprise, t and spectacle that circuses had to offer. Today, the “greatest show on Earth” just might be the IP that a brand translates from the screen to the stage for an audience that is already privy to the plot.

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  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Event Spas

    Gen Z helped put wellness on the map, both as a lifestyle space and a business imperative. In events, wellness has been steadily evolving from a conversation, to an activity, to a full-on sponsorable engagement for brands—this year, among non-endemic companies, especially. Earlier this year, retail and e-commerce professionals were treated to recharge experiences at […]

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  • BravoCon 2025’s Brand Partners Help Deliver the Ultimate Fan Experience

    NBCUniversal brought back BravoCon this year after skipping the event in 2024, and it pulled up to the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas in a big way. Not only did the convention showcase Bravo’s most popular reality series across four jam-packed days of live events featuring more than 150 Bravolebrities but it also provided plenty […]

  • Watch The Brief, Live! November 2025 Edition: Experiential News & Ideas

    The editors of Event Marketer recap their top experiential stories from November with a buttery twist—think: turkey spas, Black “Wednesday” shopping, and dips in mini kitchens.

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  • Full Coverage: The 2025 Experience Design Awards

    The editors of Event Marketer have unveiled the winners of the 2025 Experience Design Awards, an annual recognition of outstanding event design, innovative builds, interactive tech, and environmental creativity across a wide variety of consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats.

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