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The Brief: Big Balls and Nacho Tours

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Intense Nacho Tours, Plastic Pauses and big balls.

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SDCC 2025: ‘Percy Jackson’ Fans are ‘Claimed’ by the Gods at Disney’s Themed Diner

From the books to the movies to Disney’s hit series, the “Percy Jackson” franchise has attracted throngs of fans. And at San Diego Comic-Con, they lined up for hours for a chance to partake in an immersive diner experience that revealed clues about season two, which follows the second book in the series, “The Sea […]

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SDCC 2025: Brawl Stars Takes Fans on a Wild Monorail Ride into the Carnival-themed Starr Park

For its first U.S. activation, mobile game Brawl Stars, developed by Supercell, went big. During San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-27, it popped up an amusement park on a floating barge on San Diego Bay, and more than 4,000 fans went through the 45-minute immersive adventure that spanned a simulated monorail ride and the carnival game-filled […]

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SDCC 2025 Video Tour: Activations from Disney, Paramount+, FX, Adult Swim and More

EM’s editors descended on SoCal in July for what is arguably the superfan event of the year—San Diego Comic-Con. Join us for a video tour of a few top SDCC 2025 brand activations that took place outside the convention center, and all across the Gaslamp District. It’s time to let your geek flag fly. […]

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Watch The Brief, Live! July 2025 Edition: San Diego Comic-Con

Event Marketer’s Rachel Boucher, head of content; Kait Shea, senior editor and manager-digital, and Juanita Chavarro Arias, managing editor, recap and provide commentary on some of the top experiential stories, ideas and trends of the month. In this special “San Diego Comic-Con Edition,” however, we talk hidden photo ops, clowns in corn fields and activation […]

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Nine Marketing Activations From WNBA All-Star Weekend 2025

The 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Weekend welcomed thousands of basketball fans and more than 25 WNBA partners and licensees for the two-day fan fest. Here are nine brands that activated during the event.

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SDCC 2025: Superfans ‘Find Their Mountain’ at Paramount+’s Lodge

From the fandom to the temps, it’s hot, hot, hot in SoCal this week, where EM has landed for what is arguably the superfan event of the year: San Diego Comic-Con. Among brands leading the experiential way once again is Paramount+ and its touring activation, The Lodge. The footprint is bigger and the IP is […]

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SDCC 2025: Conveyor Belts Move Fans Through Google Play’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Rewards Lab

Building wraps are all over San Diego this week as Comic-Con takes over the city, but none beckoned us over more than the sight of a looming Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” (the rest of the cast was on the oversized poster, too…). Underneath the huge banner, at Martin […]

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WNBA All-Star Weekend 2025: Activations from AT&T, DICK’S, Meta, Starry and More

Thousands of basketball fans turned out for the 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Weekend, July 18-19, in Indianapolis, a first-time host for the event. Ahead of the 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game, which drew a sellout crowd of 16,988 to the Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, fans first got a taste of the action at WNBA […]

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Let’s Go Party: Mattel to Debut a ‘Barbie Dream Fest’ Event in 2026

If you thought Barbie Mania hit its peak in 2023, think again. The iconic doll indeed ignited a worldwide frenzy following Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film, but Barbie’s influence is entering a new era with the debut of Barbie Dream Fest in 2026.

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