Trade Shows
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B-to-B Events
Field Report: Top Exhibits at Design & Construction Week 2025
If you’re tired of designing exhibits within the confines of a brand’s colors, you’ve got to come to Design & Construction Week 2025 for inspiration, where staging, colors, finishes and lighting all come together to create impactful, visual brand stories. Design & Construction Week (DCW) that brings together the International Builders’ Show (IBS) and the […]
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B-to-B Events
The Best Bites: How Demos Cooked Up Brand Engagement at KBIS 2025
“We’re breaking the bank here with 30 dozen eggs,” joked Nick Ritchie, executive chef for the LG Signature Kitchen Suite (SKS) as he mixed a batch of Grammy’s Brownies in all their chocolatey gooeyness to showcase the brand’s new transitional wall oven series. LG revealed new branding for SKS at the 2025 National Kitchen & […]
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B-to-B Events
Five Ways Exhibitors at Toy Fair Stood out in a Sea of Playfulness
The first visual we laid eyes on at Toy Fair 2025 in New York City, held at the Javits Center, March 1-4, was a larger-than-life Rubik’s cube suspended in the air and surrounded by disco lights and bumping music. There was something about a handheld toy that has transcended generations, blown up in epic proportions, […]
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B-to-B Events
How Adyen Leaned on its Partner Ecosystem to Entice Retailers at NRF 2025
If you’re going to demonstrate the power of “unified commerce,” you’ve got to have a unified event strategy to match. Such was the case for financial technology platform Adyen, which, with the help of its merchant partners, leveraged a widespread presence at NRF 2025 to give customers and prospects hands-on experience with its omnichannel payment […]
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B-to-B Events
Swag-tivities
Event marketers are more conscious than ever about excessive waste, and that has led to all-new thinking, and engagement strategies, around a quintessential event and trade show activity: the giveaway. In fact, it’s a conversation that event marketers have been locked in for the better part of a decade—remember Hershey’s Take5 Swag Exchange campaign at […]
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B-to-B Events
Sweet Relief: Eight Ways to Build a Zen-inspired Brand Experience
The world could use a collective deep breath right about now, and brands are responding with Zen-inspired experiences designed to put consumers at ease. As marketers take cues from the sect of Buddhism, which focuses on meditation, mindfulness and maintaining a state of calm, they’re creating sanctuaries where attendees have an opportunity to get present […]
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B-to-B Events
Five Insights on Designing Impactful Keynote Programs from Panasonic at CES 2025
In a dark ballroom at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, a spark of light streams across the screens. The host, actor Anthony Mackie, approaches center stage and holds up an item: “Panasonic’s story began over a century ago with this—the double socket. This is the spark that ignited decades of innovation and passion, comfort […]
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B-to-B Events
As Trade Shows Embrace Influencers, Exhibitors are Leveling up Engagement
It wasn’t too long ago that social media influencers weren’t even considered media at trade shows and had a hard time getting press passes. Now its crucial to connect influencers and exhibitors, and the National Hardware Show, taking place March 18-19 in Las Vegas, is doing exactly that with its new NHS Influencer Summit. Building […]
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B-to-B Events
Beyond the Booth: How Exhibitors Can Leverage Restroom Real Estate
“Last night was… not exactly legal,” read a sticker placed on the mirrors in bathrooms at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center during SuperZoo 2024. Trippy images from a wild night on the town, such as dogs getting chased by a police car down the Las Vegas Strip along with portraits of the team members as […]
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B-to-B Events
Three Ways Siemens Leverages Data for High-Performance Exhibits
How can data transform a trade show exhibit into a powerful driver of brand awareness, engagement, and ROI? Siemens, in partnership with Freeman’s A/V team and agency, Sparks, brought a reimagined exhibit to CES 2025 that was based on the insights collected at its award-winning CES 2024 exhibit and throughout the year. The exhibits were […]