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B-to-B Events
Seven Tunnel Ideas for Staging the Trade Show Exhibit Experience
A wave of particles whisking you along, favorite characters close enough to touch, precious artifacts and soothing waves…tunnels and other types of staged liminal space may be an established element in trade show exhibits but new LEDs and evolving tech are offering new storytelling opportunities, and brands are going all in. From an enticing invitation […]
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Field Report: Six Showstopping A/V Exhibit Displays from InfoComm 2024
Powerful, bright, sometimes surprising, sometimes awe-inspiring, and very smart. The newest audiovisual solutions dazzled at InfoComm 2024, the trade show for the pro a/v industry that brought almost 37,000 attendees to the Las Vegas Convention Center, June 12-14. From kinetic LED walls to intricate projection mapping, there was plenty of design inspiration and wish-list-building on […]
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Field Report: Top Booth Builds at Licensing Expo 2024
From Sonic the Hedgehog to monster trucks to museum art, the Licensing Expo showcased the best in IP and brought together more than 12,000 international attendees as well as 5,000 brands to Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, May 21-23. While most of the brand’s footprints are leveraged for meeting space, there’s still plenty […]
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Five Playful Exhibit Activations from Licensing Expo 2024
Play is serious business at the Licensing Expo that brought together more than 12,000 retailers and 5,000 brands to Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas on May 21-23. So, it only makes sense that immersive, interactive and just plain delightful play was key to many of the exhibits at the show, setting the stage […]
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Q&A: 10 Minutes with Keri Ibbitson of Philips
It wasn’t until Keri Ibbitson took what she thought was a step back early in her career did she discover everything that marketing is in the corporate world, and the impact of trade shows and events on a brand’s overall success. In her role as regional lead-events at Philips, Ibbitson drives strategy for a variety […]
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RSAC 2024 Roundup: Mirrors, Robot Cocktails and Sumo Wrestlers
RSA Conference brought together more than 41,000 attendees and 600 exhibitors to Moscone Center in San Francisco, May 8-10. The premier event for cybersecurity explored the next evolution of AI and the ethics and guardrails around it, security and privacy by design, and the impact on international policy of rapidly expanding technology. “A collaborative mindset […]
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Exhibit Case Study: Inside Dematic’s Use of Immersive Media at MODEX 2024
For MODEX 2024, the premier supply chain trade show that took place in Atlanta in March, Dematic, a company that designs, builds and supports intelligent automated solutions, looked to find a showstopping way to present the company’s innovative solutions that help supply chain companies solve their business challenges. On a show floor traditionally full of […]
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B-to-B Events
Meet the All-Stars: The 2024 B-to-B Dream Team
Eight years ago, we reimagined our long-running Dream Team program to focus on b-to-b event and trade show marketers in spaces that, at the time, we said were “home to a virtual revolution in new formats, fresh thinking and trends.”
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EMS 2024: Five Takeaways for Trade Show Exhibit Experiences
If standing room only was any indication, leveling up trade show activations was a hot topic for attendees of the “Trade Show Exhibits X Experiential = The Future” master class that kicked off the 2024 Experiential Marketing Summit, held April 24-26 at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. The afternoon session featured a “Beyond Booths” session […]
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Six Exhibit Engagement Trends from NAB Show 2024
With artificial intelligence and the creator economy in the spotlight, the 2024 NAB Show brought together more than 61,000 attendees and 1,300 exhibitors in the broadcast, media and entertainment industry together at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 13-17. “We’re blown away to see over half of our attendees this year experiencing NAB Show for […]
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