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B-to-B Events
How Wiz Traded Panic for Play at Cybersecurity Trade Shows
The doom of cyberattacks is real at security and tech trade shows, where dark colors and actors dressed as hackers dominate the show floor. It’s high stakes, high stress all the time. Wiz, a cloud-security company, flipped the script on panic with a booth drenched in pinks and purples and activations that kept chief security […]
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Ensures That Shoppable Ads Fit In Its Shows
There’s bigger fish to fry before broadcasters and streamers get bogged down in questions about QR codes and remote controls. Namely: How do TV studios guarantee that the products featured in these new made-for-TV shoppable moments are ones that viewers actually want to buy in the first place?
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Cynsiders
Retail Media Is CPG’s Quiet Revolution
By Alexandra Theriault, Chief Growth Officer, Lotame Retail media gets framed as a win for retailers. Which it is. But it’s also quietly rewriting the playbook for consumer packaged goods. For brands that never had direct relationships with customers, never owned the transaction, never got real-time data, this is the closest thing to a reset. […]
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B-to-C Events
CeraVe’s Six-city Birthday Tour Features a Giant Gift Box and Dermatologists
Skincare brand CeraVe is turning 20 and says it’s inviting all of “its friends” to celebrate. The brand is touring the country from July 29 to Sept. 14, popping up a birthday present-shaped activation in six cities: Chicago; San Francisco; Riverton, UT; Ann Arbor, MI; Tallahassee, FL; and Asbury Park, NJ. The 20 Years of […]
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Marketers
Big Green Egg Shifts to Storytelling Marketing to Modernize its Approach
Big Green Egg and Ace Hardware partner for contest giveaway to showcase neighborhood heroes. The initiative is part of the grill brand’s new way of marketing itself with lifestyle storytelling.
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B-to-B Events
10 Minutes With… Debra E. Smith, Conferences and Events Manager at Elanco Animal Health
For VMX 2025, the premier veterinary conference, Elanco wanted to reinforce its position as a global innovator in animal health with a multi-exhibit experience that showcased new products and connected with veterinary professionals in personalized, memorable ways. Designed for education and engagement, the 50×60-foot corporate exhibit featured product-focused zones with hands-on engagements and custom workstations, […]
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Cynsiders
The Reinvention of Transactional TV: From Infomercials to Shoppable Streaming
By Gary Mittman, Co-Founder & CEO, KERV.ai Let’s be real, TV has always been trying to sell us something. From the days of black-and-white soap operas (sponsored by actual soap) to late-night infomercials selling miracle knives that could cut through shoes, television has been laying the groundwork for transactional entertainment for decades. But now? Now […]
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B-to-C Events
How Disney+ Transformed an L.A. Thrift Store into a Y2K Throwback
It’s the year of the Disney throwback, and our millennial hearts are all in, from the release of “Freakier Friday” to the Jonas Brothers bringing out Demi Lovato for a “Camp Rock” reunion at MetLife Stadium. Nostalgia marketing is at the core of the first-ever Disney+ Throwback campaign, a summer-long celebration of ’90s and 2000s […]
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AI
Olyzon.tv Sees Through The CTV Chaos Using Contextual AI
When Jules Minvielle, co-founder and CEO of Olyzon.tv, launched his third ad tech startup, CTV’s rise and AI’s rewriting of ad ops were too significant to ignore, and he built it to converge the two.
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B-to-C Events
San Diego Comic-Con 2025: The Big Experiential Recap
For more than 50 years, superfans of comics, movies, gaming and other popular arts have jetted to Comic-Con International for the community, the content, the cosplay—and the experiences. During this year’s event, July 24-27, EM joined the geek squad for a three-day jaunt through San Diego and its Gaslamp District, all in search of the […]