Rachel Boucher

Exhibit industry news for corporate trade show marketers, featuring intel on research, trends, and company updates. Celebrate Global Exhibitions Day The world’s top exhibition organizers, Clarion Events, Comexposium, Emerald, Informa, and RX, joined forces on June 4 to celebrate the 10th edition of Global Exhibitions Day (GED). Under the theme “Exhibitions Unleash Potential,” the milestone […]

Caterpillar’s story at Bauma, which takes place every three years at the Messe München in Munich, is primarily about scale. At this trade show for construction, building and mining machines, recently held April 7-13, the brand’s nearly 1 million square feet of booth space housed 51 larger-than-life pieces of engineering equipment available to order right […]

The “main stage” is taking on a whole new life as event marketers and their partners embrace immersive media, bold spaces and pop culture trends to showcase leaders and launches in a new light. From live-streaming to on-demand channels, these productions—the content, the set, the experience design—have to be as compelling for in-person audiences as […]

Be it the state of the economy or the fact that too fancy a splash can sometimes wash away a message, more brands are turning to service destinations for p.r. stunts. Think: Takeovers of car washes, diners and, as we saw at Coachella this year, gas stations. And that’s precisely where Indonesian brand Kopiko and […]

From its roots as a critical television advertising commitment exercise to, now, a showcase of new and returning series across linear and streaming platforms designed to dazzle advertisers’ media-buy strategies, the Upfronts today are a competitive landscape. For many brands, it’s an opportunity (or an imperative) to break away from a traditional presentation format and […]