Awards

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The year’s best experiential marketing campaigns Remember when? The industry, and the world, has changed significantly in four months, but in our 18th annual Ex Awards program, we offer 93 reasons to keep your chin up—and keep going. With all-new categories folded into the program designed to recognize events in every shape and form, this […]

Recognizing the best use of design, social media and technology to enhance live experiences There is a bright and booming economy to celebrate with this year’s crop of Experience Design & Technology Awards winners. Behind every winning program are partners, tradespeople, technologists, logistics gurus, architects and creatives, who, with their collective powers, build the stuff […]

For decades the industry’s largest events garnered the most attention—and our editorial spotlight. No more. Introducing Hidden Gems, the first recognition program focused on b-to-b events with less than 5,000 attendees. Coproduced with leading b-to-b event agency Cramer, Hidden Gems brings to life some of the big ideas, big creative and big thinking—shared by the […]

One of the most exciting parts of creating our annual Ex Awards feature each year is reading through the nominees’ applications and getting a glimpse of the creative processes behind the best campaigns of the year—the steep marketing challenges, the tough objectives, the resulting ideas and the execution. Hard to believe these logistics-defying, multi-layered programs […]