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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 […]

  • Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: 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 […]

  • Meet the 2025 B-to-B Dream Team

    It began with a mission: “If Event Marketer started its own brand, here’s who we’d hire.” And in the nine years since we reimagined our Dream Team recognition program to focus solely on b-to-b event marketers, we’ve established quite the corporation. This year, we add 12 more professionals to our roster, and we’re introducing you […]

  • 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 […]

  • B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

    When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get Shit Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it.