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  • Full Coverage: The 2019 Experience Design & Technology Awards

    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 […]

  • Lincoln’s Partner-Rich Activation Capitalizes on the Low-Pressure Test Drive

    Automakers know that to get consumers to fall in love with a vehicle, they need to get them behind the wheel first. And for a luxury automotive brand like Lincoln, that means avoiding a one-size-fits-all-approach. The brand continues to lean on stylish destinations to supplement the local dealership experience and provide a low-pressure environment for […]

  • Dissecting TikTok: How Event Marketers Can Leverage the Short-Form Video App

    How brands can make magic on the red-hot social platform Step aside, Instagram. There’s a new social media kid in town, and its explosive growth shows no signs of slowing down. Meet TikTok, a social media app centered on short-form mobile videos accompanied by musical overlays and augmented reality-powered visual effects. Originally launched as Musical.ly, […]

  • Q&A: What the Rising Cost of Consumer Attention Means for Event Marketers

    A new kind of metric worth adding to your measurement toolkit Measuring the value of live events has traditionally entailed gauging dwell times and throughput, but a proprietary framework developed by Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira wants marketers to focus on a different metric: quality of attention. Teixeira, who studies the “economics of attention,” […]

  • Four Insights on How the California Consumer Privacy Act Will Impact Event Marketers

    How marketers can crack the code on California’s version of GDPR On the heels of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in 2018, marketers are now tasked with adhering to U.S. privacy regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the groundbreaking legislation will secure new […]