Kait Shea

Kait joined EM in 2015 and today enjoys her role as senior editor and manager of digital content. When she’s not in reporter mode, rocking mermaid pants at Comic-Con or running laps at MWC Barcelona, you can find her hanging out with her dogs or singing too loudly at a music festival.
  • Photo Tour: Audi Russia Transforms an Auto Launch into a Three-act Circus

    Automotive launch events are designed to dazzle audience members, often taking the shape of a stage presentation and flashy reveal moment, but Audi Russia flipped the standard format on its head to introduce its new compact SUV, the Q3. Straying from the typically buttoned-up auto launch, the brand transformed its event into a three-act circus, […]

  • Reebok’s ComplexCon Booth Sends Attendees to an Ice Cream Shop on the Moon

    Exclusive merchandise is what draws attendees to ComplexCon Long Beach each year, so it makes sense that many sponsors design their booths to push product. But with a young demographic to engage and plenty of downtime during the convention, Reebok this year went all-in on the experiential components of its booth in addition to offering […]

  • College Marketing: Hyundai Drives a Sustainability Message at Three Campuses

    Climate change and environmental sustainability are hot-button topics that marketers can’t ignore, particularly when it comes to engaging younger generations. It’s a fact not lost on Hyundai, which on Nov. 22 wrapped its Fill it Forward college marketing campaign, part of its broader Drive the Future: A Hyundai Experience initiative. The program, which promoted water […]

  • 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,” […]