Kait Shea

Samsung’s First North American Flagship is the Future of Retail Standing outside the entrance to Samsung’s first North American flagship, nothing is particularly eye-catching. The façade of the building, located in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District, resembles any standard telecomm store, with its glass paneling and black accents. But with one step inside, I know I’ve […]

Southwest Airlines at Music + Ideas Festival 2016 Southwest Airlines in April helped student entrepreneurs take their business concepts “from the dorm room to the boardroom” with its title sponsorship of the Music + Ideas Festival 2016 spring tour. Aligning itself with festival creator RECESS, which launched the event in 2013, the brand aimed to showcase […]

With more than 150 consecutive sold out games and a season ticket holder waitlist of more than 20,000 fans, the Golden State Warriors aren’t exactly accessible. To help bring cardmembers closer to the NBA team, American Express on April 7 produced the first-ever live stream of a sporting event in the U.S. Showcasing the Warriors’ […]

Brands have been incorporating elements of event marketing into their brick and mortar locations for some time now, but with the opening of Samsung’s interactive flagship in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, the bar for experiential retail has officially been raised. Dubbed Samsung 837 in reference to its location on Washington Street, the 55,000-square-foot space is more […]

Where’s Waldo? From March 11-15 you could find him wandering through the South by Southwest Interactive festival (SXSWi), attracting the attention of thousands of consumers as he sported the signature red and white-striped shirt and hat from the classic children’s books of the same name. “Waldo” in this case was Wesley Faulkner, social media manager […]