Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Five Best Practices for Creating High-touch, Experiential C-Suite Events
Relationships have never been more important for businesses and the marketers supporting them. Creating access points for key customers, and bringing them behind the curtain for real talk, R&D, and connection, is a strategy Google Cloud has honed with its Customer Advisory Board program and the group’s high-touch annual board meeting. C-suite experiences are growing...
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Aura Readings
In the age of thoughtful takeaways and vibe checks, consumers are lining up to have their “energy” captured, visualized, and interpreted at events. Let’s take a reading on how personalized color assignments, once relegated to wellness fairs and spiritual subcultures, are generating personalized, shareable and slightly mystical engagement at events. But first, the Why. Unlike...
Field Report: Five Steal-worthy Ideas from the New York International Auto Show 2026
The New York International Auto Show touched down at the Javits Center in New York City, April 3-12, reminding attendees arriving at the entrance to the 126-year-old show’s exhibit halls that it’s “Not just a show. A tradition.” Show organizers reported that attendance opening weekend was up more than 25 percent, year-over-year, its highest since...
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Streetscapes
From street signs and lights to curbs and crosswalks, experience builders are borrowing inspiration from the rhythms of movement in real life within activations and trade show exhibits, creating a sense of place and an intentional journey. Let’s stop and look both ways at this accelerating design tactic. First, a look at the “why” of...