B-to-B Events
The Last (Sun)Dance: How Sponsors Closed Out the Festival’s Final Year in Park City
After 45 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival’s run in Utah reached its final cut. From Jan. 22 to Feb. 1, the Sundance Film Institute, industry insiders, fans and many of the sponsors that have evolved with the event over the years bid farewell to snowy Main Street. The festival will permanently move...
Field Report: Six Trade Show Booth Ideas from World of Concrete 2026
How much beer was consumed during the recent World of Concrete? That we don’t know, but hopefully it was a measurable KPI. The world’s largest concrete construction and masonry trade show brought together about 48,000 professionals to the Las Vegas Convention Cente, Jan. 20-22, as well as about 1,300 exhibiting companies, including 280 first-time brands,...
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Push Buttons
Despite the rise of touch screens and other sophisticated gaze and gesture technologies, experiential brands this year are choosing analog-style mechanisms for their activations. Think: Push buttons and turn dials that feel purposeful, participatory and nostalgic. But let’s push pause for a moment, and look back at one place where the trend bubbled up. Reddit’s...
2026 Perspectives: Brand Marketers Share What’s New, Next and ‘No Thanks’ in B-to-B Events
The class of veteran brand marketers serving as our Experiential Marketing Summit Advisory Board members are some of the industry’s most respected practitioners, and their collective expertise runs the gamut. So with the new year chugging ahead at full steam and events on a continued upward trajectory, we asked the board to share which tactics...