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  • NRF 2025: Five Exhibit Design Trends from Retail’s Big Show

    While the show floor at NRF 2025 was abuzz with talk of AI agents and retail media networks earlier this week, EM arrived at New York City’s Javits Center to explore how some of the world’s biggest retail brands approached exhibit design and engagement at the National Retail Federation’s “Big Show.” An estimated 40,000 people […]

  • Deepfakes and Trust: Inside Accenture’s Experience at CES 2025

    At CES 2025, Accenture invited clients and guests to explore the AI-powered future, showcasing the power of new technologies, reinvention—and trust—through experiences that broke through even at the largest tech show of the year. Just off the show floor at The Venetian Expo, the company’s branded lounge was about what’s next and how it translates […]

  • CES 2025: Five Things to Know About HERE Technologies’ Sustainability Strategy

    Designed at a precise 17-degree angle to meet the gaze of CES 2025 attendees as they entered the Las Vegas Convention Center’s West Hall, HERE Technologies’ 3,500-square-foot booth proclaimed in a banner overhead, “There’s more in HERE.” And from a design strategy perspective, there certainly was. For nearly a decade at CES, the location technology […]

  • The Brief: Toy-Sized Showrooms and Fantasy ‘Foodball’

    This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover toy-sized pop-ups, a Fantasy Foodball Pool, and live from New York, it’s The SNL50 Experience.

  • BMW ‘Shrinks’ Product Experts (and Tim Meadows) in its CES 2025 Experience

    The façade of the BMW experience at CES 2025 might have been a lock-box design, an unveiling of a top-secret announcement, and the feeling that attendees would be given exclusive access to something extraordinary. And spoiler alert: We think they did. The talk of the show this year, the experience at the Las Vegas Convention […]