Trade Shows
Eight Insights on How to Succeed in the B-to-B Event Marketing Space
In our April issue, we will feature our picks for the 2016 B-to-B Dream Team—the event marketers we’d hire if we were building our own brand. From organizing global conferences to handling trade show strategy and overseeing internal meetings, this year’s Dream Team does it all and does it so well, they’re setting the standard...
Budweiser Revitalizes its Wholesaler Meeting
Budweiser turned the Anheuser-Busch 2016 Wholesaler Sales & Marketing Communication Meeting (SAMCOM) on its head this year with a two-day “Bud World” activation, offering attendees a bolder, more immersive event platform that steered away from the standard conference model. In recognition of its most successful year in over a decade, the brand on Jan. 25...
Inside Hearst Men’s Group’s Trade Shows Activations
The Detroit Auto Show may have always been a key stop for editors at Hearst Men’s Group publications Esquire, Popular Mechanics, Car and Driver and Road & Track. But for this year’s show Jan. 11-24, instead of simply covering it, the publisher for the first time activated at it, staking its claim as an authority...
How Lowe’s Built a ‘Village’ with Half the Booth Space at CES
Lowe’s Home Improvement store returned to CES 2016 in Las Vegas to showcase its Iris smart home solutions with an evolved concept: a village. The retailer last year erected a life-like suburban home, yet despite having half the booth space and half the budget to work with this year, the brand activated a larger marketing...