Festivals & Fan Cons

Steal these fresh consumer engagement ideas for your superfan experiences Attendance at San Diego Comic-Con was healthy, the convention’s most prolific experiential brands showed up and the creative was enough to make this seasoned industry reporter swoon. Overall, this year’s Comic-Con passed our pulse-check and served up plenty of return-to-live trends we expect to see […]

When Comic-Con announced its grand return to in-person this year, EM wasted no time booking a flight to San Diego to see what brands had in store for attendees of the pop culture extravaganza after a three-year hiatus. And we weren’t disappointed. Join us for a video tour through the top brand activations that took […]

FX Networks’ “Fearless” mantra served as a call to action at San Diego Comic-Con this year, where the brand invited brave souls to explore a 100,000-square-foot walkable labyrinth filled with twists, turns and terrors. Located across from the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, the immersive footprint wove some of FX’s most popular series together into a […]

In a departure from the standard food truck, cart or kitchen, JUST Egg is dropping a colorful, neon “sampling lab” on music festival grounds across the country, inviting hungry artists and attendees to experience a culinary escape with its plant-based egg product. The summer sampling program debuted at Broccoli City in Washington, D.C., May 7-8, […]

We hatched dragon eggs. We had our personal and work lives “severed.” We danced in a vampire night club. Only at San Diego Comic-Con do these kinds of phrases make sense. And EM was lucky enough to be on the ground this year for the pop culture tentpole’s grand return to in-person. After a three-year […]