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The Brief: Celebrity Dashcams and Studio Cheez
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Celebrity Dashcams, visual love letters and Studio Cheez.
CI Games Disrupts Gamescom with a Dark Fantasy Tattoo Sanctum
Fans of video game Lords of the Fallen are hard core, and CI Games knows its audience. So for the sequel reveal at Gamescom 2025, held Aug. 20-24 in Cologne, Germany, the independent video game developer and publisher brought the game’s dark fantasy world to life on the show floor with a themed activation called...
The Brief: Soda-Powered Car Washes and Financial Speed Dates
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Evolution Fresh’s Soda-Powered Car Wash, Chime’s speed-dating pop-up, ESPN’s E train takeover, an in-store Nike x Milk Makeup activation and AARP New York’s Social Security celebration.
SDCC 2025: Brawl Stars Takes Fans on a Wild Monorail Ride into the Carnival-themed Starr Park
For its first U.S. activation, mobile game Brawl Stars, developed by Supercell, went big. During San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-27, it popped up an amusement park on a floating barge on San Diego Bay, and more than 4,000 fans went through the 45-minute immersive adventure that spanned a simulated monorail ride and the carnival game-filled...