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The Brief: Ice Festivals and Big Rings
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover ice festivals, true crime spas and Big Rings.
Q&A: How One Event Speaker is on a Mission to Support Sober Lifestyles
Event networking experiences often revolve around the bar. Once those black-cloth topped carts roll out, it’s a signal to socialize and sip while doing it, often at the end of the day. For those who don’t drink alcohol, the bar cart can be triggering, and the timing of the networking, cumbersome. It wasn’t until Laura...
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...
How Dating Apps Are Going Offline to Combat the Loneliness Epidemic
It’s a brand-new year, and singles are taking the time to reflect, reset and restart their dating journeys with open hearts. The first Sunday in January is annually recognized as Dating Sunday, the busiest day for dating apps, and Tinder revealed the internal data to back this up: Swipe activity is nearly 20-percent higher than...