Agency Leaders Weigh in on Major Themes and Ideas from Cannes Lions 2025
It’s a long game at Cannes Lions. From preparing advertising and marketing programs for long-term success in the digital era to building out experiential lounges that allow audiences to explore products and services in a low-pressure, no-rush environment, festival attendees are known for soaking in content and experiences in and around la Croisette. For agency...
Agency HR Update: Creative Hires and the Fully Remote Model
For the team at agency Grow, managing talent within the experiential marketing landscape today is about finding people who are “exceptionally versatile.” In fact, it’s a guiding principle of the team’s hiring strategy. By leaning into creative roles and creative problem-solving skill sets, Anna Hogan, vp-accounts and strategy at Grow, says new hires are better...
Experiential Trend of the Week: Experiential Pit Stops
Summer means road trips are taking place all around the country, and usually, vacationers are more excited about the destination than the journey. (We’d certainly fall into that camp.) And yet brands are making a case for the rest stop as a destination of its own, transforming the highway staple into a full-blown experience. Take...
Anniversary Stories: LP Steele of POPLIFE Looks Back, and into the Future
Not every agency can say it grew out of a party, but that’s exactly where POPLIFE planted its roots 25 years ago when founder Aramis Lorie created a platform in Miami for emerging artists to perform. The platform took shape into nightlife venues bringing on Jake Jefferson, and soon the team evolved the mission into...