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It’s happened to just about everyone in the industry. Every detail of your outdoor event, right down to the last color-coded napkin, is in place when the weather suddenly takes a turn for the worse—and panic sets in. If you’ve been there before, we feel you. But the fact is, event marketers don’t have to […]

ESSENCE magazine and partner Toyota capitalized on the Instagram museum trend in December with #SensoryWonderland, a multisensory playground that celebrated Afrofuturism while generating buzz for the new 2018 Toyota Camry. The event amplified Toyota’s Sensations marketing campaign, which “aims to tap into drivers’ emotions and the sensations they feel behind the wheel,” says Jovanca Maitland, […]

From GIFs to Vines, today’s social media feeds are chock full of motion. Static photos have been ditched in favor of more engaging media—and brands are catching on.

From the couture-clad fashionistas of Coachella to the down-home devotees of CMA Fest, today’s large-scale music festivals attract fans from a vast range of demographics. The one thing they have in common is an unyielding passion for live music experiences, and as the value of leveraging festivals as an activation platform becomes clearer by the […]

If your experience design doesn’t spark spontaneous social sharing, did it really happen at all?