EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
08.15.25
To promote Wednesday” season two, Netflix partnered with Wendy’s to cook up a Meal of Misfortune, which includes Dips of Dread, Rest in 10-Piece nuggets, Cursed & Crispy fries and a Ravens Blood Frosty. A Wednesday’s pop-up took over a Wendy’s in Norwalk, CA, and the lines were killer. A content creator reported waiting more than four hours in line for the spooky drive-thru. Now thats dread.
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
At the Disney+ Throwback Experience, appropriately activated in a thrift store in L.A., consumers lived out their Y2K past lives and shopped via a ThredUp collab… Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“Experiential makes the campaign feel full.”
–Scott Slesinger, Director-Brand and Marketing Strategy, Disney+
Cause Marketing
Eli Lilly Brings Free Mammograms to WNBA All-Star Weekend
In partnership with Black Health Matters, Eli Lilly sponsored a community screening event via a mobile screening unit. Players were on-site to lend their voices to the cause… Read more.
Event Peeps Podcast
Listen in as the EM Editors Share Their Comic-Con Experiences
From the best swag items to run-ins with aliens, rock stars and Fun Enforcers, the EM editors recount their top San Diego Comic-Con moments in this special podcast episode… Read more.
Nostalgia Marketing
'What Dreams Are Made Of': Inside Disney's Y2K Throwback Thrift Store
To kick off a celebration of ’90s and 2000s series and films, Disney+ transformed an L.A. thrift store into Hannah Montana’s closet, Topanga’s Denim Co. and Luke’s Diner… Read more.
Marketing News
The Brief: Dive-In Theaters, Slumber Parties and Kidney Passes
Would you “give your kidney” for a festival ticket? Sweden’s Way Out West Festival offered The Kidney Pass. Plus, Whiskas’ Purradise pop-up and “Bites for Bytes” in NYC… Read more.
Executive Q&A
Celsius’ CMO Delves into MLS, Formula 1 and Music Festival Sponsorships
Following its activations at the 2025 MLS All-Star Game, Celsius sets its sights on meeting fans at F1 races and music festivals to create “emotionally connected moments”… Read more.
💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 
Nominate a Brand Marketer: Across 10 categories, The Watchlist honors the most influential brand-side experiential marketers—agnostic of age, title, tenure or level—and we’re inviting you to submit a nomination for colleagues, clients or even yourself. Free to enter, the program’s deadline to submit is Sept. 17. Start your nomination today.
 
The Best Event Designs: The call for entries is now open for the 2025 Experience Design Awards, which recognize outstanding event design, innovation and environmental creativity across consumer activations, b-to-b events and trade show exhibits. The regular deadline is Oct. 17. Submit your entry.
✉️ Contact Us
 
The Sizzle is produced by Event Marketer, the industry’s largest information resource on experiential marketing. Learn more.
 
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