Event Marketer Sizzle: Event Trends, Interviews, and In-the-Field Coverage
08.28.26
Remember last year’s treadmill screening for “The Long Walk” movie, where viewers were removed from the theater if their pace fell below 3 mph? Lionsgate just challenged moviegoers to balance on wooden planks during an immersive screening of “Fall 2: Deadpoint.” Participants wore harnesses while standing on the planks, and they were pelted with water and had their harnesses tugged throughout.
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
It was 1999 again at Neopets’ first-ever pop-up, “Neo York,” where the online game became an IRL meetup. Attendees recovered old accounts, traded collectibles and colored pets for the Crayola x Neopets Mural Wall… Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“What are you doing to design your event so that they will get a return on friendship? How are you helping them find new people and make your events a reunion? Those third spaces are disappearing, so where can people go? It’s our events.”
–Liz Lathan, Co-Founder, Club Ichi
Making a Racket
How Brands are Acing Experiential at the US Open
A record 22-day US Open tournament is underway in Queens, NY, featuring its most comprehensive event schedule yet. Follow our rolling activation coverage… Read more.
Event Peeps Podcast
New Episode: Building an Invested Community, with Club Ichi’s Co-Founders
Liz Lathan and Nicole Osibodu delve into the evolution of their social club and how they pulled off the destination reveal for their “Secret Family Reunion” trip to New Zealand… Read more.
A Fresh Spin
5 Ways to Use Laundromats as Event Venues
Doing laundry isn’t anyone’s idea of a good time, but it’s a relatable task that has the attention of marketers aiming to deliver experiences that feel both familiar and unexpected… Read more.
Seeing Eye to Eye
How Eye Contact is the New Eye Candy
As event marketers lean into storytelling to deepen audience relationships and “drop” products into real lives, human faces are serving as design themes across show floors… Read more.
Will MomTok Survive This?
The Brief: Giant Hairballs, Munchie Marts and MomTok Battles
This week’s hot topics in experiential marketing cover Tumblehairs, the “Adults” speakeasy-bodega mashup and Bazooka’s candy battle pop-up featuring MomTok stars… Read more.
💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 
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