Event Marketer Sizzle: Event Trends, Interviews, and In-the-Field Coverage
09.02.26
Durable products are having their moment. An iPhone passed the ultimate drop test, having been found intact after falling 16,000 feet from an Alaska Airlines plane. And let’s not forget the Stanley cup that survived a car fire; the brand gifted the user a new Mazda! lorem ipssum
📷 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 that are disappearing, so where can people go? It’s our events.”
–Liz Lathan, Co-Founder, Club Ichi

EM Sizzle Newsletter – 9/4/2026

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📌 EM Updates
 
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