Tag: ComplexCon

ComplexCon, an annual festival and streetwear convention that descends upon California’s Long Beach Convention Center each year, fuses elements of pop culture, fashion, music, sports and food for some 60,000 attendees seeking the latest drops and exclusive merch that hype culture has to offer. EM was on site this year, Nov. 2-3, to get a […]

ComplexCon Long Beach is about hype, but for its booth at the inaugural ComplexCon Chicago, July 20-21 at McCormick Place, Reebok wanted to do more than create a momentary engagement. Aiming for maximum dwell-time, Reebok nixed the “drops” and activated a 23-foot-tall SuperShot Challenge basketball game (like Pop-A-Shot) designed to engage its 18-25 target in […]

Streetwear enthusiasts live for limited-edition sneaker drops, but the events are notorious for their painfully long lines and frustrating purchase procedures. Until, that is, adidas Originals changed the game at this year’s ComplexCon, held Nov. 3-4 in Long Beach, CA. Armed with an augmented reality shopping experience featuring an autonomous checkout process, the brand aimed […]

With its steal-worthy product drops out of a box truck built into the exhibit, bright a/v concepts, multisensory elements, retro colors and infusion of archival content, Reebok made a bold debut at ComplexCon, the annual event for sneakerheads and hypebeasts put on by media platform Complex, this year Nov. 3-4 in Long Beach, CA. And […]

It’s no secret that millennials are receptive to nostalgia marketing, so when McDonald’s unveiled an adult playscape at pop culture festival ComplexCon (Nov. 4-5), it’s safe to say attendees were lovin’ it. From a tricycle racetrack to old school arcade games, the brand’s Snac ’N Play activation hit home for a host of young consumers […]