Tag: women in events

Ladies, we’re a week out from Women in Events Week, our nationwide, multi-day program designed to connect, inspire and acknowledge women in event marketing. Are you ready? If you’re new to our program, the story began a decade ago when Event Marketer launched its Women in Events Special Report, an annual feature that over the […]

Before ball pits and Instagram museums were making mainstream news, experiential marketers were carefully chipping away at strategies to engage the once dismissed millennial generation. Armed with insights that millennials craved experiences over things—shared experiences, especially—brands recognized a pathway for engagement through experiential programs. The Case Foundation’s latest Millennial Impact Report details 10 years-worth of […]

We came. We saw. We sunburned. EM’s first Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is in the bag, and we’ve learned plenty. Thousands of advertisers, marketers and creatives hailing from nearly 100 nations descended upon the French Riviera June 17-21 seeking creative inspiration, business opportunities and, if we’re honest, booze. It attracts a crowd that […]

Experiential marketing is an industry that has always skewed female. It’s not unusual to find entire event departments that are staffed and run by women. Yet despite this unique gender bias across many brand organizations and agency teams, woman-owned agencies are still few and far between. Indeed, while many of the 100 agencies on Event […]

We know it’s cliché to say, “You’ve come a long way, baby,” but, women in events—you’ve come a long way. Fifty years ago, the only role women had in events was sitting on top of a car at the annual auto show.