Kait Shea

Kait joined EM in 2015 and today enjoys her role as senior editor and manager of digital content. When she’s not in reporter mode, rocking mermaid pants at Comic-Con or running laps at MWC Barcelona, you can find her hanging out with her dogs or singing too loudly at a music festival.
  • Take our Photo Tour of Pandora’s ‘Nuestro Sound’ Event, Presented by Target

    Providing free, curated experiences for its listeners has always been part of Pandora’s event playbook, but the brand recently upped the ante by partnering with Target, which served as presenting sponsor of the brand’s Nuestro Sound experience for 440 Pandora listeners in the Los Angeles area. The Latin-infused event, held in December at Candela La […]

  • Eight Ways Musicians are Leveraging Pop-ups to Connect with Fans

    The allure of the pop-up has permeated a new industry: the music biz. Artists from Slipknot to Madonna to Britney Spears are leveraging pop-ups to hype new tours, engage fans and push merchandise in an era when album sales are no longer a musician’s bread and butter. Some feature brand partners, many include interactive experiences […]

  • The Power of Experiential—10 Brand Executives Weigh in

    In a few short weeks, we’ll be announcing the full program for the Experiential Marketing Summit, our annual conference where event marketers immerse themselves in winning strategies, trends and technologies for their marketing teams. And while experiential has become something of a buzzword over the past few years, in the last two decades, event profs […]

  • B-to-B Dream Team Archive: Eight Insights on Building a Customer-Centric Event

    The 2020 B-to-B Dream Team call for nominations is underway through Jan. 23 Business event strategies have historically been built around what a brand wants to relay to its audience, but ask any event marketer about b-to-b tactics today, and most of them will tell you the tables have turned. Indeed, a customer-centric approach that […]

  • Content Design: Facebook’s Event Marketing Manager on the Brand’s ‘Boost’ Program

    As the world’s third-most visited website, you could say Facebook knows a thing or two about growing a business. And over the last few years, the multi-billion-dollar company has been paying that knowledge forward with a suite of free tools and training events for small and medium businesses (SMBs) called Boost with Facebook. The global […]