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.
  • #ShowUsYourPackage: Trolli and ‘Deadpool’ Parody a High-Fashion Photo Shoot

    When two tongue-in-cheek brands team up to deliver a campaign called #ShowUsYourPackage, you know it’s going to turn heads. And that’s exactly what “weirdly awesome” candy brand Trolli and the marketers behind the “Deadpool” movie franchise did in New York City’s Times Square on May 7. To promote “Deadpool 2” and Trolli’s new Sour Brite […]

  • EventTech 411: Wearable Smart Badges

    From the creators of EventTech, the industry’s largest learning lab on event technology and live events, we bring you EventTech 411, our periodic roundup of effective event technologies. In this installation, we take a look at the smart badge market. As wearable technology continues to advance, a growing number of event marketers are leveraging the latest […]

  • 10 Esports Insights from Nielsen’s Games 360 Report

    As the esports industry continues to grow, it’s more important than ever to understand the gaming community’s core values and attitudes, and where brands can insert themselves to deliver on their needs. In Nielsen’s ninth annual Games 360 Report, insights on gamer behavior and economic trends abound. Including the fact that in 2018, two-thirds (66 […]

  • How the H2O+ Beauty Oasis Changed the Landscape for Stagecoach Activations

    Coachella is renowned for the host of luxe brand experiences it attracts to the desert each year. The kind that take place at posh mansions and sprawling estates, draw scores of influencers and A-list celebrities and create a near-impossible level of FOMO. But Stagecoach Festival, which takes place just one week later in Indio, CA, […]

  • Menu-Inspired Photo Ops Keep Influencers Sharing at McDonald’s Coachella Event

    Coachella isn’t really Coachella without the host of swanky, off-site pool parties and late-night soirees that take over the desert each year, and the sixth annual Bootsy Bellows Pool Party presented by McDonald’s and PacSun was once again one of the hottest tickets in town. Celebrities and influencers who let their hair down at the […]