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.
  • Six Brands Share Event Budget Tips for 2023

    Event marketers today are grappling with the rising cost of event services, extensive shipping delays and labor shortages. While the confluence of these circumstances might signify a perfect storm for another line of business, experiential marketing is a hardy—and nimble—industry prepared to adapt to the state of the economy without compromising the quality of the […]

  • Four Experience Design Trends We Spotted During Miami Art Week

    Don’t ask us to explain it, but mushroom installations permeated more than one event footprint at Miami Art Week. Perhaps it was a nod to a psychedelic-inspired design renaissance on the horizon, or brands’ efforts to grip the attention of the quirky crowd that the affair (hosted last Nov. 29 to Dec. 4) draws. In […]

  • Season’s Greetings: Inside Six Experiential Holiday Campaigns

    It’s that time of year. You’ve likely checked your gift list twice, have had your Spotify Wrapped on repeat and are longingly eyeing the PTO countdown on your desk. But before you take a well-deserved break, check out the strategies and tools brands used to mark the holiday season in 2022. From curated pop-ups to […]

  • Experiential at Miami Art Week: Our Tour of Brand Experiences Across the Prestigious Week-long Event

    Activation formats that work, our picks for top engagements, and three ways to relieve common pain points There’s no fan village. No sponsor zone. No epicenter where brands assemble. At Miami Art Week, blink, and you’re likely to miss more than one of the many scattered, and oftentimes secretive, activations produced across the week-long event. […]

  • How Jägermeister and the Lesbian Bar Project Blended an IRL Bar Tour with a Metaverse Activation

    An unsettling statistic for the LGBTQ+ community and its supporters: in the 1980s, there were roughly 200 lesbian bars in the U.S.; today there are just 24. So for a third consecutive year, Jägermeister teamed up with the Lesbian Bar Project, a platform designed to bring “awareness and prosperity” to America’s remaining lesbian bars, this […]