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  • Field Report: Top Exhibits at Design & Construction Week 2025 

    If you’re tired of designing exhibits within the confines of a brand’s colors, you’ve got to come to Design & Construction Week 2025 for inspiration, where staging, colors, finishes and lighting all come together to create impactful, visual brand stories. Design & Construction Week (DCW) that brings together the International Builders’ Show (IBS) and the […]

  • The Best Bites: How Demos Cooked Up Brand Engagement at KBIS 2025

    “We’re breaking the bank here with 30 dozen eggs,” joked Nick Ritchie, executive chef for the LG Signature Kitchen Suite (SKS) as he mixed a batch of Grammy’s Brownies in all their chocolatey gooeyness to showcase the brand’s new transitional wall oven series. LG revealed new branding for SKS at the 2025 National Kitchen & […]

  • Five Ways Exhibitors at Toy Fair Stood out in a Sea of Playfulness

    The first visual we laid eyes on at Toy Fair 2025 in New York City, held at the Javits Center, March 1-4, was a larger-than-life Rubik’s cube suspended in the air and surrounded by disco lights and bumping music. There was something about a handheld toy that has transcended generations, blown up in epic proportions, […]

  • How Adyen Leaned on its Partner Ecosystem to Entice Retailers at NRF 2025

    If you’re going to demonstrate the power of “unified commerce,” you’ve got to have a unified event strategy to match. Such was the case for financial technology platform Adyen, which, with the help of its merchant partners, leveraged a widespread presence at NRF 2025 to give customers and prospects hands-on experience with its omnichannel payment […]

  • Swag-tivities

    Event marketers are more conscious than ever about excessive waste, and that has led to all-new thinking, and engagement strategies, around a quintessential event and trade show activity: the giveaway. In fact, it’s a conversation that event marketers have been locked in for the better part of a decade—remember Hershey’s Take5 Swag Exchange campaign at […]