B-to-C Events
Canon’s ‘Portals’ Pop-up Teaches Consumers How to Snap Better Social Media Pics
In this day and age, anyone with a smartphone is deemed a photographer, but to illustrate the creative opportunities its cameras offer, Canon is delivering a hands-on photography experience to help consumers take their shooting skills to the next level. The pop-up, dubbed Canon Portals, takes attendees through six vignettes, or “portals,” designed to educate...
Lines of Engagement: How to Lessen the Pain of Attendee Wait Times
How to make the most of attendee downtime by engaging a captive audience No one enjoys waiting in line, whether they’re at the grocery store, the bank or the post office. But when it comes to events, time spent waiting in line anticipating the experience to come can be especially grueling—not to mention the boredom...
Multisensory Moments, Product Drops: Inside Reebok’s First ComplexCon Exhibit
With its steal-worthy product drops out of a box truck built into the exhibit, bright a/v concepts, multisensory elements, retro colors and infusion of archival content, Reebok made a bold debut at ComplexCon, the annual event for sneakerheads and hypebeasts put on by media platform Complex, this year Nov. 3-4 in Long Beach, CA. And...
A Convention Meets an Instagram Museum at the Sephoria House of Beauty
Customers and clients of Sephora know the beauty retailer well for its bright environment, product assortment and for its discovery-based shopping model where consumers explore and test products on their own—a different approach than that of a traditional cosmetic department store experience. For its 20th anniversary this year in the U.S., Sephora turned to experiential...