Dear Experientialists:
These are the PDFs you’ve been looking for.
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Issue #14
Three Questions: James Wallman, CEO of World Experience Organization
How Web3 Is Changing Brand Loyalty: Starbucks' is leading a paradigm shift
New Rules of Brand Building: Combining planning with experience
Memories & Transformations: Awe. Community. Transformation. Oh my!
Five Must-Haves for Modern Agencies: The experience world is changing...are you?
Notable News In Future Experiences: Get up-to-date on cutting-edge shiz
Hidden Games: The URL/IRL interplay is creating some very interesting things
Three Questions: Mark Long, CEO of Shrapnel
Back to the (Box) Office: Hollywood is green-lighting more web3 rails
Notes From an AI Conference: Free prompts inside!
Are Corporate Events Back? A new form of WFH is upon us
Getting More Direct: Yes, even mail can be an experience
Purpose and Experiential: Go beyond the "why" and focus on the "how"
Notable Ideas: Experience campaigns we are loving
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Issue #13
CMOs and the Entire Freakin’ Experience: Now Comes the Metaverse
Three Questions: John Solomon, CMO of Therabody
The Experience Progression: From Memorable to Transformative
Insight Uber Alles: Great Creative Comes from Great Strategy
Three Questions: Paul Aaron, CEO of Addition
Oh Good! NFTs Are Crashing: But Big Brands Are Building
To the Moon: Notable News in Experience and Web3
Elon’s $44B Bet on Web3: X.com Marks the Spot
POAPs: A New Tool to Grow Audiences
Good Vibrations: Sound Immersions Across the World
The End: Designing Amazing Experiences
.SWOOSH: A Phygital Playbook
New Fandom: How to Treat Customers Like Fans
Art Basel Miami: Roundup
Notable Ideas: Work We Love
Brain Food: Six studies and trends forecasts
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Issue #12
Brand Purpose Grows Up: Story-doing matters more than story-telling
NFT Projects Need IRL Utilities: Experiential agencies can help
Web3 Needs A Better User Experience: Brand-building is lacking in web3 world
The Only Cookies I Care About: An experiential stroke of genius from DoubleTree
An NFT Brand Takes Off: Moonbirds shows future projects the flight path
RTFKT's POAP Game: Participation has its rewards
To the Moon: Some big news in branded NFTs
In Web3, MX Is the New UX: There is no web3 without community
The Future of Music: Power to the people
Token-Gating: The Perk.Shop: Real-world perks for NFT brands
Notable Ideas: Stuff we like
Brain Food: Stuff we read
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Issue #11
Three Questions with Geoff Renaud: Jumping into Web3 and taking experiential with him
Trust, Community and Dopamine: The building blocks of the blockchain
Better Branding to Bridge Web2 & Web3: Here’s a hint — inclusivity
Defining The Experiential Metaverse: A humanity-centric, 4D approach is needed
To The Moon: Notable work and projects in NFT-land
Live Digital: What is it and why you need to know it
The Dao Of DAOs: There’s purpose in the madness
You Down with POAP? But WTF is a POAP?
Notable Ideas: Campaigns we love
Brain Food: Six studies to feed your mind
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Issue #10
Three Questions with Nasya Kamrat: Changing the game in the experiential agency world.
Web3 Is Our Opportunity: The metaverse is an experiential dream come true.
Purpose + Experiential: The “how” of purpose is the experience.
The Wellness Revolution Is Here: People are seeking experiences that make them better.
The Ten Laws of Experience Design: Experiential architect Alain Thys gives us some invaluable lessons.
Work We Love: From OOH to hospitality to large-than-life installations, creativity abounds.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies to feed your mind.
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Issue #9
Three Questions with Galen McKamy: The creative leader of Superplastic rules the metaverse.
We AR In: How augmented reality will lead the experience economy into the now.
This Beer Rocks: No really, it does.
From Digital to Retail: Tech giants are going old school.
Three Questions with Jessica Quiney: Australia’s top strategist is changing perceptions of experiential marketing.
So Your Brand Just Bought an NFT: Sam Ewen gives us an in-depth look at the wild, wild world of blockchain.
Three Questions with Blake Herder: A leader of one of the largest events staffing agency gives us a prognosis.
Can Someone Please Define XM?: Let’s agree to disagree
Work We Love: Innovation and creativity abounds.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies to feed your mind.
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Issue #8
Three Questions with Rob Reilly: The advertising legend drops knowledge.
Beyond Gold: This year’s Cannes Titanium winners are all about experience.
The “Invertising” Shift: The only way out is in.
Three Questions with Teresa Cesario: What’s the future of spirits marketing?
The Spirit of Experience: Micro-distilleries are going big.
Let’s Do Virtual Better: A few suggestions for virtual events.
Work We Love: Innovation, purpose and creativity abounds.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies that feed your mind.
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Issue #7
Three Questions with Krista Hansen: GMR'S ECD gives us the scoop on the change that's needed.
Time to Get Weird: Consider hiring the oddballs and weirdos.
Amazing Experiences: Work that does some heavy lifting.
Three Questions with Scott Burns: The creative leader at GPJ gets real with us.
Doing It On Purpose: The future of live events requires more meaning, less schtick.
The Four Shits: Pardon the profanity, this shit is serious.
Experience Debrief: James Wallman takes us inside The Kindling Hour.
Three Questions with Floyd Hayes: A creative's creative, he's invented the emotional support beer.
Work We Love: Innovation, purpose and creativity abounds.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies that feed your mind.
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Issue #6
Three Questions with Ian Murray: Rethinking how marketers think and calling B.S. on long-held assumptions.
Badass Mother-Truckers: The future of experiential is trucking awesome.
The Legitimacy Problem: The industry must get better at being bigger, says Claus Raasted.
Empathy At Scale: How purpose and experience will shape the Transformation Economy.
The Model for Hybrid Experiences: From the mind of Joe Pine, the blueprint for the next thing in experiences
A Tale of Caution: The anonymous confessions of an agency CEO.
Emily In Paris Gets XM’ed: Judd Katz shows us just how experiential is tres chic.
Three Questions with Big John: The event marketing legend is building a community.
Work We Love: Activations that blend purpose and experiential nicely.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies that you should have, read and reference.
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Issue #5
Three Questions with Chris Dobson: The design experience impresario talks about the transformative period we are entering.
Retail: Wagging the Dog: The future looks experiential.
Experience This, ‘Rona: Creativity in the time of COVID.
Too Cool For School: Is talent the answer to our problems?
Three Questions with Farah Brigante and Treasure Neal: The team behind the inspiring work of Inspira.
5 Big Things for XM: The emerging tenets for experiential marketing to survive and thrive.
Brain Food: 6 massive studies that you should have, read and reference.
Work We Love: Activations that blend purpose and experiential nicely.
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Issue #4
The Case for the Experiential Supergroup: Rumors of a merger of Octagon, Jack Morton and Momentum raise our eyebrow.
The Antidote to the Social Dilemma: Time to pick a fight. You in?
The Normal Is Sustainable: Actionable steps to get a lot better at being better to our planet.
Brain Dump: 6 massive studies that you should have, read and reference.
Work We Love: Activations that blend purpose and experiential nicely.
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Issue #3
Three Questions with Afdhel Aziz: Mixing purpose with experiential.
Are We Diverse Enough? Ad agencies are releasing D&I data. How do experiential agencies compare?
Story-telling. Story-doing. Story-being.: Brand marketing is evolving. Are you?
Graffiti Is Experiential: Trust us, you need to know more about street art.
Work We Love: A roundup of amazing innovation all around us.
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Issue #2
Three Questions with B. Joseph Pine: The godfather of the Experience Economy gets deep.
Experiential Is Now Political: The simplest solution is, well, the simplest.
Trim the Fat, Cut the Shit: Forget the big productions. The dollars aren't there. You need to be more nimble than you are right now.
The Perilous Plot of Pot Marketing: Cannabis experiential sucks. Here's why.
Is Brand Experience Worth It? It is if it helps or inspires.
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Issue #1
The New Connected Experience: Mixing digital and physical is a must. Here’s how.
Think Local, Act Local: A focus on local and community curation will drive a lot of brand and marketing activations.
Experiential Everywhere: An overlooked announcement from Starbucks has major repercussions for experiential marketing.
Curate or Perish: What does curation have to do with experiential marketing? Pretty much everything.
Overheard on Zoom: So many great conversations, so little time.
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The Interview Issue
B. JOSEPH PINE
ROB REILLY
KRISTA HANSEN
GALEN MCKAMY
AFDHEL AZIZ
NASYA KAMRAT
GEOFF RENAUD
JESSICA QUINEY
BRETT HYMAN
PAUL AARON
BLAKE HERDER
SCOTT BURNS
JOHN SOLOMON
CHRIS DOBSON
TREASURE NEAL
FARAH BRIGANTE
TERESA CESARIO
IAN MURRAY
BIG JOHN KRISHAK
FLYOD HAYES
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The Experientialists is co-created by top experts working in the Experience Economy. It is edited by Max Lenderman.