Welcome to the Experience Economy.
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 / FLOYD HAYES