AMERICAS – Organisers of two of the biggest comic conventions in the US are battling it out over the use of the words ‘Comic Con’.

Eventbrite, the global self-service ticketing and event discovery platform, today announced the hiring of Laurent Sellier as its vice president of product. Sellier will oversee and drive the strategy behind Eventbrite product, including the company’s ticketing and registration technology for organizers, and innovative mobile and web consumer products that enable people everywhere to discover relevant […]

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Event Production Show and International Confex are offering all confirmed exhibitors two complimentary places at the Exhibitor Masterclass, hosted by the AEO, taking place at the NEC on 4th September 2014. The Exhibitor Masterclass will feature help on exhibition performance from disciplines such as digital and data, human behaviour, sensory marketing and sales psychology. The […]

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Nivea has appointed global brand experience agency Jack Morton Worldwide to create a live brand experience, extended through social media, as part of Nivea’s #smoothermornings campaign.  The nationwide multi-channel campaign for Nivea In-Shower Moisturiser also spans TV, Digital, PR and advertorial content for which Nivea is working with FCB Inferno, MEC, AKQA and Porter Novelli.  […]

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Working with marketing agency Arnold KLP and creative production agency DesignScene, XL Video have supplied an LED video wall for the Volvo V40 promotional roadshow currently being shown in some of the UK’s largest shopping malls. Through June and July 2014, the promotional display featuring the LED video wall visited the Bullring in Birmingham, Metro […]

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EUROPE – The ITE Group has signed a cooperation agreement with the Sverdlovsk regional government, laying the foundations for further growth in Russia.

Interactive planning technology enhances quick conference planning

Due to continuing success in 2014, experiential agency Kreate has brought on Lauren du Mont to support Staffing Team Leader, Alex Birley, with the management and logistics of the company’s growing Staffing Team. Lauren brings with her over two years of staffing and account management experience from her time spent at agencies Highjam and StaffWarehouse, bringing Kreate’s Staffing team’s combined promotional […]

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