The Gaming and Esports Playbook Part 1: The Gaming Universe
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The Gaming and Esports Playbook Part 1: The Gaming Universe

By Wayne Leonard, Vice President, Account Director – Gaming & Esports Our team has been working in gaming and esports for over two decades. From launches and trade shows to broader marketing and tournaments, we love engaging with this passionate, creative and special fan base across the globe. As the world has gone digital this summer, we’ve …

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A Key to Resilient Experiential Marketing: Virtual Events
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A Key to Resilient Experiential Marketing: Virtual Events

Chris Meyer is CEO of GPJ. Your event has been cancelled. Today it’s coronavirus, tomorrow it could be something completely different. Disruptive or catastrophic events aren’t new for those of us in the event industry—whether it’s a budget cut or a public health crisis, it’s these circumstances that push us towards innovation. Heading up one …

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Key Experiential Trends for the New Decade
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Key Experiential Trends for the New Decade

(Article originally appeared in Forbes) Scott Kellner, VP of marketing for GPJ provides an overview of a few key trends that are making waves and providing value for global brands. Looking for a big bet to make next year? I believe experiential marketing is going to take center stage. The 2010s were the age of …

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The Craft Is in Our DNA
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The Craft Is in Our DNA

GPJ’s history of creating and delivering powerful brand experiences reaches far and deep. We pioneered the development of the auto show exhibit and our history of quality and excellence continues to drive the experiential industry forward.  Our fabrication capabilities, skilled workforce, streamlined processes and vast network of supplier partners are second to none.  For over …

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The New Age of Experiential Retail
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The New Age of Experiential Retail

It’s Time for Brands to “Meet & Greet” the Consumer Audience of Today Rodrigo Espinosa, VP, NA/LA Growth & Development Passionate advocate for the human brand. Integrated marketing strategist with experience in purpose driven brands, sponsorship, social media, sustainable practices and experiential marketing. 20 years in the business. Brand strategy and marketing have changed dramatically …

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Design Great Brand Experiences with Story-living
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Design Great Brand Experiences with Story-living

Sharon Ricketts & Doug Schultz, Strategy and Planning Sharon is an award-winning integrated marketing strategist with emphasis in experiential, digital, brand entertainment, public relations, content and sponsorships; Doug is a senior marketing executive known for strategically-led creative thinking that successfully connects consumers with brands. For tens of thousands of years, humans have been wired for …

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Experiential Marketing
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Experiential Marketing

Scott Kellner, VP of Marketing Scott is vice president of marketing at GPJ, with experience in marketing automation, public relations, advertising, product positioning, lead generation, SEO/SEM, sales management and executive leadership. Experiential Marketing is the Antidote to Interruptive Messaging In an era of brand message bombardment, creepy data-driven retargeting and an increasing number of methods …

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Event Management
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Event Management

Picking the Right Event Management Agency Doesn’t Have to be Tricky We get inquiries every day from both established and emerging brands seeking to find a trustworthy and capable event marketing partner. The people we speak with often have a good idea about what the problem is (they’re overwhelmed by the complexities of planning and …

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Top 10 Reasons Why GPJ is #1
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Top 10 Reasons Why GPJ is #1

We prove ourselves every day. On every project. That hunger has driven us to some great places: from developing the Experiential Marketing industry’s first global strategy practice, to creating the first complete experiential analytics ecosystem. But that’s not all. See for yourself… 1-DATA/DIGITAL. We have the industry’s best ROI and analytics tool, the GPJ Experiential …

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These Technologies Make B2B Events Rich with Data
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These Technologies Make B2B Events Rich with Data

The below copy was lifted from eMarketer. To see the original article, click here. An interview with Kurt Miller, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning at George P. Johnson Experience Marketing May 15, 2017 Once just an opportunity to network or get some facetime with existing and potential customers, business-to-business (B2B) events are now …

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How GPJ Became a Best Place to Work, with Taylor Tanghe
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How GPJ Became a Best Place to Work, with Taylor Tanghe

As a Talent & Culture Manager at George P. Johnson Experience Marketing, Taylor Tanghe focuses on two main things: retaining the very best talent in the industry to work for this world-class company, and fiercely protecting a great agency culture for current GPJ employees. So when Event Marketer named GPJ a Best Place to Work, …

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Winning Hearts (and Hardware), One Experience at a Time
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Winning Hearts (and Hardware), One Experience at a Time

In recent months, GPJ has been recognized regionally (Austin American Statesman) and nationally (Event Marketer Magazine) as a Best Place to Work. That means we’re doing something right, because that recognition is a direct result of feedback from the people who know the company the best, the people who work here. When people love what …

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Talkin’ Trends with Vivian Luu
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Talkin’ Trends with Vivian Luu

Experiential marketing is not a new concept. Companies have been creating experiences that engage customers in their brands for decades. In fact, GPJ has been leading the way in experiential since our first auto shows in the early 1900s. Yet, the experiential marketing industry still feels like new terrain to many of us. The trends …

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Choosing the Right Technology for Your Event
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Choosing the Right Technology for Your Event

Augmented reality. Virtual reality. 3D printing. Oh my! With new technology concepts and tactics surfacing at a rapid pace, it can be easy to get swept up in the newest, coolest tools. But GPJ Growth & Development Director, Andy Hill, warns that marketers and event planners need to be mindful when choosing a tactic for …

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Fit & Finish: Craftsmanship Pride
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Fit & Finish: Craftsmanship Pride

Purposeful. Deliberate. Prideful. At GPJ, we only hire the best of the best. To do that, GPJ partners with various union apprentice schools to contract the most skilled students and help them to hone their craft while utilizing their creativity and knowledge of the newest fabrication techniques. GPJ has a long-standing relationship with the local …

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3 Cool Trends We Saw at the Auto Show
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3 Cool Trends We Saw at the Auto Show

1. Connecting to the architecture Honda took this consumer challenge literally, building a 100-foot LED halo (what we dubbed: the spaceship), and then taking it one step further to connect. Our dream cannons asked consumers to answer a few profiling questions, and take a selfie to pair you with a Honda product. Then, in a …

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Gone in 60 Seconds
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Gone in 60 Seconds

Some CMOs spent millions dollars of their precious marketing budgets on Super Bowl spots to create an audience lasting seconds on television and possibly longer on social channels (if they’re lucky). 2014 is the noisiest era of marketing in history. Super Bowl advertising today is a race to become cheekier, with swat teams dedicated to …

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