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Going Off Script For Better Audience Targeting
GPJ can bring every part of your brand expression to life without relying on the biggest crowd, just the right one.
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The Future of Experiential Marketing, Part 2
Recently, GPJ CEO Chris Meyer had an opportunity to discuss our agency’s recent global milestones with Ready to Melt host, Suresh Vinkat, offering a chance to talk at-large about the global trends in experiential marketing and the hottest topics that will inform event strategies in the year ahead. Here is part two of the interview. …
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The Future of Experiential Marketing, Part 1
Recently, GPJ CEO Chris Meyer had an opportunity to discuss our agency’s global milestones with Ready to Melt host, Suresh Vinkat, offering a chance to talk at-large about the global trends in experiential marketing and the hottest topics that will inform event strategies in the year ahead. Here is part one of the interview: Last …
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Limitless Potential at CES
With the first big event of 2023 behind us, the hottest tech show in the world delivered an ideal environment to tell the biggest brand stories. Attracting an audience of 115K+ strong, more brands at CES are utilizing experiential to win over audiences to the next gen, life-changing possibilities that fill the halls of LVCC. …
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GPJ Boston helps children in need
In the spirit of the season, #GPJoy takes on many forms. Guest blogger and Boston-based Senior Strategist, Jillian Berry, shares one school community’s heartfelt joy received through the selfless giving of time, talent and generosity: Written by Jill Berry, Senior Strategist, George P. Johnson When my sister started working at a new school this past …
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A Sustainable Future: Auditing the COP27
By Katherine Beck, Executive Director of Strategy for EMEA (Stuttgart, Germany) One of my first initiatives, as a core member of GPJ’s Global Green Team, was to visit the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) & attend several business side events & assess the Green & Innovation Zones surrounding the climate change conference …
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SPREADING JOY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
500,000+ kids spend time in foster care each year.100,000+ kids are waiting to be adopted.22,000+ young people age out without stable, permanent connections. At GPJ, we rally around the core idea that everything is in service of the experience. This season of giving, we’re teaming with One Simple Wish to grant wishes to children in …
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Experience Design x Hybrid
So much has been said and published now about hybrid events and their prominence in the post-pandemic world. Everyone has claimed their stake in the conversation, but the conversation must grow out of the weeds and into strategic action within our now-normal. Here’s a primer: Focus on the experience first and foremost. Across the industry, we see …
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Experience Results
It’s been amazing to see the experiential industry recover from the pandemic, taking advantage of innovation accelerated by the inability to meet in person. Our teams never stop pushing, advising, strategizing, and delivering for our clients. The results are relationships that last decades, and work that gets recognized worldwide. We’re proud to share some of …
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EXPERIENTIAL STRATEGY: Disciplined imagination should be a key part of the process
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn’t exist. Azar Nafisi Imagination is essential in times like these. Every creative act, including strategy, begins in the imagination. Imagination isn’t effective if entirely untethered from reality–that’s just fantasy. However, with discipline and focus, the imaginal world can be brought down to earth to …
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The Future of Events, Powered by Technology
Technology has enabled event experiences, powering attendee journeys for years. It has been a long, steady evolution mixed with windows of rapid innovation driven by adoption of new technologies. The pandemic accelerated technology innovation, forcing everyone to take a deep look at how technology can truly drive experiences. As a result, we’ve hit a turning …
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The Colors in Between: Inclusive Experiences of Pride
At GPJ, we believe inclusion enables growth. Diversity fuels innovation. Equity ensures that every voice is valued and heard. When we show up as our authentic selves, we create beautifully authentic work. As we’ve grown, we’ve learned that we need to be intentional in creating an environment that values each person and their unique background–race, …
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Engaging Hearts and Minds With Disruptive Experiential Marketing
What was the last brand experience that caught your attention…and we mean really captivated and stuck with you? Chances are, it was something unexpected, something that grabbed you in a way that was creative, surprising, and engaging – ideally, while still authentic to the brand. Disruptive experiential marketing traverses in-person, digital, hybrid and now even …
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Experiential Agency GPJ Acquires German-Based Boutique Design & Experience Design Studio The Sane Company
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — George P. Johnson (GPJ), the world’s leading event and experience marketing agency, announced that it has acquired the German-based boutique design and experience design studio The Sane Company. This latest acquisition shows the strength of GPJ’s commitment to the German and European markets while also …
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Unboxing Experiential Marketing
Experiential marketing is not just the big secret behind brand engagement, but brand success itself. In most industries, the big players have incorporated some form of experiential into their marketing strategy. Brands like Bud Light and Under Armour, who have long elevated their marketplace presence through experiential, make a strong case for other CPG brands …
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The Gift of Experiences
While many are still pondering gift exchanges and filling out their wish lists, consider giving the gift of an experience. No stranger to the power of experiences, we’ve seen that the gifts that stay with us aren’t always material goods, but the emotions and memories created from activities that move us, teach us or …
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Giving Close to Home for the Holidays
Even as our world becomes more and more global and connected, so too do we connect to our closest communities and people. This year, each of our North America offices chose a nonprofit (or more than one) to give to that is near and dear to that office and community. Below are the organizations that …
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Live From Your Event: Cinematic Streaming
GPJ has been producing digital events and streaming for over a dozen years, with clients like Cisco, IBM, Dodge and Rodan & Fields. We’ve helped bring content to our clients’ customers wherever they are, and tailored to the medium and audience, whether it was a product launch, a sales meeting or a B to B …
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Experiential Agency GPJ Invests in Full-Service Creative Video Agency NOMOBO
The investment is part of GPJ’s commitment to creating immersive, transformative and high production value broadcasts in an era where hybrid is king. Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States (September 15, 2021) – George P. Johnson (GPJ), the world’s leading event and experience marketing agency, announced that it has acquired a significant minority stake in …
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GPJ: Building Brand Stories That Deliver Results
fab·ri·ca·tion: The action or process of manufacturing or inventing something We Build Brand Stories World-class fabrication embodies everything from strategy and design, to the architecture and environment, masterfully coming together to tell a brand’s story. GPJ’s expertise dates back over a century, transforming ordinary spaces into extraordinary stories. The transformation can be seen with Dreamforce, …
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The Industry Had to Innovate, We Answered the Call
We’ve been keeping busy with our clients. Just because we couldn’t reach people in-person for parts of the year, that didn’t stop us from crafting new opportunities to engage, surprise and delight. With 2021 nearly behind us, our clients and teams worldwide are getting recognized and the award-winning digital and hybrid work speaks volumes to …
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10 Ways to Make Networking More Successful in Online Events
By Jonathan McCallum, VP & CSO—GPJ United Kingdom For centuries the process of ‘the sale’ has been facilitated by the power of a face-to-face moment. It’s proved a lot harder in a ‘virtual,’ or online environment. Here are 10 ways which may help redress the balance. An exit strategy, or process, is a founding principle …
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Leading the Way: GPJ’s Health and Safety Team
Contributors to this post include (L-R): Denise Croden, Executive Director, Integrated Production, Geng Giminski, Senior Event Manager, Veronique Bredas, Event Producer, John Tulloch, SVP, Global Account Director The health and safety of our teams, clients, partners and attendees has always been a top priority at GPJ, but in 2020, what that looked like …
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The Real VIPs: The GPJ Special Experiences Team
Featuring Jennifer Lawson, VP Integrated Production The GPJ Special Experiences team is made up of diverse individuals who bring their various backgrounds, expertise and unyielding passion to create and execute immersive experiential environments with high production value. We offer white-glove, unique special experiences and we love what we do. We’re the specialized team that manages …
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