brand-activations
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Ryan Glick and the Business Hidden in a Coffee Break
A photograph of coffee and an outfit became a hashtag, then a café, then CNC Agency. Ryan Glick’s next job is learning how to let a company grow beyond the person who started it.
Way turns hotel experiences into a business worth booking
A snowfall, a cabana, a cooking class: each needs a booking system. Way sells the machinery that lets hospitality brands turn memorable moments into manageable businesses.
The Hashtag That Learned to Leave the Internet
Coffee 'n Clothes began as a neat little Instagram composition. Then the café closed, the feed escaped the phone, and CNC found a bigger business in making brands tangible.
The Razor That Built a 21-Year Relationship
Suzanne Lane began with little PR experience and one useful conviction: ordinary products become interesting when people understand why they matter. A women’s razor proved the point - and became a client relationship that lasted 21 years.
Unseen Heroes Learned That a Great Event Should Outlive the Folding Chairs
The Sacramento experience agency turned block parties, markets and pop-ups into civic infrastructure. Then the pandemic removed the crowds and taught it a harder lesson: making a place is not the same as keeping it.
Agency Guacamole knows beauty has to survive the shipping truck
Behind the creator posts and pink-lit parties is a surprisingly physical business. Agency Guacamole brings beauty PR, influencer relationships and the packing bench under one roof.
Artsolute Media Group and the room nobody photographs
A trade show exhibit has to do more than look good. Artsolute Media Group’s work reveals where the money goes, what deadlines force, and why a storage room can matter as much as the sign above it.
Hazy Makes the Party Part of the Pitch
A custom bar, a camping-themed product launch, a room full of budtenders: the Los Angeles production company puts cannabis brands where conversations happen.
Art of Everyone Found a Better Corporate Icebreaker: Hand the Room a Paintbrush
The Bridgeport studio guides non-artists with a laser, turns a roomful of wary guests into co-authors, and leaves the host with something better than another branded tote bag.
Figure8
Figure8 is a New York-based, experience-first development company founded by Maryellis Bunn and Manish Vora, the team behind the Museum of Ice Cream. It designs and operates 'experiums' - large-scale immersive, multi-sensory spaces built to draw people offline and into shared, playful, in-person moments. Backed by a $40M Series A at a reported $200M valuation, Figure8 builds and scales its own experiential brands while taking on commissioned activations for outside partners.