Experiential Activations & Events
Brand activations and live events from concept through wrap. Pop-ups, launches, panel programmes, and the physical moments that turn a campaign from a media buy into something audiences participate in. Production-led practice with a content-capture team built in; the activation runs for days, the content runs for months.
Deliverables
- ·Creative platform + activation concept
- ·Production plan + supplier management
- ·Content capture team (motion + stills)
- ·On-site execution + management
- ·Post-event report + content distribution
Typical timeline
8-16 weeks
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Experiential work is the brand activations and live events brands use to be in the same room as the people who matter to them. The point of a live activation is rarely the activation itself. The point is the after-effect: the photos that travel, the sentence people quote at dinner, the email a journalist sends a colleague six months later asking, remember the X thing.
The brief is a moment. A launch, an industry conference, a flagship opening, a sponsorship that needs to mean something. The brief is rarely design an event. The brief is closer to use this moment to make the audience feel a specific thing they could not feel from a screen.
How we approach experiential activations & events
We design backwards from the takeaway. What should the audience remember twelve hours later, twelve days later, twelve weeks later. Concept follows the takeaway, fabrication follows the concept.
Prototyping happens in low fidelity early. Rooms can be tested with tape on a floor before they are built at scale.
The social and content layer is designed alongside the live experience, not bolted on afterwards. The audience that is not in the room is part of the design problem, not a separate brief for a separate team.
What you take away
A creative platform and activation concept. A production-ready brief covering build, AV, talent, and operations. The brand and graphic system for the activation. A content plan covering the live moment and the post-event distribution. On-site direction during build and run.
A content capture team built in by default, not contracted as an add-on the week before. The activation runs for days; the content runs for months. The post-event report documents the metrics that let the team defend the investment internally.
Engagements run eight to sixteen weeks for self-contained activations, twelve to thirty for larger productions. The work fits organisations with a moment that justifies the production investment and an audience worth gathering in person.
