(Originally published on Allied Global Marketing’s Knowledge page.)
From AI-powered personalization to AR-enhanced environments, guest expectations are rapidly evolving. In this post, I explore key takeaways from CES 2025 and how forward-thinking entertainment and hospitality brands can embrace emerging tech to create smarter, more seamless guest journeys.
The joy of having a mailing list with a few hundred recipients is that when I send out news, I get responses. Sometimes, a few hundred of them. That happened most recently when I sent out my “good news to share” missive explaining that I am cancer-free after my surgery. The only problem is that…
We had the most divine meal this evening: –Quinoa salad with mint, lime and cherry tomatoes –Roasted shiitake mushrooms –Arugula with dried cranberries, crumbled goat cheese, pistachios and balsamic vinaigrette –Steamed brussel sprouts marinated with olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic and honey –Thick slices of La Brea Bakery whole grain bread SO YUMMY!
This groovy wooden koi, which comes in assorted colors/treatments, is from one of my favorite foundries, House Industries.
Several times a year we spend the weekend with our longtime friends Steve and Sims at their home in the Upper Ojai Valley. Good food, wine and fellowship prevail, as do good photo ops! Here are a few from our stay there over the July 4th holiday weekend.
One of my favorite tv commercials ever. Done by Ogilvy & Mather, from the late 90s. The music is “Female of the Species,” by Space, from their album Spiders.
For those following along at home: this morning was my 9-month post-surgery checkup with Dr. Friedman, my amazing oncologist. He pronounced that things are coming along “perfectly” and sent me away until my one-year checkup in August. I’ll drink to that.