ABOUT GRADIENT

IMPACT BEAUTY REPORT 2025 – COMING SOON

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Gradient is an independently owned experiential marketing agency that designs and produces brand activations, events, and immersive marketing programs for global brands. With over 15 years of experience, we combine strategic thinking, creative development, and precision execution to create experiences that connect brands with audiences in meaningful ways.

HEARTS

HEARTS

MOVE MINDS

MOVE MINDS

IT'S NOT JUST
A PHILOSOPHY

It's how we grow businesses. We believe that hearts move minds. Telling a story is not enough, you need to live the story. And invite your consumers to live it with you.

We help brands out-impact the competition by igniting deep, authentic connections to their audience through evocative, multidimensional experiences. We ensure brands can connect to their audience on a visceral level and measure engagement and efficacy.

We deliver impactful and quantifiable results; trackable metrics, actionable data, and leverageable insights - before, during, and after production as well as in a consulting capacity.

Balance is our forte. We pair innovative ideas with rigorous process. Bold creativity with brand consistency. Our teams and projects encompass a broad range of scale, genre and style. We strive for the overlap (and synergy) of our core principles:
Pride, Collaboration, and Joy.

THE IMPACT
RESEARCH SERIES

Great experiences start with understanding people.


That belief led us to develop the IMPACT framework — Gradient’s research methodology for understanding how brands create meaningful, measurable impact through experiential marketing.


Building on that foundation, we publish IMPACT Reports, a series of industry research studies built from original surveys and interviews with marketing leaders across leading brands. Each report explores how experiential marketing is evolving across categories, grounded in real audience behavior, cultural shifts, and experience-led data.


The goal is simple: help brands stay ahead of emerging trends rather than follow them.


Download our latest IMPACT Reports

The IMPACT Framework Report

The 2026 Beauty IMPACT Report

  • NYC - 150 28TH STREET | MIAMI - 5660 COLLINS AVE | LOS ANGELES - 26 RUE DE COPERNIC | PARIS - 128 RUE DU FAUBOURG SAINT HONORÉ |

  • U.S. BASED - GLOBALLY CONNECTED | ASIA | INDIA | EUROPE | MIDDLE EAST |

OUR TEAM

Our team is 70% female and 40% diverse. Gradient is a recipient of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workplace™ Certification and the Most Women Friendly Employers™ Certification.


Headquartered in New York City, with satellite offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and Paris, our team operates globally through a flexible, remote-friendly model supported by our workspace partner Outsite.

SUSTAINABILITY

Gradient is proud to be a carbon-neutral company and to design net-zero experiential marketing programs and events.


From production planning to materials, logistics, and partnerships, we work to reduce the environmental footprint of every activation we produce—offsetting all remaining emissions through verified initiatives that support the protection of the Amazon rainforest.

RECENT AWARDS

RECENT AWARDS

AIR FRANCE | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Guerrilla Campaign

HOUSE OF SUNTORY | A' Design Award | Event & Happening Design (Silver)

MAYBELLINE | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Consumer Event Environment

NORDSTROM | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best In-Store Experience

DOM PERIGNON | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Product Launch

LEGENT | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Live or Virtual Event

CD&R | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

CHRISTIE’S | Eventex award | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Special Event

CLINIQUE | WindowsWear Awards | Best AR/VR Experience (Clinique iD)

BASIL HAYDEN | Eventex Awards | Best Virtual Alcohol Experience

LOUIS XIII | Event Marketer (likely) | Best Consumer Tour

ZTE | SABRE Awards | Gold SABRE Winner (Disrupting the Duopoly)

LUXLIFE | LuxLife Magazine | Most Innovative Experience Agency

AIR FRANCE | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Guerrilla Campaign

HOUSE OF SUNTORY | A' Design Award | Event & Happening Design (Silver)

MAYBELLINE | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Consumer Event Environment

NORDSTROM | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best In-Store Experience

DOM PERIGNON | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Product Launch

LEGENT | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Live or Virtual Event

CD&R | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

CHRISTIE’S | Eventex award | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Special Event

CLINIQUE | WindowsWear Awards | Best AR/VR Experience (Clinique iD)

BASIL HAYDEN | Eventex Awards | Best Virtual Alcohol Experience

LOUIS XIII | Event Marketer (likely) | Best Consumer Tour

ZTE | SABRE Awards | Gold SABRE Winner (Disrupting the Duopoly)

LUXLIFE | LuxLife Magazine | Most Innovative Experience Agency

AIR FRANCE | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Guerrilla Campaign

HOUSE OF SUNTORY | A' Design Award | Event & Happening Design (Silver)

MAYBELLINE | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Consumer Event Environment

NORDSTROM | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best In-Store Experience

DOM PERIGNON | Event Marketer Experience Design Awards | Best Product Launch

LEGENT | Campaign Experience Awards | Best Live or Virtual Event

CD&R | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

CHRISTIE’S | Eventex award | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Virtual Event

JAB | Eventex | Best Special Event

CLINIQUE | WindowsWear Awards | Best AR/VR Experience (Clinique iD)

BASIL HAYDEN | Eventex Awards | Best Virtual Alcohol Experience

LOUIS XIII | Event Marketer (likely) | Best Consumer Tour

ZTE | SABRE Awards | Gold SABRE Winner (Disrupting the Duopoly)

LUXLIFE | LuxLife Magazine | Most Innovative Experience Agency

RECENT PRESS

RECENT PRESS

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