How To Run a Virtual Holiday Party Employees Won’t Skip | DJ Will Gill
Most virtual holiday parties get skipped for the same reason most virtual meetings do. They are 60 minutes on a Zoom grid, hosted by a People Ops manager reading off a checklist, with an awkward "everyone share something you are grateful for" round that takes 22 minutes and pulls the ...
How To Use Live Polling at Corporate Events Without Killing Momentum | DJ Will Gill
Live polling at a corporate event is supposed to make the room feel alive. Most of the time, it does the opposite. The host says "scan the QR code," the room digs out their phones, half the audience misroutes to airplane mode, the other half is still hunting for their ...
How To Run a Game Show Format at a Corporate Event (Without Cringe) | DJ Will Gill
Almost every company has lived through the cringeworthy version of a corporate game show. A junior manager with a tucked-in polo reads questions off an iPad. The "teams" are whatever table you happened to sit at. The prize is a $10 gift card and the right to wear a foam ...
How To Open a Conference Keynote Block Without Losing the Room | DJ Will Gill
Most keynote blocks are lost in the first sixty seconds, and the speaker is usually the last person in the room to know it. Princeton research on social perception found that people form trait judgments about a stranger in roughly one-tenth of a second of seeing their face. By the ...
Virtual Emcee or Traditional Emcee? The 2026 Format Guide | DJ Will Gill
The virtual emcee vs. traditional emcee framing is already slightly out of date for 2026. Most corporate events today aren't strictly virtual or strictly in-person. They're some version of hybrid: a main in-room audience plus a remote attendee feed, a hybrid all-hands with regional offices joining via livestream, a virtual ...
How Much Does a Corporate Event Emcee Cost in 2026?
A corporate event emcee in 2026 typically runs $2,500 to $25,000 per event, with most professional bookings clustering between $3,500 and $12,000, depending on experience, event type, location, and scope. The hourly-rate framing that some planners come in with ("what's your hourly fee?") doesn't actually match how corporate emcees are ...
Best Outfits for Event Emcees on a Budget (2026 Guide)
An emcee's outfit is decided before they say a word. Princeton research by Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov found that people form an impression of a stranger's face in roughly 100 milliseconds, and longer exposures barely change those judgments. By the time the emcee picks up the mic and opens ...