Brand activation rentals in Toronto
Brand activation rentals for Toronto and the GTA: custom-branded games, photo activations, prize wheels and interactive attractions, wrapped in your campaign by our in-house design team and staffed by our own crew.
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Experiential Marketing: Toronto & the GTA
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We’ve put together a page just for events like yours, full of ideas, inspiration and the rentals that make them unforgettable. Take a look.
Everything below is something we own, deliver and set up ourselves, for experiential marketing across Toronto and the GTA, and beyond.
However you like to work
Two ways to get a quote
Some people want to see every option first. Others would rather hand it over. Both routes end in the same place, a written quote for your experiential marketing, with no obligation.
Route one: browse
You pick, we price it
Best if you already have a sense of what you want, or you just enjoy looking. Everything we own is on the site with photos, detail and sizes.
- Shortlist anything you like as you go
- Send the list over when you’re ready
- We price it and confirm what’s free on your date
Route two: we plan it
You brief us, we propose
Best if you’d rather not start from a blank page. Tell us the basics and an event specialist builds the recommendation around them.
- Budget, date, venue and the theme you’re after
- We come back with a plan built for your space and crowd
- Change anything you like before you commit
Before you ask
Good to know
The things people usually check first, answered up front, so you can get on with planning.
- 01Minimum order
- Full-service bookings start at $1,500 + HST. Final pricing scales with your guest count and the services you choose.
- 02Delivery, setup & strike
- We deliver, set up and take everything away again. Delivery is quoted by distance: Toronto and the GTA, the Golden Horseshoe, and Canada-wide when needed.
- 03Staffing
- Games attendants, casino dealers, game-show hosts, bartenders and performers can be added to any booking, as a paid add-on quoted with your package.
- 04Insurance
- We carry a $5,000,000 liability policy and provide certificates of insurance to your venue or building at no cost.
- 05Custom branding
- Our in-house design and print team can add your logo, colours or a full wrap to photo booths, backdrops, casino felts and many of our games. Custom branding is a separate service and carries an additional fee, quoted per item.
- 06One supplier
- Over 350 rentals and services across 18 categories, so the games, décor, AV, staff and talent all arrive from one team on one invoice.
What Abbey Road brings to your experiential marketing
The experience
- Brand activations since 2008 for national agencies, internal marketing departments and Fortune-500 marketers. We’re used to working inside brand standards and approval chains.
- In-house creative, design and print: custom wraps, branded games, backdrops, prize stations, signage and one-off custom builds.
- An inventory of over 350 pieces to build from: crane games, photo and video activations, prize wheels, money machines, vending machines, carts, LED features and performers.
- We deliver, install, staff and strike at malls, festivals, pop-ups, retail launches and conference floors across Ontario.
The equipment
We own what we rent. Over 500 rentals and services across 18 categories live in our own warehouse, which is why one phone call covers the games, the décor, the AV, the staff and the talent, and why we can tell you on the spot what is available for your date. For experiential marketing, these are the categories we pull from most:
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How it works
From first call to final pack-out
Tell us about your event
Date, venue, headcount and what you want guests to walk away with. A quick call or the quote form is enough to start.
We build the plan
An event specialist recommends a mix that suits the space, the crowd and the budget, then sends you a written quote.
We deliver and set up
Our own crew brings everything in, installs it and tests it before your doors open.
We run it, then strike it
Attendants, dealers and hosts on request. When it’s over, we pack it all out.
Pathway 02: have us plan it
Tell us four things and we’ll design your experiential marketing for you
You don’t have to browse 500 rentals or build your own quote to get started. Send us your budget, your venue, your guest count and the kind of event you’re picturing, and one of our event specialists will come back with a recommended plan built around all four, with pricing.
It is the fastest way to get a real answer, and there is no obligation. Prefer to pick everything yourself? The full collection is always there to browse.
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Your budget A range is plenty. It lets us put forward a mix that is actually realistic instead of wasting your time.
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Your venue The name or address, indoors or out, and anything awkward about the load-in, ceiling height or power.
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Your guest count Roughly how many people, and whether that includes partners, clients or kids.
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Theme or vibe A theme you have already settled on, or just the feeling you are after: relaxed, competitive, upscale, nostalgic, branded.
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What people book for experiential marketing
Six of the most-requested categories for this kind of event. Everything below is delivered, set up and taken away by our own crew.
Arcade Game Rentals
Our arcade game rentals would be perfect for your next experiential marketing event. Successful experiential marketing events happen when you connect your clients to a positive image of your brand. Our fun arcade game rentals would do just the job. Rent our popular Arcade Crane Game, in which customers won't be able to resist stopping and playing. We can fully customize the crane game to your brand, and you can include branded event merchandise inside the machine as a prize to send your consumers home with.
See arcade game rentals → 02Photo Booth Rentals
If you are planning an experiential marketing event, our custom photo booth rentals would be a perfect fit to provide your consumers with a positive experience. Some great experiential marketing examples that have created memorable events in the past include our Photo Mosaic Wall, and our Flipbook Studio. Our Flipbook studio will leave your customers with a keepsake of a flip book with your brand on the cover. This will keep a positive memory in their mind. Our Photo Mosaic will create a wall of individual photos and when you take a step back, you will see your customized mosaic image.
See photo booth rentals → 03Promotional & Trade Show
Connect your consumers to your brand with our promotional and trade show rentals. If you are looking for branded merchandise, our team will work with you to assist. Whether you would like to brand arcade games, promo items, or custom banners, we can do it! For some great custom trade show booth rentals check out our Massive Promo Wheel, which includes branding, or our Premium Money Machine rental, which is also customizable. If you want a unique addition to your experiential marketing event, check out our Vending Machine rental, and include custom branded bottled waters, sodas, or alcoholic beverages. We can even fully brand the machine.
See promotional & trade show → 04Event Decor
Our event decor would be a great addition to your next experiential marketing event. With a wide range of event decor rentals, we guarantee that our team can match the theme of your event. Roll out the red carpet and have your guests see an impressive entryway! Some great experiential marketing examples that have really made a mark utilizing our event decor, is our Giant Champagne Bottle which can be customized with your logo, and our Eiffel Tower rental to bring your event to Paris.
See event decor → 05Cart Rentals
Check out our cart rentals for your next experiential marketing event. These portable carts can be fully customized to your liking, and can serve for the purpose of selling branded merchandise, handing out food concessions or coffee, and much more. Connect your consumers to a positive experience with your company by handing out giveaways like branded merchandise, custom branded bottled water, and much more. Our top quality cart rentals are the best way to hand out branded merchandise, and other products to your customers!
See cart rentals → 06Performers & Talent
Hiring performers and talent is a great way to drive traffic into your experiential marketing event. Engage your consumers with a fun form of entertainment while also connecting them to a positive image of your brand. From our talented artists to our lively magicians, we can ensure your event will be filled with fun and excitement. Really grab your guest's attention with our futuristic Giant LED Robot, who will talk and take pictures with your visitors.
See performers & talent →Browse all experiential marketing rentals → Not sure what you need? Tell us about your event and we’ll recommend a package
Frequently asked questions
What brand activation rentals do you supply?
Are you an experiential marketing agency?
Can you do a fully custom event activation?
Which activations produce the best branded content?
How much lead time do you need for a branded activation?
Do you supply staff to run the activation?
Where do you deliver activations?
What does a brand activation rental cost?
Are you insured, and can you provide a certificate?
See all rentals & services → Still have a question? Ask an event specialist
Reviews
What our clients say
Loved working with Abbey Road! The team of designers and installation is AMAZING!
The graphic designer did a great job! The attendant was great. I have no hesitation recommending Abbey Road.
Abbey Road Entertainment was extremely professional and their photo booth was a huge hit at our event. Their entire team, from the contract, to design and the team that ran the booth, were extremely helpful and the quality of their services was excellent. I would highly recommend their services to anyone who might be looking.
Exceptional customer service from the time of booking to onsite set up/tear down. Abbey Road has great products and fantastic staff. Will definitely use them again.
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Experiential Marketing in Toronto & the GTA
Brand activation and experiential marketing rentals in Toronto
- ★ Trusted since 2008
- ★ 1,200+ events a year
- ★ Delivered, set up & staffed
- ★ Leading brands, agencies & Fortune 500
- ★ In-house custom branding
- ★ $5M insured
Abbey Road Entertainment supplies the equipment behind brand activations across Toronto and the GTA: custom event activations, branded content activations, photo experiences, prize wheels, arcade and giant games, all wrapped in your campaign by our in-house design and print team. We have done it since 2008, for brands, agencies and in-house marketing teams.
We are a rental and production supplier, not an experiential marketing agency. We do not write the campaign, buy the media or staff a national tour: we build, brand, deliver, install and run the physical thing people walk up to. A lot of our work arrives through agencies for exactly that reason, and we are comfortable being the supplier rather than the strategist.
Read the full guide to experiential marketing in Toronto
A brand activation lives or dies on one question: is there a reason to stop walking? Everything below is chosen for that: short to play, nothing to explain, and a result worth photographing.
Event activation rentals: what people actually stop for
Event activation rentals cover everything a guest can walk up to, and custom-branded games are the core of it. Prize wheels and money machines create an instant queue. Arcade Game Rentals wrapped in a campaign turn a logo into something people handle for two minutes rather than glance at. Giant Game Rentals work outdoors and in high-ceilinged spaces where a small piece would disappear. Claw machines filled with product samples do more for trial than a sampling table with staff.
Photo Booth Rentals are the sharing engine: 360 spin platforms, AI portrait booths, mirror booths, green screen and roaming photographers, all with custom overlays, branded prints and instant sharing so the campaign leaves with the guest.
Custom event activations and branded content
Our in-house design and print team wraps, skins and prints almost everything we own. That means a full custom event activation can be built from stock hardware in a fraction of the time and cost of fabricating from scratch, which is usually the difference between an activation happening and being cut from the budget.
For branded content activations in Toronto, the pieces that generate usable footage are the ones with a clear reaction: a 360 booth, a reaction-cam game, a prize moment. We will tell you which of ours film well and which do not.
Where these go
Retail and mall activations, festivals, sampling tours, conference floors, dealership and showroom events, film and TV promotions, street-level pop-ups, and a brand activation booth Toronto exhibitors can run on a show floor. See our Promotional and Trade Show Rentals. We deliver, install, staff and strike, and our crews are used to short load-in windows and shared loading docks.
What we are, and what we are not
We are the supplier. We own the hardware, we brand it, we bring it, we run it and we take it away. We are not an agency: no strategy, no creative concepting, no media buying, no national field-marketing teams. If you need that, work with an agency, and tell them to call us for the kit.
Do you work directly with agencies?
Constantly, and it is our preferred way to work. Send the deck and the footprint and we will come back with what can be built from stock, what needs custom print and what is genuinely not worth doing.
How much lead time does a custom activation need?
Two to four weeks is comfortable for print and wraps on existing hardware. Under a week is possible on plain rentals. Anything requiring fabrication from scratch is not our service.
Let’s plan your experiential marketing
Tell us what you’re imagining for your experiential marketing and we’ll handle the rest, delivered, set up, staffed and struck.
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