This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the 2024 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. While there I met with numerous licensing agents, manufacturers, and retailers about licensing some of the Binky and Bell images and taking our impact of helping homeless pets to a much larger audience.

I was very excited and learned a lot about the behind the scenes discussions, pitches, platforms for licensing brands and of course all the other brands that are out there. At times it was overwhelming but overall it was a great networking and educational opportunity for the Binky and Bell brand.

I can’t tell you how excited I am about collaborating and working with some of these companies, agents and manufacturers. I received lots of great feedback and ideas. While there I was able to share samples of our Binky and Bell items and just feel this overwhelming positive vibe from people that I met with. How awesome is it to introduce yourself to a complete stranger and for them to say they had seen my art and loved what we are doing with it. How delightful is it to meet people that care about homeless pets as much as I do and want to discuss a collaboration or a special project together.

It’s too soon to report results, but I remain very optimistic that I will be making some big announcements over the upcoming months.