Conference Marketing Trends for 2025
Conference marketing trends for 2025 will evolve to focus on creating immersive, wellness-oriented, and data-driven experiences utilizing AI. From sponsored wellness lounges offering activities like yoga and meditation to gamified recycling solutions powered by AI, these trends aim to enhance attendee engagement while promoting sponsor visibility.
Is Your Conference Ready for Out-of-Home Media Sponsorships? – 6 Signs Your Association Might Be Missing Out On Untapped Non-Dues Revenue
Recognizing that adding Out-of-Home media sponsorships could effectively increase non-dues revenue for associations is essential for organizers to seize opportunities. We’ve identified six key indicators that suggest an event is ripe for OOH sponsorship and explore the potential benefits of such collaborations.
Wasted Impressions or Wasted Opportunity? Out-of-Home Media for Conference Marketing
Using Out-of-Home media for conference marketing may resulted in some wasted impressions, but the alternative is much worse.
Expanding Non-Dues Revenue with Out of Home Media
Expanding non-dues revenue from event sponsorships is critical for associations. Out of Home media can be an easy, high impact addition.
Beyond the Booth: Sponsorship Opportunities for the Enthusiastic Exhibitor
Our study, Beyond the Booth, provides actionable insights into the exhibitor experience and their attitude toward sponsorship opportunities.
Get Your Boots On!: The “Genchi Genbutsu” of Trade Show Media
Trade shows offer incredible opportunities to reach valuable and concentrated audiences, but to find the right media you have to “Go and See”.
How to Use OOH to Drive Traffic to Your Trade Show Booth
The purpose of having a trade show booth at a conference is to have your audience deeply engage with your team and with your products or message. Therefore, it's important to make it as easy as possible for attendees to know where to find you in a large conference...
Trade Show Marketing: A Beginner’s Guide
This beginners’ guide will explain what trade show marketing involves, how to plan it well, and how it fits into an overall marketing strategy.
Beyond the Booth: Struggling Trade Show Exhibitors
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes When we conducted our recent study – Beyond the Booth: A Report on Exhibitors’ Viewpoints and Attitudes Toward Sponsorship Opportunities – it surfaced some fascinating insights into the struggling trade show exhibitors experience and...
Trade Show Marketing Trends – Conference Pulse March, 2023
As the 2023 season is getting ramped up these are the Trade Show Marketing trends we are seeing developing early this year.
Beyond the Booth: A Report on Exhibitors’ Viewpoints and Attitudes Toward Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship opportunities are a key part of the trade show and conference ecosystem. Sponsorships are critical for both the exhibiting brands, as well as the event organizations themselves. For exhibitors, conferences are such an important part of their yearly...
The Benefits of Adding Out of Home Media Sponsorships to Your Event
Adding Out of Home media sponsorships to your event
Trade Show Pulse: November 2022
Trade Shows are an integral part of the overall marketing strategy for so many brands. They play a critical role in lead generation, competitive positioning, event promotion and launch strategy for new products. While we all made do as best we could during COVID, it’s...
Reach Event Attendees With Out of Home Media
As tradeshows and conferences are beginning to come back we thought it would be a good time to take another look at how exhibitors can reach event attendees with Out of Home media. Out of Home is often overlooked as a tradeshow marketing tactic, and this is...
Out of Home Media Planning for 2022
The past 18 months has been a roller coaster for the advertising industry, and for the Out of Home industry in particular. Lockdowns, people working – and shopping – from home meant reduced traffic on the roads, and this meant that marketers were not looking at OOH...
Conference Comeback: Expectations for Post-Covid Trade Shows
As trade shows begin to come back, there are many things to consider as we move into the new normal. So, what are the expectations for post-Covid trade shows?
How Trade Show Marketers Can Navigate COVID-19 and Other Crises
As trade show marketers struggle to navigate crises, it’s important to communicate openly, plan for current and future scenarios, and pivot budgets to channels that remain effective.
5 Trends for Trade Show Marketing in 2020
Trade show marketing trends for 2020 reflect changes we’re seeing in audiences, technology and new ways to experience and connect to brands or products.
The Importance of Second Tier Trade Shows
Second-tier trade shows can play an important role in advancing marketing strategy and increasing brand awareness and engagement with your target audience.
Trade Show Marketing Trends for 2019
In 2019, we’ll see trade show exhibitors and sponsors with a deeper focus and bigger investments in creating unique, interactive, memorable brand experiences.
3 Steps for Optimizing Your Trade Show Marketing
Whether its brand awareness or a product launch, trade show marketing allows you to get the right message in front of the right audience at the right time and place. The key is to define your needs and embrace an integrated approach to build a campaign that goes beyond the booth.
Digital Tactics for Trade Show Marketing
The rule of seven is one of the founding concepts in marketing: a recipient must hear or see a message at least seven times before they will take an action. For trade shows, it’s important to deliver multiple messages to an audience. Digital marketing tactics offer dynamic and customized messaging capabilities.
Your Tradeshow Forecast: Experiential with an Abundance of Technology!
Tradeshow marketers must engage their audience and measurement that impact. Integrated Experiential Exhibit Technology, or IEET, allows an audience to have a profound multi-sensory experience with a brand, while capturing impression data. As marketers embrace IEET, it will change the way audiences experience the world.
How to Create a Brand Presence Off of the Trade Show Floor
For many brands, trade show marketing is a major component of the integrated marketing mix because it offers such a unique brand engagement opportunity. With the right audience in the right place at the right time, it’s a no-brainer to market to them. How can your brand make the most of the investment and opportunity?
Understanding the Trade Show Attendee Experience
Successful trade show marketing is about developing a media plan that aligns with and capitalizes on attendee behaviors in the market to accomplish a brand’s marketing goals. An effective trade show marketing strategy must be unique and specific for reaching attendees going to the convention market, during the event, and throughout their time moving around the city.
The Budget & The Booth: A Trade Show Tale as Old as Time
Exhibiting at your first trade show can feel like venturing into unknown territory. Doing your research and putting together a strong team are some key steps. Our guide will help you make sense of the chaos, maximize your budget and achieve your fairy tale ending.
Expand Exhibitor Marketing Footprints With Unique New Promotional Sponsorships
Trade shows and conventions are critical marketing opportunities for exhibitors. Many companies devote relatively large portions of their marketing budget to these events recognizing the benefit of the face to face meetings.
One important part of trade show planning for exhibitors is taking advantage of sponsorship-advertising opportunities to increase their share of voice, and drive that all-important traffic to their booth. But for some associations it can be a struggle to keep pace with the exhibitor’s demand for new marketing strategies.
The Booth and Beyond: Fundamentals for Your First Trade Show
Trade shows and conventions can be crucial marketing opportunities for exhibitors. We wanted to tap into the expertise of some of the newest team members’ of our Trade Show Marketing team, and share some of their knowledge on preparing for your tradeshow experience. This will be the first in a series that will walk you through key steps in the process – from the initial planning stages, to designing your booth, to checklists for your activation, and of course driving traffic to your booth using OOH media.
The Numbers Behind Trade Shows
Trade show marketing is one of the most effective ways to advertise in Out of Home. Here are some numbers that prove why that is.
San Francisco | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee
San Francisco is one of the top trade show and convention markets in the country and possibly the world. It also happens to be a fantastic city for food, drink, sights, and shopping. I often spend a lot of my time in markets checking out the media we place for our...