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To kick off a new week, we’re going to lay out the most common virtualevent mistakes. Even though virtualevents are set to become the new normal, not many planners have experience with this paradigm. There are still plenty of misconceptions flying around in regards to virtualevents.
After more than a year of helping planners navigate the complex world of virtualevents, we learned a thing or two about pain points. Over the course of these challenging months, many event profs came to us with a series of different problems and doubts. What does your sponsor forecast look like? Initial Considerations.
With the threat of COVID-19 planners are facing mandates and calls to cancel events globally. Event profs around the world are facing the challenge of turning their in-person event into a virtualevent and fast. After all, how do you switch your in-person event to a virtualevent? .
Virtualevent planning is taking the stage as the next big thing in the industry. Ponder this – in a world where technology develops and improves at an impressive speed, it’s our job as events profs to keep up with the motions. So to help you, we put together the ultimate virtualevent planning checklist!
Understandably, the advent of virtualevents came to shake the very core of the industry. With countries shutting down and social distancing measures put in place, virtual experiences are the only choice planners have to stay afloat. Thankfully, most event profs seem to be handling the transition quite well.
In the COVID-19 era , it becomes increasingly important to discuss the ins and outs of virtualevents. And most importantly, virtualevent marketing ideas. Now that a few months have passed, and virtualevents have increased in popularity, dangers related to webinar fatigue are more real than ever.
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If you’re planning a virtualevent, you’ll want to have a meeting with a virtualevent production company ASAP. Most planners are now scrambling to figure out how to replicate the in-person experience in a virtual environment. Virtualevents offer a lot of brand new possibilities.
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Today we want to tackle the issues pertaining to a virtualevent timeline. Why Should I Worry About A VirtualEvent Timeline? There are hundreds of virtualevents taking place right now. VirtualEvent Timeline. In good old Endless fashion, it’s time to get real. Let’s Go!
For instance, you probably read every article under the sun teaching you about virtual audience engagement, sponsorships, speakers, and more. But how much attention have you actually paid to the virtualevent production aspect? How detrimental a low level of excellence is to the success of your event.
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Today’s episode of the Event Tech Podcast was inspired by a recent Event Leadership Institute summit where Brandt and Will did a fast rundown on ten eventtechnology trends. Most of the trends have gotten their own standalone Event Tech Podcast episode already. Next up are smart glasses and AR for events.
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Rather than having a regular conversation about eventtechnology, Will and Brandt are sharing the contents of a session they led at the FICP Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona back in November 2021. Introducing EventTechnology Trends 2022. But, at the same time, technology is now more important than ever before.
Creating your virtualevent budget might feel like a complex task. Sure, you’re probably more than used to create budgets for in-person events. But how do you go about it in the scope of virtualevents? Simultaneously, new things that are inherent to virtualevents will have to be accounted for.
After all, event platforms are key to planning the best hybrid or virtualevent and are definitely here to stay. Virtual & Hybrid Event Platforms: All About Automation. First off, Will asks Kyle to talk about his thoughts on virtualevent platforms. ” Attendance Tracking In Hybrid Events.
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People used Zoom to host virtualevents as well as catch up with their loved ones. Even though there are now more than 100 event platforms on the market, many event planners still choose Zoom in its limited form for their virtual experiences. Zoom also poses a challenge for event video storage.
Thanks to an absolute boom of eventtechnology solutions , event planners can now craft data-based event strategies and measure their event success better than ever before. Event KPIs (key performance indicators) therefore directly drive event ROI and inform how successful was the event.
And you can’t host your event and community in the same place, either. That’s why it’s usually better to opt for an event marketing technology platform to do your promotions, community, and events in one place. Source EventSponsors One of the biggest hurdles for event planners is cost.
It boosts audience engagement and helps event planners reach their event goals in quantifiable and seamless ways. No wonder it has become one of the most popular benefits of event platforms ! Most event platforms on the market offer both in-person as well as virtualevent gamification solutions.
But if there’s one thing event professionals are known for it’s being flexible. Thanks to this knack for adaptability, a surge in virtualevents completely shifted the paradigm, and audiences were introduced to brand new ways to connect and experience the world. Opting For The Wrong Sponsors. No Broadcast Quality.
And back at the beginning of the pandemic madness, webinars, live streams, and virtualevents, in general, were welcomed by pretty much everyone. Never has this emotional and physical exhaustion in regards to virtualevents been as marked as it is now. Well, we are currently at the driver’s seat to make a change.
Zoom isn’t designed for large-scale events, so opting for Zoom instead of a proper event platform won’t do you any favors. Let’s look at why video conferencing platforms like Zoom aren’t a fit for virtual and hybrid events and why quality virtualevents require a paid platform. Advanced Analytics.
In one of our recent blog posts, we explained why eventtechnology should be the building block of your event strategy. We’re talking about 365 community engagement: one of the most exciting event trends of 2022! No wonder it is one of the biggest event trends to keep an eye on in 2022!
Predictions are that 40% of 2022 events are projected to happen online, there will be a 37% increase in companies’ virtualevent spending, and 20% of trade shows will remain virtual. But the reality is that 80% of virtual attendance is free. Start small but think big”.
Remo is a map-based virtualevent platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018. Also, it’s very easy to please your sponsors with the tools that they give you.” ” Before the pandemic, they planned an annual two-day training event for the entire state of Nevada.
What better way to learn more about the exciting world of eventtechnology than listening to an awesome product spotlight episode of the Event Tech Podcast? Today, Will and Brandt bring two guests in to hear an unbiased review of Accelevents , an all-in-one hybrid, and virtualevent management platform.
So, while events are beginning to offer physical options, the future of events will be inclusive of hybrid events, offering a vibrant digital overlay to the in-person experience. The answer is to understand both your in-person and virtual audiences while creating powerful experiences for both.
Hubilo is the leading global virtual and hybrid eventtechnology company. ” The Value Of VirtualEvents. ” “2020 was when people had to forcefully move towards virtualevents,” he says. “They’d already taken money from their sponsors and their attendees.
We can now rely on various attendance tracking software solutions to help us measure the various aspects of the attendee experience at in-person, hybrid, and virtualevents. They also automate and speed up the event management process before, during, and after the event. . Attendee tracking starts at event registration.
It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events. As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtualevents put together. Higher Event ROI.
The launch this week of Bizzabo’s SmartBadge technology, branded as Klik Experiential wearables, is the next step in delivering virtual meeting-level data at in-person events. More robust tracking can more meaningfully bring events into the marketing funnel securely and sustainably. “As Organizer/Sponsor Benefits.
2022 is going to be our best year yet; we’ve embraced exciting new eventtechnology and hybrid events as the way of the future! If 2020 was a year of pivoting and learning about virtualevents, 2021 was a year of putting that knowledge to the test. Which virtualevent platform features to look for?
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But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. At CTA, we believe passionately that innovation and technology will make a better world,” he said.
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