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“We can’t wait to come back,” says Michael Bartholow about attending in-person conferences. “It’s really one of the best parts of a lot of our jobs.” But asked when he will feel safe to attend events, the marketing and education director at digital experience agency Bounteous is far less certain. “A few marketing events in […]
DEC. 14, 2020 — Nurse Sandra Lindsay is the first American to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York. (Courtesy: Northwell Health) This week, the United States began the historic rollout of the first approved vaccine for COVID-19, giving the country and the rest of the world […]
Marketers’ already low expectations that they could safely attend in-person events this year have bottomed out, according to our latest Events Participation Index, which isn’t surprising as the planet passed a grim milestone of 1 million deaths tied to COVID-19 this week. But despite concerns over second and, in some cases, third waves of the […]
Virtual events are the talk of marketing departments these days. We know, we’re putting on a host of them. But the big question that has remained since COVID-19 put an end to large-scale, in-person gatherings has been, “When will conferences, trade shows and other in-person business events come back?” The answer: You tell us. For […]
Professional marketers are embracing online-only events as the unlikelihood that they would attend an in-person conference during the COVID-19 pandemic stretches deep into 2021. In our survey of over 300 marketers, respondents on average gave the prospect of attending an in-person event a 3 out of 10 chance through the end of the first half […]
Sure, virtual events are all the rage, but the prevailing sentiment about in-person conferences, trade shows and networking events too risky to carry out during the COVID-19 pandemic is that one day they will return. But when, exactly, is the question? We have been tracking these attitudes through our Event Participation Index, a short recurring […]