CEIR President and CEO Brian Casey, CEM notes, “This report is a call-to-action to exhibition organizers and exhibitors alike to pay attention to attendee digital media habits. The study indicates that the mobile marketing wave is upon the business-to-business industry today. The pervasive use of digital devices while attending an exhibition offers the organizer a tremendous opportunity to enhance the attendee experience. It also offers exhibitors a chance to maximize engagement with attendees to further enhance the experience of current and prospective customers while they are on the trade show floor.”
Key findings from this focus report include:
This report profiles the digital media attitudes and habits of business-to-business exhibition attendees on the following:
In addition to overall results, this report details unique attendee preferences by age, gender, industry sector, role in purchasing decisions, organizational size, frequency of attending exhibitions and distance traveled to attend.
One additional report from this series will be released soon:
Sponsors of this report include Global Experience Specialists (GES) and Feathr.
Click here to access Focus Report on Attendee Technology Profile.
The two recently published reports from the Digital Toolkit are available here:
BACKGROUND ON METHODOLOGY
This study involves research from the vantage point of attendees, exhibitors and exhibition organizers. Online survey research was conducted in the summer of 2015. A nationally representative sample of 421 business-to-business exhibition attendees was generated using ResearchNow’s online business panel. Qualified executives at organizations that run or manage business-to-business exhibitions, belonging to IAEE, SISO and PCMA were invited to participate in the organizer study, generating a sample of 194 executives. For the brand marketer perspective, sample from Exhibitracs and Global Experience Specialists was used, to which a total of 186 qualified executives responded.
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