Trade Shows

Experts weigh in: How to navigate a tight venue market and secure a space for your events 1. Brace for sticker shock, especially the hotel rates. “Not only is the event industry strong, but transient business demand is very high in most major cities, too,” says Michael Hughes, managing director-research and consulting at the Event […]

Intel’s Victor Torregroza, Program Manager-Brand & Reputation Marketing, Sends You a Taste of the Action A few weeks ago, I attended the debut of CES Asia at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC). It was my first time in Shanghai and I was excited to experience the newest incarnation of CES. CES Asia took […]

Call it serendipity. Call it bad luck. Call it fate. However you label it, the booth design space assigned to Kia at this year’s New York International Auto Show was not what the brand expected. With its current kit, Kia requires a space that reaches 16 feet high at any given vehicle expo. But when […]

For years marketers have relied on video, surveys and anecdotal data to gauge in-booth engagement on the show floor. At the New York International Auto Show April 1-12, Toyota leveraged beacons—small, silent trackers that captured attendance, dwell time, inbound and outbound traffic flows and engagement at specific zones. While beacons are expert at helping to […]

Dazzling car exhibits at NAIAS 2015 engage the industry, press and public More than 40 new cars were revealed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which opened to the press on Jan. 12 at the Cobo Center. The new models, along with exotic sports cars, pickup trucks and a host of other […]