Online advertising generates oceans of data. This data can help you better allocate ad spend and deploy more effective campaigns to drive attendance but you will only be able to achieve these benefits if you capture, analyze and act on the data. We recently analyzed a group of over 100 million online ads that we purchased using traditional and programmatic tools across the world for … Read the...

Encore client, The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, used a multi-layer targeting strategy to focus the millions of online display ads it ran to drive attendance for its 55th edition, which wrapped up last Monday with nearly 1,000 dealers participating from 30 countries. We want to highlight one specific targeting layer of the campaign because we believe it is underemployed by event marketers. The … Read the...

Collaborative marketing with your exhibitors is a great way to stretch your marketing budget and drive attendance. We like the multi-faceted collaborative marketing program for the recent London Boat Show 2016 (LBS) so we share three of the tactics this organizer employed to help exhibitors promote their participation in the show to their audiences. (1) LBS offered exhibitors a robust package of online creative assets … Read the...

Encore client, American Film Market (AFM), deployed its largest online advertising campaign ever to attract industry professionals from around the world to its 36th edition, which wrapped up its eight-day run in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. The global b2b event, which has launched over 10,000 films and drives more than one billion dollars in film deals annually, ran 35 million digital ad … Read the...

According to research in a recent eMarketer article, marketers continue to place the highest value on data which they collect themselves i.e. first-party data, especially transaction history, customer information and behavioral data, vs. second- or third-party data, which is collected by others. Our exhibition and event clients certainly do as well.  First-party data is the most important data asset in informing the tens of … Read the...