1 Week Left: the Countdown Stops on September 30.

1 Week Left: the Countdown Stops on September 30.

Thousands of event companies deserve the award from eventplanner.net. Most never receive it, for one trivial reason.

Festivals are Increasingly about More than Music

Festivals are Increasingly about More than Music

4 out of 10 young festival-goers expect to possibly use more drugs than in previous years.

Why Half your Free-Event Registrations won't Show Up, and What Actually Fixes It

Why Half your Free-Event Registrations won't Show Up, and What Actually Fixes It

Every organiser of free events knows the maths: the room is set for 200, catering is paid for 200, and 120 walk in. It feels like bad luck. It isn't. It's one of the most predictable numbers in the industry, and one of the most fixable.

Draw Your Entire Event Layout, to Scale, in our Event Software

Draw Your Entire Event Layout, to Scale, in our Event Software

Last week you asked us if Seating could handle full event layouts. It couldn't. Now it can: trace your venue to scale, draw the walls, place the bar and the stage, and send one plan to everyone who has to build the room.

How to Build Attendee Personas for Your Event

How to Build Attendee Personas for Your Event

Event audiences are like buyers; you must know them well to make an impact. And by 'well', we mean 'extremely well'.

Secretly Building Stands for Your Employer's Client? This Project Manager Now Owes €200.000

Secretly Building Stands for Your Employer's Client? This Project Manager Now Owes €200.000

A project manager at a Dutch stand-building company spent part of his employment quietly running jobs for one of his employer's...

The 90-minute Event

The 90-minute Event

Somewhere in the last few years the default event stopped being obviously worth a day. Diaries got denser, travel budgets got scrutinised, and the person you most want in the room became the person least able to give you eight hours.