It’s a Good Year to Reconsider Event Marketing
COVID-19 upended the market for in-person events due to marketers freezing spending. Outsell recently surveyed 235 US marketers to learn…
What Can B2B Marketing Budgets Tell Us About Events in 2021?
Here at Outsell, we continue to lead the industry in analyzing and benchmarking the impact of COVID-19 on events. Earlier this year, I…
Mental Health & Ginger
Shout out to Russell Glass, CEO of Ginger, a mental health platform targeting enterprise clients that spun out from MIT Media Labs moons…
Introducing Outsell FutureScapes
We live and work in ever-changing times. Pandemic, recession, climate change — all pose external risks to information marketplaces that…
Announcing My Darling Naki: A Love Story in Letters
How can a couple who only met three or four times in person before they married stay together for 64 years? How can a couple whose…
Goodbye Mr. Gartner and Mr. Power
Our industry lost two visionary leaders recently: David Power III, founder of J.D. Power left us last week, and Gideon I. Gartner, founder…
Outsell Event Outlook 2021
Outsell has been at the forefront of researching and benchmarking the new world of events that has been thrust upon us by the pandemic…
Annual Planning
I’ve often been asked by clients how we do our annual planning. We follow our own Outsell Growth Framework and revisit our business plan…
2020 Events and What They Mean or 2021
At first, 2020 looked to be a normal year: bickering over presidential politics, trade disputes, and the ever-present Brexit. We went to…
Outsell Most Read Headlines in 2020
Wondering what the industry’s most-read headlines were in 2020? Here are the top 50, collected by Outsell Headlines Editor Susan Brown and…
What Announcements Caught Your Eye this Year?
When we began 2020, there was an inkling of things going awry as early warning signs about COVID-19 emerged. In January, most of us had…
Lil Nas X and Why Events Will Never Be the Same
I had a great dialogue with my friend and colleague Tony Lorenz this week on LinkedIn about dropping the notion of naming events as…
Happy Thanksgiving
I’d like to think that despite Thanksgiving being quintessentially American, it’s a holiday whose spirit can span the globe. It’s about…
Lessons Learned — Virtual Outsell Signature Event 2020
Well, it’s done now. Last week, we held the Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI digitally this year. Instead of being at The…
This Letter Could Be My Letter
My husband sent me this letter yesterday. As I read it, I told him: “We could have written this.” We are both second-generation natives of…
By the Time You Read This… Register Today
The Outsell Signature Event Program will be final, and the speakers are “don’t miss.” This year we have over 40 speakers from around the…
Outsell Signature Event — Look Who’s Coming
3Pillar Global 67 Bricks Ltd ALM Media Properties, LLC American Association for the Advancement of Science, Inc. (AAAS) American Chemical…
Outsell Signature Event — Master Classes
This year and next require Radical Reinvention — the meta-theme of this year’s Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI. To that end…
Outsell Signature Event — From Here, Where Now?
At the end of the journey of radical reinvention thrust upon us this year and accelerating at breakneck speed comes the opportunity to…
Get Your Copy: Outsell Information Industry Outlook 2021
Our annual bible on the industry has all the details you’ll need to navigate the year ahead. Be sure to get your copy now!
Outsell Signature Event: Digital Transformation — Is It Finished Yet?
Digital transformation can mean a lot of things, but there’s one eternal truth: it’s an ongoing process, not a single step change. At the…
Outsell Signature Event: Artificial Intelligence — Is It Ready Yet? Yes!
What’s the most common question people ask about Artificial Intelligence? It’s “Can you please show me some practical and relevant…
Outsell Signature Event: Dealing with China
How important is China to your business now? And in years to come? Is the Chinese market still a golden opportunity or now a deadly threat…
My Ancestry.com Nightmare: Improving CX/UX
I couldn’t help but think of my colleague Debbie Levitt’s memo to me the other day (do they say memo anymore?) She’s a master at CX/UX and…
Outsell Signature Event: Radical Innovation
At a time when quick decisions to change course, swap business models, or embrace new technology could be vital for survival, the Outsell…
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