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- 0:28Hello everybody and welcome along to the Event Industry News Podcast with
- 0:31me, James Dixon, wishing all a very good morning, afternoon, or evening wherever
- 0:36or whenever you tune into today's podcast from.
- 0:39It's a glorious Monday morning, as it so often is
- 0:43when I'm recording these podcasts, always on a Monday. And in recent months,
- 0:46yeah, we're in British summertime at the moment and things are pretty
- 0:50good. Welcome along to today's show, everybody.
- 0:53And on today's show, we're going to be looking at at reporting, uh, all things,
- 0:58uh, analytical related to the events industry with a
- 1:02gentleman who I've been, uh, fortunate enough to have known for, for some— well,
- 1:05yeah, I'm gonna say many years now, um,
- 1:08probably coming up a decade that I first met our guest today,
- 1:12um, via work that I was doing in the industry, uh,
- 1:15and via his company that we're going to find a little bit more out about
- 1:19today. My guest is Rob Murdoch. Rob is the Sales
- 1:23Director for a company called Exposure Analytics. Some of our podcast guests
- 1:27may be familiar with them. If you're not, we're going to find out a bit
- 1:30more about them today. Rob, a warm welcome, uh, and, uh, yeah, welcome along.
- 1:33Thank you, James, that's a lovely intro. Appreciate that.
- 1:38Yeah, likewise. And it is— it must be, it must be coming
- 1:41up 10 years since you and I first met,
- 1:44um, and, uh, you know, it— I've always got to remind
- 1:48myself that even if I know people or I know what what their companies do
- 1:51in the industry. It's never a given that our podcast's
- 1:54followers are going to know, you know, every single guest that comes on to the
- 1:58podcast. So why don't we start sort of at the obvious beginning, Rob?
- 2:02Tell us a little bit about yourself, but more specifically, what is it that
- 2:06Exposure Analytics do within the industry? So,
- 2:10Rob Murdoch, Sales Director, as you said. I've been working at Exposure
- 2:14now for the last 14 years, I think. And we help
- 2:18our clients understand the skills
- 2:22and the— what their booth has— the performance of their booth and how well
- 2:25it's done through insights. We started off in the early days
- 2:29just giving numbers to our clients here. You've had this many people come
- 2:33by your booth, this many people engage with it, but we've gone deeper and
- 2:36we've got a breadth of data within the events
- 2:41that we've done, and we wanted to give more insight, so we're working on
- 2:46producing this insights report, the Physical Engagement Index.
- 2:50And in terms of capturing that information, again, I think it's important that we
- 2:54perhaps frame that because, you know,
- 2:58the business has evolved and the technology that you use to capture
- 3:01the data that you have available and that you can provide back to clients has
- 3:05evolved as well. But are you still using sensor
- 3:08technology? How is the data itself monitored and captured? Yep,
- 3:12so we're still using sensor technology. Obviously, those sensors are updated and
- 3:15refreshed, and new technology, new material, new hardware
- 3:20is introduced to the business. But yeah, still the basic sensors, but it's
- 3:24the insights that our clients are interested more and
- 3:27more. And with this year, it's just gone absolutely crazy for the amount of events
- 3:31that we're doing. Real increase because people now
- 3:35want more information. There's more people going to events,
- 3:38there's reasons they're going there, and our brands and our clients want
- 3:43to understand what is working and what's not working. Is this event the
- 3:47right event for them? But also giving these benchmarks to them that
- 3:50this is what the industry standard is, this is what your industry type
- 3:55standard is, this is what you've seen on your booth.
- 3:58And how is that? I know we've spoken about the sensor thing, but again,
- 4:02I just want to paint a really clear picture for people listening to this today
- 4:05before we kind of dive into this report. Is what kind
- 4:09of data can be captured now? Because, you know, a lot of
- 4:13people in the events industry will be familiar with the kind of the basic motion
- 4:16sensors, and like you said, in the early days it was all just about capturing
- 4:19the basic numbers— how many people sort of came to a stand or walked past
- 4:23it. What are the sensors actually capturing themselves now from a
- 4:27data perspective? So the sensors are listening for pings from
- 4:31mobile devices, fully anonymized, fully GDPR
- 4:35client, and they're listening for that. From that, we can tell the proximity from the
- 4:38sensor, then work out the engagement and how long they were there for.
- 4:42So that's what they're doing. They're just in listen mode on a booth.
- 4:46And some booths we can have 1 sensor, some booths we can have 30 sensors.
- 4:50It depends on the size of the booth. And of course, at some of
- 4:54these, you know, huge, you know, booths that we see in the big sort of
- 4:57international events, you know, you can monitor people's movement
- 5:01within your own booth, presumably by triangulating positional
- 5:05data between various different sensors that might be in one booth?
- 5:09Yeah, well, we don't triangulate, but we do pick up that
- 5:13data and tell where they were engaged and what sensors they were on. So it's
- 5:17pretty accurate. We give ourselves a leeway of 10%,
- 5:21but most of the time we're on the money. It's giving that People
- 5:28talk about, oh, it was a busy booth. Well, how busy was it? They talk
- 5:32about, oh, we had lots of people staying here for a long time, but it's
- 5:35anecdotal data. Now they've got the insights that they can act on and
- 5:39deliver information back to their bosses, marketing directors,
- 5:43the CMO, the CEO, the board that want to know,
- 5:47how did it perform? We spent this much money on the space and this event,
- 5:51what have we got out of it? Yes, you've got leads, but also how
- 5:54many people saw the branding. Yeah, and then you mentioned
- 5:59anecdotal data. This has been mentioned on the podcast many times, you know,
- 6:02in the past, that for decades the events industry
- 6:06really just relied on anecdotal,
- 6:09extremely basic headline data, you know,
- 6:12usually boiled down to how many people walked through the door.
- 6:16That was pretty much it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For me, for years,
- 6:19attendance has been the measurement. You know,
- 6:23what— yeah, attendance isn't performance though. All it tells you is how
- 6:26many people are in the room. Does it tell you what was engaged? So this
- 6:30one's saying footfall is not engagement. Just because
- 6:34you've had 10,000 people into that room doesn't mean they've engaged with you.
- 6:38And, you know, they were talking— clients used to talk about badge scans,
- 6:42you know, the aggressive badge scanners are going there scanning. That's not good
- 6:46data. You want really good data to understand what's
- 6:50working. And, you know, is the booth working? Do we need to redesign the booth?
- 6:53Are they moving around the booth the way we expected them to? Because, yeah,
- 6:57human nature doesn't always follow the design that people have their booths for.
- 7:01Yeah, and this very much brings us on to this Physical Engagement Index,
- 7:06you know, the report that I think you said, you know, before we started recording
- 7:10today, is going to be— is due to be published in August. So, you know,
- 7:13podcast followers and people who work in the events industry will be able to
- 7:17get hold of this. I've been fortunate enough to see a draft of the report
- 7:19and you know, but very much it opens by saying,
- 7:23you know, what we've just mentioned, you know,
- 7:26that the industry relied on this very, very basic data that
- 7:30footfall is not necessarily good measurement of
- 7:34how successful an event is. And, you know, you've reminded me of somebody
- 7:37who once said that they saw somebody on a stand with a badge scanner.
- 7:40When you talk about aggressive scanning, they described
- 7:45them as the Rambo of that particular event. They'd seen somebody on a
- 7:50booth opposite who basically just had one of these badge scanners, was literally literally just
- 7:54like going for the numbers, trying to mow down as many badges as they could
- 7:57possibly get in a Rambo style over 2 or 3 days,
- 8:00however long this event was. And then when the sales team get that information,
- 8:05they're calling these people, no, I'm just, I'm not interested in
- 8:08it. It's a waste of everyone's time. Yeah. So good data is what
- 8:13people need. Insights is what people need. And, you know, we're producing that.
- 8:17So this physical engagement index that that we've created.
- 8:20We want to do it, we're going to be doing it every year so we
- 8:23can see the trends. This one that we've done, we started
- 8:28in 2020 with it and finished sort of early 2026,
- 8:32the data. That's over 3,000 events that we've measured.
- 8:35Yeah, the numbers are high, so we've got, you know, a lot of data.
- 8:39So 43.8 million visitors across those 3,000
- 8:42events, 18 countries, 18 different industry sectors,
- 8:46So yeah, a lot of data that there is. And just,
- 8:50you know, picking out some of the things— one thing that Rob and I both
- 8:54spoke about before we came on to today's podcast is when
- 8:57we have referenced reports like this in the industry on the podcast,
- 9:02what we don't want to do is just read the report verbatim because,
- 9:06you know, it is very much kind of the podcast equivalent of
- 9:10death by PowerPoint at the conference where the guy just reads the bullet points.
- 9:13But it is important that we touch on
- 9:17maybe some of the headline stats that are in here, Rob. You've mentioned 43.8 million
- 9:21total measured visitors between 2020 and 2026,
- 9:2615.6 million engaged visitors. And just,
- 9:29you know, the data is telling us that the average engaged visitor stayed
- 9:33for 13 minutes and 50 seconds on booze.
- 9:37And I'm saying these sort of numbers really
- 9:41as a way of telling people who are listening to this today
- 9:45just how accurate the data is that is available to them now. Yes, yeah,
- 9:49and if you think on the— this is the physical space—
- 9:52if you think in the digital world, the engagement they're getting is seconds,
- 9:55and we're seeing more and more shift of people spending longer at events,
- 9:59more people going to events because they need to, they want to be there,
- 10:03touch and feel and talk to people. Yeah, yeah, this is showing
- 10:07it. We've compiled the list by country, by industry
- 10:11sector, region,
- 10:14years, months. So the report covers a lot of information.
- 10:18What's the busiest months, the best countries for
- 10:22engagement, which countries do it well, and we go into detail in
- 10:26each section. So I'm not going to give away everything, as you said, it'd be
- 10:29death by report. Yeah, but that's interesting. I mean, without sort of
- 10:33going into that detail, were you interested
- 10:38in looking at some of the differences from territory to territory? Do the stats change
- 10:42dramatically from one country to another? Are there cultural
- 10:45or regional differences to some of the data that by looking at this report
- 10:50you thought, oh, that's interesting? Most definitely there is cultural differences,
- 10:55like UAE has the highest dwell
- 10:58time, people spend longer at the events. Germany has
- 11:02better engagement, the Germans are very precise in
- 11:06the way they do things and people will engage with a booth that they believe
- 11:10is delivering that. And it's very, very interesting seeing
- 11:14how Obviously we started in 2020
- 11:17and COVID hit, so we didn't have that much data, but we wanted to
- 11:21have pre-pandemic data and then post-pandemic data.
- 11:26This strikes me then, what you've just said, is potentially valuable information for
- 11:30international businesses who are exhibiting, you know,
- 11:34many times a year in different territories to represent, you know,
- 11:37global brands, you know, big electronic events,
- 11:42things like that. This strikes me as something that could be really useful to
- 11:46to global brands when they're trying to really design their
- 11:50activities at international exhibitions? Yes, most definitely,
- 11:53because each country is different, the trends are different.
- 11:57North America is different to UAE,
- 12:01Spain is different to Italy, they all act
- 12:04differently. France was an outlier that we saw and was an interesting
- 12:08one, not going to go into those details, but each country showed
- 12:13something different to us. Um, I mean, when I first,
- 12:17uh, saw the completed report, I was sat reading it. It's quite lengthy
- 12:21report. My wife said to me, what are you doing? I said, I'm looking at
- 12:24porn, data porn, because it's,
- 12:28it's really, really fascinating what came out of it. Well, again,
- 12:32we, we said we're going to pull out odd bits
- 12:36of information here without going in too much detail, but there is almost,
- 12:39just looking at the maths here, a 5— oh no,
- 12:43hold on, hold on here. Let's have a look at it. 12, 5, 50.
- 12:46Okay, there's about a 5-minute difference in the dwell time
- 12:50between UK and Ireland and the Middle East, which you just
- 12:54alluded to the fact that people do dwell. That, that— I mean, that, that's massive,
- 12:57isn't it? That's a significant swing. Is that because they're doing things
- 13:01better out there in terms of how they plan and deliver their, their exhibition
- 13:05stands? Is that a combination of the cultural element of
- 13:08it? You know, We're putting it down to cultural elements of it.
- 13:13That's simply that. The amount of
- 13:17events we've got covered and the amount of people that we measured, we know that
- 13:20the data is good there, and it's definitely cultural differences.
- 13:25I mean, is there a danger that there
- 13:28is too much data now? I've got to ask that question today because obviously this
- 13:33report is fascinating and there's a lot that people
- 13:36can disseminate from it. Once they, once they read through it. And one thing I
- 13:39would say, having read the draft copy, is it's actually, you know,
- 13:43very easy to understand. It's not one of those reports that has got
- 13:46a lot of jargon in there. It's been broken down and edited
- 13:50in such a way that it is actually very easy to understand. But notwithstanding,
- 13:53are we at a point, are we getting towards a sort of data saturation point
- 13:57within the events industry now? I would say no,
- 14:01that's bad data. We just don't want.
- 14:04But the good data is going to help you,
- 14:08give you good insights, help you act on that data.
- 14:11So yes, there's lots and lots of data
- 14:15points coming out. We're talking about AI and what that's producing,
- 14:18but this is from the physical events that we've measured, and it's
- 14:24data that you can work on and make changes
- 14:28to your booth and your performance moving forward. And I'm
- 14:32just going to mention the fact that the report itself
- 14:36does break down into sectors as well. So, you know,
- 14:39anybody reading this who might work in the events industry but within a specific sector
- 14:43of events or works for an exhibition organizer that specializes in certain industries,
- 14:48you know, that people can again break down and extract
- 14:52information from this report that is very much relevant to them. That there is a
- 14:57certain element of the report that is an overview of the the entire
- 15:00industry, but then it does go into detail into individual industries,
- 15:04which again, you know, anybody knows who knows
- 15:07trade shows and those types of events knows that every industry is ever
- 15:11so slightly different in terms of the people and their interaction at these types of
- 15:15events. Yes, and also our clients want to know benchmarks.
- 15:19Where should we be at? You know, if I'm working in the medical
- 15:23sector, what is the average for engagement,
- 15:26for dwell times, engaged dwell time. What should we be aiming at? Are we
- 15:31above or below average? So they can look at this report and look at it
- 15:34by year, look at it overall and say, oh, we're above average,
- 15:38or no, we need to improve. So yes, that's,
- 15:42it's gonna definitely help them. And, you know, we've shared some little
- 15:46bits with some clients, just when we're talking back to clients about
- 15:50past events we've done with them, we sort of say, well, on the benchmark,
- 15:54you're above or below, and they want to act on that and improve it.
- 15:57For next time. That we, or I,
- 16:00keep mentioning the, you know, the exhibitor, the companies themselves,
- 16:04and how this is going to affect them. But one thing I haven't asked,
- 16:08and one thing we haven't mentioned, is the benefit of a report like this to
- 16:11event organizers. I would see that
- 16:15this is going to have, you know, significant benefits to them
- 16:18if they read through this and extract some of the information. You know, the better
- 16:22an organizer can understand the data that is being generated by their exhibitors,
- 16:26the better job they can do with with their communication,
- 16:30with their pre-show ops, with their layout. This is going
- 16:34to potentially have a huge impact for organizers. Yeah, it can.
- 16:38And part of the report talks about location of
- 16:42the booth. Is it at the front center, front left, the middle, the back,
- 16:45and what sort of engagement they get there? And you talk about some
- 16:49organizers will charge more for the front center
- 16:53because you're going to be seen straight away, but our data suggests, yes, you're going
- 16:57to have the highest footfall, footfall, but not the highest engagement,
- 17:01because people get into the exhibition hall, turn right,
- 17:04turn left, and move past the front-standing booths.
- 17:09It's interesting because we still do a lot of that operational
- 17:13planning in terms of, you know, like you said,
- 17:15selling stands up at the front for a premium because we
- 17:21think that people are going to do better on those positions. But that is based
- 17:25on the anecdotal kind of psychology that is still very much locked into people's
- 17:30minds, isn't it? You know, that, that's based on the, the old footfall
- 17:35elements of it and thinking, right, if you're there right at the front, you're more
- 17:38likely to do business because people get, you know, they might get bored by the
- 17:42time they get to the back. But if you watch anybody who walks in through
- 17:45the doors of a trade show now, often people, they walk straight past the ones
- 17:48that are right at the front because they know where they want to go because
- 17:50they've looked at an app in advance. You know, all of this sort of old-school
- 17:54psychology and thinking, you know, it is taking a while to sort of break old
- 17:58habits, isn't it? Yes, most definitely. And, you know, everyone thinks
- 18:02front center is the best place. It's not always the best place. It depends on
- 18:06the show, but it's not always the best place.
- 18:09And our data is saying that. Yeah, and it's
- 18:13interesting. I was working on a show recently and they designed everything
- 18:18of significance from a theater and a hospitality point of view
- 18:22to be at the very back of the hall. There was nothing kind of even
- 18:26in the center or on the edges. It, it was all at the back.
- 18:30What their thinking was to, to, to drive people, uh,
- 18:34you know, all the way to the back to give maximum coverage to all of
- 18:37the exhibitors. I couldn't tell if it, if it worked or if it didn't work,
- 18:41but I actually don't think that they base anything— base
- 18:45that planning on anything other than their own instinct.
- 18:49Most, most probably, yes. Yeah, um, yeah, we When
- 18:53we're doing an event, creating an event, we collect a lot of data about
- 18:57the booth. So rather than just saying, what's the size of it, where do you
- 19:00want the sensors, what are you doing on that booth? Are you near
- 19:04a theater? Are you near toilets? Are you near a cafe?
- 19:07And we're going to be, for the next insights report,
- 19:10Physical Engagement Index, we will be presenting that data saying,
- 19:14well, booth locations near theaters get
- 19:18higher engagement. Well, we'll find out what happens on it when we produce a report
- 19:22because we don't know that information yet.
- 19:25Absolutely. This first report has been— we've
- 19:29referenced the fact that the data spans 2020 to '26.
- 19:33That's a 6-year period. Yep.
- 19:36Are future iterations of this report on an annual basis
- 19:41going to start from that 2020 start point, or will
- 19:44they just be based on data that you've collected in a yearly cycle, or will
- 19:47you Or will you kind of use a combination of both?
- 19:51That data's not going to change, so that report will always be
- 19:55there, the first report. So the next reports we
- 19:58do will be based on that, that current year. So giving
- 20:02comparisons back to previous years, saying what changes.
- 20:05So we've seen changes in 2025 from 2024, and we're seeing if
- 20:09that's a blip or whether that's going to be carried on to 2026.
- 20:13So the main part of the report will the next report
- 20:17will be about the current year with
- 20:21more data in it. And it's interesting because it's—
- 20:25we're now, you know, the pandemic of 2020
- 20:29reshaped the events industry, and for the next year or a couple of years,
- 20:33you know, there was so much chatter in the industry and on this podcast
- 20:37about getting back to live events and getting back to doing
- 20:41this, and we miss the industry. The reality is now we're
- 20:45we are now closer to being a decade on from the
- 20:49pandemic than we are to the pandemic itself.
- 20:52And I, without sort of blowing smoke,
- 20:56I see reports and, and the, the work that you guys are
- 21:00doing with reports like this and, and other organizations doing with their own reporting in
- 21:03the industry as being critical because that, that 10 years on from
- 21:072020, now when we get to 2030, I think there's going to be
- 21:11a lot of really, really good data available
- 21:15to see just how far we've progressed in that decade.
- 21:18Yes, and also the geopolitical events and what
- 21:22impact they have on events. And,
- 21:25um, you know, we're seeing it, uh, we saw some of it in 2025,
- 21:29and, um, yeah, there's more coming through in 2026.
- 21:33So politics of the world, situations going on
- 21:37in the world does have an effect on events. Well, we've seen that, we've seen
- 21:40that, haven't we, this year? I know, you know, I was working in the Middle
- 21:44East 3— in February, and I, I, I left
- 21:48the Middle East after a, a, a, a job there 3
- 21:52weeks before things, you know, started to go— well,
- 21:55started to kick off basically over there. And,
- 21:58you know, within a couple of weeks I was seeing emails and getting messages from
- 22:03people saying, oh, that event in, you know, Saudi Arabia has been cancelled,
- 22:06that event in Qatar has been cancelled, that one in the UAE has been cancelled.
- 22:10And we're talking sort of serious, you know, big multi-million,
- 22:14multi-billion pound events for international industries being,
- 22:18you know, shelved and put on the back burner, some postponed, some cancelled
- 22:22completely. And, um, I, I think sometimes we underestimate
- 22:26just how much business and, and how much, how big an impact it
- 22:30will have on the industry, the geopolitical aspects, as you, as you alluded
- 22:34to. Yeah, and, uh, travel as well. So, you know, just look
- 22:38at North America. Are less Canadians going across to American events?
- 22:42Um, is the footfall dropping or increasing? I'm not going to say anything
- 22:46about it, it's in the report. Um, but is that having an impact?
- 22:50Yeah, absolutely. It'll be fascinating to watch
- 22:54it. And it only occurred to me recently that, that the thing that I mentioned
- 22:58about the pandemic, that the sort of the, you know, we are closer to being
- 23:01a decade on from it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To it itself.
- 23:05And yet, you know, we still reference that period
- 23:09of time. We still reference the fact that, you know, it showed us just
- 23:12how much people wanted to be face-to-face and
- 23:16be in physical events. And it, in,
- 23:19in some, some respects, we don't need to say that anymore. I think everybody
- 23:23accepts that that is the case. What we need to do is move on
- 23:27and use tools like this, you know, know, your analytical
- 23:31tools and other organizations out there to really,
- 23:35you know, break down some of this information. I think one thing that's happened pre-pandemic—
- 23:39post-pandemic, sorry— is not necessarily the improvement
- 23:43of event technology, but the way that we use it and understand it.
- 23:47I think there almost seems to be that there was a tech industry in
- 23:51the events marketplace pre-pandemic,
- 23:55But what the pandemic forced us is to really
- 23:59adopt and identify that it was a critical part
- 24:03of the industry rather than a niche element of it, and that's
- 24:06been the biggest development for me over the last 6 years. Yeah, and we're shifting
- 24:11away from talking about the tech and talking more about the insights and what that
- 24:14delivers. Yes, the tech is part of what we need to deliver
- 24:19our services, but the important bit for our clients is the insights,
- 24:23what they get from that. Yeah,
- 24:26they're acting on it, they're dealing with it, and they're making improvements.
- 24:30And that's the other thing about events as well, is, you know,
- 24:33are more people going to events now? Because, you know, this is what we hear
- 24:37about AI, you know, there's so much you see on AI, whether you believe it
- 24:40or not, whether that's fake or real. And in
- 24:44order to touch it for yourself, you need to attend events, you actually see it.
- 24:48Yeah, I think we're seeing that trend without a doubt.
- 24:52Um, we've, we've been speaking about the report
- 24:55today. We mentioned, or I mentioned, that it's, it's going to be due out in
- 24:58August. Um, let's make sure that people know how,
- 25:02when, you know, what they need to do. So, um, if they want
- 25:07a copy of this report, where will they need to go? First of all,
- 25:10if they go to our website, uh, exposureanalytics.com,
- 25:14and they'll be able to click on to receive the report there. Fabulous.
- 25:19Publication date, uh, early August. Is it, um, a case of
- 25:23sort of register— can people register now, or will, will there be sort of a,
- 25:27a date, uh, when this sort of page will go live and people can start
- 25:31to, to access it? So on top of the Insights Report, we're doing a rebrand
- 25:35as well, so we're just getting everything in place. The aim is for the 8th
- 25:38of August. But obviously, you know, design work,
- 25:42we might not say, we're not sure about that, but the aim is for the
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- 26:17Um, which brings me nicely to just say thank you, uh,
- 26:20to my guest today, uh, Sales Director from, uh, Exposure Analytics,
- 26:23uh, and an old friend of mine. I, I hope you don't mind me saying
- 26:27that, Rob. Now I've known you long enough to say old
- 26:30friend. My second granddaughter arrived last week, so yeah, I'm getting older.
- 26:34Oh, absolutely. Congratulations to you and
- 26:38your family, mate. It's great. It's been great speaking to you today. Just a couple
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- 27:34So my thanks once again to my guest today, Rob Murdoch from Exposure
- 27:38Analytics. Keep your eye out for that report when it gets published, uh, early August,
- 27:42and we'll see you all on the next edition of the podcast. Thanks everybody.
- 27:46Thanks, James. Appreciate it.