The data displays the leading reasons for running events for marketing purposes according to B2B and B2C marketers worldwide as of September 2017. According to 29% of B2B marketers lead generation was the leading reasons why they were using event marketing. For 28% of B2C marketers the main goal of event marketing was community building.
Lead generation and sales | 25 | 29 | 18 |
Community building | 25 | 23 | 28 |
Other | 18 | 16 | 21 |
Brand awareness | 17 | 15 | 20 |
Customer relations | 12 | 14 | 8 |
Employee training | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Recruiting | 1 | 0 | 2 |