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Leading event marketing goals and strategies worldwide in 2017

Leading reasons for running events for marketing purposes according to B2B and B2C marketers worldwide as of September 2017

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