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A survey recently conducted by onebite, a UK B2B technology and telecommunications marketing agency, has revealed that 91% of journalists have attended virtual events during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The survey was specific to UK journalists and was answered by 45 people.

Two thirds of those surveyed said that virtual events delivered what they needed in terms of content, but that the approach they had to take was different to physical conferences; 12% said that they got the same results and in the same way as physical conferences and 14% believed the events were ‘wasted time’ as they did not provide what they needed.

‘Exclusivity’ and ‘real time access to speakers’ were cited as strong reasons to attend future events, with quality of content the leading factor for future event attendance for 64% of respondents, and exclusivity and real time content access valued by 32% of respondents.

Despite this, over half of those surveyed (59%) said that in-person experiences were better than virtual.

When asked what the problems with virtual events were, 43% of respondents said there were no opportunities to get ‘unplanned’ stories beyond what was scheduled, 41% said virtual events don’t offer the same experience as physical events, 35% stated that there are too many virtual events taking place, and 27% said that time spent at virtual events was less productive than time at physical events.

When considering a return to conferences, 41% of those surveyed said they would return at the same rate as before, 23% would return at lower rates than previously, and only 7% won’t go back at all. A quarter of journalists said they would make a decision on their return to events in 2021.

SOURCE: Conference & Meetings World

Here, at Cavendish Venues, we are preparing for reopening of our venues – updated health and safety processes, enhanced cleaning schedules, protective wear, one way systems, sanitising stations, social distancing, aircon maintenance etc..

We are ready to open our doors to the public once again, so if you are looking for conference venues, meeting rooms, training rooms, workshop venues or any other event spaces, please do get in touch! If you are concerned about room capacities, we are working with an amazing software and can produce detailed seating plans with social distancing rules applied. We also have the best range of hybrid events available. Whether you’d like to combine your physical location with interactive virtual presence and run a hybrid conference or just a simple web streaming, we have the tech, the team and extensive experience to make your event a success!