Five Years Later, a Handful of Conferences Reverse Course Back to Hybrid
A small but notable group of conferences that had dropped live hybrid for on-demand-only access reversed course in 2026, reinstating live remote attendance.
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On-Demand Libraries Start Charging Sponsors for Placement
As on-demand session libraries became the dominant content-access model, organizers began selling sponsors premium placement within the library in 2026.
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Regional Hub-and-Spoke Hybrid Events Get a Second Look
As live-hybrid settled into a niche role, some organizers tried a regional hub-and-spoke model in 2026 as a different way to extend event reach.
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Where Hybrid Events Actually Landed, Five Years Later
Five years after hybrid events became a pandemic necessity, 2025 data showed a settled, more modest role for hybrid formats than early predictions assumed.
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Event-Tech Vendor Consolidation, Round Two
A further consolidation wave swept event-technology vendors in 2025, concentrated among mid-sized platforms that had grown through the earlier acquisition wave.
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On-Demand Session Libraries Become the New Virtual-Attendance Baseline
As live virtual attendance declined, on-demand recorded session libraries became the default way conferences extended content reach beyond in-person attendees.
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The Hybrid Event Platform Market Consolidates Further
A second consolidation wave hit the hybrid event-technology market in 2024, as platforms that survived the 2020-2022 shakeout acquired smaller rivals.
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Why Some Organizers Are Quietly Dropping the Virtual Option
While flagship conferences maintained virtual access in 2023, a meaningful share of mid-sized organizers quietly discontinued their virtual and hybrid …
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Hybrid Event Budgets Finally Stabilize After Three Years of Guesswork
After three years of ad hoc hybrid production spending, 2023 was the year organizers started budgeting for hybrid formats with real historical data instead of …
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Why Most 2020-Era Virtual Event Platforms Are Already Obsolete
The virtual event platforms rushed out in 2020 solved an urgent problem fast, but that speed left them poorly positioned once needs shifted to hybrid.
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Why Hybrid Events Are Harder Than Either Fully Virtual or Fully In-Person
Serving an in-person and a remote audience at once sounds like combining two solved problems. It introduces failure modes neither format has alone.
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How the Pandemic Forced Conferences Online Overnight
Virtual event platforms existed before 2020, but COVID-19 turned them from a niche option into the industry's only viable format within weeks.
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