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Emerald Expo Releases Registration Data for CEDIA Expo & CIX 2024

October 10, 2024 by Ted 1 Comment

The Crestron booth at CEDIA Expo 2023 which is put on by Emerald Expo
CEDIA Expo 2023

Emerald Will No Longer Report Event Attendance Numbers

Once again, the industry gathered to celebrate the world of custom integration last month at the CEDIA Expo 2024 in Denver, Colorado. An annual event that is part business conference, part education/training confab, and part social get-together & party, many in the industry look forward to this one-time seminal event in anticipation of finding the seeds of future business growth in the innovation shown there.

This week, Emerald Expositions released the registration numbers for CEDIA Expo & Commercial Integrator Expo 2024 (CIX), but did not disclose the verified attendance number. At first, I thought this was an oversight…

See more on data from CEDIA Expo 2024…

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Filed Under: Associations, Management, News, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Commercial Integrator Expo, Jason McGraw

CEDIA Expo 2023 Attendance Grows Slightly Over Last Year, Or Did It?

September 27, 2023 by Ted Leave a Comment

Savant booth at CEDIA Expo 2023

Attendance at this year’s CEDIA Expo, held in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from September 7-9, was a bit of an illusion. The Expo, which is owned and operated by Emerald Expositions, announced final attendance figures nearly two weeks after the event closed. At the event, many exhibitors expressed satisfaction with the number of attendees they saw – yet the final announced attendance numbers turned out to be not quite as significant as some had thought. How did that happen?

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Filed Under: News, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Emerald Expositions, Jason McGraw

CEDIA Expo 23 Day 2: The Gang’s All Here

September 8, 2023 by Ted 1 Comment

CEDIA Expo Day 1 show floor crowd

See some of my top picks from CEDIA Expo 23 Day 1

Well, the question I posed yesterday as to whether we’d see CEDIA Expo 2023 attendance up or down as compared to the show last year appears to have been answered. Aisles and booths were filled on Day 1 of the event, suggesting that CEDIA Expo 2023 attendance is not only ahead of last year’s numbers…but perhaps well ahead. So it seems we are all on a Rocky Mountain High.

But was there anything interesting to look at on the show floor? See some of the items I found interesting…

See more on Day 1 at CEDIA Expo 2023

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Filed Under: News, Products, Shows & Events, Technology Tagged With: AudioControl, Blackwire, CEDIA Expo, Harman Luxury Audio Group, Jason McGraw, RTI, Savant

EXCLUSIVE: AVIXA CEO Weighs In on Trade Assocs., Shows, Emerald & More

November 30, 2022 by Ted 3 Comments

Photo from InfoComm show, an AVIXA production

About five seconds into our phone call, before I even had a chance to explain myself, AVIXA CEO David Labuskes suddenly burst out: “Oh! I know why you called me!” This reaction caught me off-guard as we’d never spoken before. But when he went on to tell me why he thought I had called him, he was right on the money. It was a clue that he is a deeper thinker than many executives I reach out to, and as we spoke further, that impression only got stronger.

Another surprise was that Labuskes knew me (and Strata-gee) better than I realized…

Learn what the CEO of AVIXA shared with me in this EXCLUSIVE interview…

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Filed Under: Associations, Commercial, Management, Residential, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: AVIXA, Brian Pagel, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, David Labuskes, Emerald Expositions, InfoComm, ISE, Jason McGraw

ISUS in America? Emerald Adds a Commercial Show to CEDIA Expo; Exhibitors React

November 17, 2022 by Ted 7 Comments

Emerald owned CEDIA Expo 2022

Emerald Expositions (NYSE: EEX), the national B2B trade show company that owns CEDIA Expo, CE Pro, and Commercial Integrator surprised the industry at the recent CEDIA Expo 2022 by abruptly announcing that next year they will be “co-locating” a show for commercial integrators at the same time and in the same facility. Reaction to this announcement was…to put it mildly…mixed. Is Emerald trying to imitate the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show – an event for both residential and commercial businesses – by launching an ISUS (Integrated Systems United States) event??

Do you wonder why there was a mixed reaction to Emerald’s move? Read on…

See why some big exhibitors were not happy with the Emerald announcement…

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Filed Under: Associations, Brands, Commercial, Dealers, Integrators, Management, Media, News, Pivot Point, Residential, Shows & Events, Strategy, Training Tagged With: AVIXA, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, Commercial Integrator Expo, Emerald Expositions, ISE, Jason McGraw

Emerald, Calling CEDIA Expo ‘Solid,’ Releases Numbers That are Sobering

September 14, 2021 by Ted 7 Comments

A photo from the Emerald Expo produced CEDIA Expo 2021
[PHOTO: Emerald Expositions]

Emerald Expositions on Monday put out a final recap of the CEDIA Expo 2021 that took place earlier this month and while Group Vice President Jason McGraw called it “…a solid event,” the numbers they revealed told a much more sobering tale. Still, I need to say up front that I am actually impressed they released data from the event rather than the hazy and rough estimates as they have done in the past. It’s at least a step in the right direction towards some sort of transparency.

See some of the CEDIA Expo 2021 numbers

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Filed Under: News, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Emerald Expositions, Jason McGraw

Emerald: The Show WILL Go On!

August 19, 2021 by Ted 3 Comments

Emerald Holding logo

Emerald Letter Tries to Nail Down Remaining Exhibitors

On Wednesday, Emerald emailed a letter to exhibitors that appears to be an attempt to stem the outflow of companies that have canceled their participation in the CEDIA Expo 2021 – 42 brands according to Strata-gee’s tracking – and encourage those exhibitors that have not yet abandoned the show from leaving. Signed by Emerald executives Brian Pagel and Jason McGraw, the letter declared “the show is still very much on as planned.”

See more on the Emerald attempt to stem the tide leaving Expo

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Filed Under: Brands, Buying Groups, Dealers, Health, Integrators, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: Brian Pagel, CEDIA Expo, COVID-19, Delta variant, Emerald, Emerald Expositions, Jason McGraw

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