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At Seamless, we love sharing industry best practices about audio visual solutions for events. While we focus on full-service AV, we have a broad goal: to help deliver the highest quality attendee experience budgets will allow! Our Featured FAQ: When planning virtual or hybrid events, when does it make sense to broadcast live versus pre-record?Read more

Virtual events have quickly evolved from a pandemic stopgap to a must-have component for many organizations grappling with event planning strategy. In fact, a recent survey of global B2B executives found that 68% expect virtual events to be a more significant part of in-person events in the future. (Source: Report One – Anatomy of VirtualRead more

Seamless CEO Laurel Miller weighs in on creating quality hybrid events Before February 2020, most in-person events with a live stream component treated the remote viewer like a second-class citizen. Now that our industry and our attendees have experienced fully virtual events built for a remote participant, though, we have an interesting challenge: how doRead more

As pandemic restrictions ease up, those of us in the event industry are ready to get back to holding in-person events. But are attendees ready to join us? Understanding your audience’s preferences Before you rework or plan your upcoming meeting or event, we recommend understanding your audience’s preferences. Travel, comfort with in-person gathering, remote viewingRead more

We all want to meet live and in-person again. After the last year, there’s an appreciation for the excitement, engagement, networking, and sales/sponsorship opportunities that happen when we share physical space.  As of Spring 2021, we’re at an in-between moment. We might be able to get back together face-to-face — or mask-to-mask — in someRead more

Virtual events continue to dominate the event planning industry. However, a growing number of planners are wondering about hybrid models, which can include a mix of in-person and virtual attendees. Savvy event planners know hybrid events bring a new set of challenges to solve! In this 3-minute “Toolkit Tuesday” clip, Proper Planning’s Lynn Edwards andRead more

Virtual Events Are the Safest Bet Through Fall 2021, Say the Industry Pros This year’s million dollar question: when will in-person events actually be able to happen again? Realistically, no one has a concrete answer yet and there’s still a lot of confusion along with conflicting opinions. However, industry pros weighed in on the questionRead more

I recently joined my colleague Lynn Edwards, an expert in the event planning industry, for an interview on “Toolkit Tuesday”, her weekly video series that focuses on bringing event professionals the latest tips and tricks from around the industry.  We shared a lot of stories and covered important topics ranging across: The importance of makingRead more

How Seamless Events Helped Me Pull Off a Hybrid Meeting A Guest Blog Post by Jim Plymale, Vistage Chair As a chair of two Vistage peer advisory groups, I have one measure of my success: setting up and facilitating meetings that deliver value to my group members. Meetings are notoriously hard to do well duringRead more