In the first episode of season 2, we meet Justin Miller, whose startup, "Showplace," offers event organizers ancillary revenue by enabling them to tap in to the budding short-term rental product placement industry. 

Michael and Justin talk through how these fit within traditional sponsor packages, example placements, ideal events for capitalizing on this type of opportunity, and more.

On this special full video episode (audio is still awesome!) guest Chris Ruggiero from https://www.betweendreamssessions.com lays out the essentials for producing professional quality audio and video for livestream and pre-recorded virtual events. We walk though technique and setup basics, and potential gear on a smartphone based budget, and through cameras and mics for more advanced kits. Visit Event Hub for more info on our virtual expo, partnerships marketplace, and event management dashboard, click here.

In this special episode, Michael unpacks for guest host Amanda Cosenza of Festivate why Event Hub chose to rapidly develop a virtual expo / vendor village platform for their customers to support virtual 2020 programming with virtual partnerships. He discusses their unique approach which enables attendees to engage with sponsors and vendors in real time through video chat, while exploring products and services in a partner's virtual booth.

For more info on Amanda's digital marketing agency for events, Festivate, click here.

In this episode, Michael and Steve Adelman, the author of The Event Safety Alliance Reopening Guide, discuss patron messaging and enforcement of social distancing and face covering guidelines, to ensure a successful reopening of all sizes of live events. 

Steve then dives into the key aspects of tort law that generally will provide an event organizer legal cover against lawsuits from an upset citizen who claims to have contracted Covid-19 from attending a given event.

In this episode, Michael Bleau, CEO of Event Hub, speaks with Josh Sturgeon, Co-founder of digital marketing agency EmberTribe. Josh gives expert advise on what events should be doing from a digital marketing standpoint: whether they're dealing with cancelled events, postponed dates, or marketing for events scheduled for Q3/Q4 in 2020.

Event Hub CEO Michael Bleau invites Bryan Derbyshire, Founder of CEO of Protecht, onto the podcast to give the 411 on exactly what event ticket protection is, and how their tech-charged ticket protection product Fan Shield is unique. 

Bryan also explains how event organizers can benefit, both in aiding ticket pre-sales and with revenue as an ancillary revenue channel.

Finally, Michael and Bryan discuss how their respective companies are adapting to the challenges posed by the Coronavirus epidemic as they look to the future.

In this episode, Michael Bleau, CEO of Event Hub circles back with Teresa Stas, CEO of Green Cactus to discuss the current state of live event sponsorships as of 3/18, with so much having changed with the Covid-19 pandemic's rapid expansion. We discuss the best approaches to closing sponsorship sales in the current environment, how to manage sponsors who want to back out, and when we think sponsors will feel confident investing in event partnerships again. We also highlight some VERY important aspects of event cancellation coverage that helps explain why 70% of events are rescheduling vs cancelling for 2020.