The Year Ahead is the most extensive resource for information on forthcoming events available and is used and relied upon by hundreds of companies that depend on the content to enable them to plan ahead effectively.
The website covers over 18,000 events, looking up to 10 or more years in advance. The annual hard copy Planner contains events covering the calendar year ahead. Over 1,500 new events and over 1,000 updates are added to the online service every month. It can be personalised in a variety of ways. Users can add their own events; set up alerts; save and tag searches; communicate with other users within an organisation and download information to Excel and Outlook.
Each event is researched at source and put into date context so users can see exactly what's happening across a broad range of sectors and industries during any given time-span.
As well as the basic framework information for an event, i.e. title, venue, contact and date, the Year Ahead content also provides unique event intelligence. This is information that is directly relevant to marketers and gives specific pointers as to how an event could provide a valuable opportunity.
The Year Ahead contains information on who is sponsoring an event, which events are seeking sponsorship, where a particular target market is going to be, when is the best time for an event organiser to organise an event.
The Year Ahead covers all categories from arts and business to sport and travel, and is categorised into event types including, exhibitions, conferences, awareness campaigns, awards and festivals. Users can search across many variables including speaker, target market, audience size, socio-economic group and location.
80% of the UK's Top PR Agencies (sourced from PR Week's Top 150 List) subscribe to Year Ahead, as well as many other respected organisations including The British Heart Foundation, News International, John Lewis, Thames Water, Marks & Spencer, Premier Travel Inns, Cap Gemini and National Lottery Promotions Unit.
- Every event listed provides an opportunity for either sales, PR, marketing or communications activity.
- Up to five different contacts are listed for each entry including event organiser, event promoter, sponsorship and speaker contacts.
- Coverage of international as well as domestic events.
- Established for over 12 years as the market leader.
