Plug-In Event Marketing

Event marketing consultancy

The Business of Events

Event marketing by people who’ve built
world-class events.

We’re the commercial partner event organisers bring in to grow registrations, sponsorship revenue and the strategy behind them.

Events we’ve grown

  • Money20/20
  • RAISE AI Summit
  • Paris Blockchain Week
  • Unleash
  • iFX Expo
  • Caravan, Camping & Motorhome Show

The events we’ve grown and the organisations whose brands and commercial performance we’ve worked across.

Money20/20
Ascential
Paris Blockchain Week
Unleash
iFX Expo
RAISE Summit
Motorhome & Caravan Show / Caravan, Camping & Motorhome Show
The Digital Commonwealth
Digital Assets Global Forum
UK-US Crypto Alliance
Roundtable Wednesdays
Ogilvy
Porsche
Centrica
WARC
Grey Group
British Gas
BT
CACI
Audi
Virgin Media
AA
BlackRock
American Express
Heathrow

Why events call us in

Every event has a commercial engine. Someone has to run it

  • Registrations plateau.
  • Sponsorship pipeline dries up.
  • The marketing team is spread across both and can’t get ahead of either.

The moments event businesses bring us in.

We take ownership of the commercial side of growth and get the numbers moving again, working alongside the team you already have, or becoming your team. It’s what we’ve spent our careers doing for some of the industry’s leading event brands.

What we do

Three ways to bring us in, depending on what the moment needs

We help event businesses launch, grow and transform, from setting the strategy to delivering the campaigns and building the capability to keep it going.

Results

The numbers behind the work

Commercial outcomes delivered across launches, audience growth and sponsorship, for events in twelve markets.

+0%
Audience growth delivered
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Year-on-year ticket revenue growth
+0%
Attendance growth in a single cycle
£0M+
Qualified sponsorship pipeline generated
£0M
Revenue supported through marketing and demand
0
New large-scale events launched
0
Markets supported internationally
0K+
Consumer attendees delivered yr on yr

Recent work

Where we’ve moved the number

Global fintech summit

Registrations had plateaued for three cycles. We rebuilt acquisition from the ground up.

A new audience strategy, a rebuilt demand engine and a sharper commercial offer to sponsors, all run alongside the team already in place.

+0%attendance growth in a single cycle
International conference series

A thin sponsorship pipeline was capping the event’s commercial ceiling.

We restructured the commercial packages, repositioned the proposition and rebuilt the outbound motion to convert at the value the event genuinely supported.

£0M+qualified sponsorship pipeline generated
Large-scale consumer event

A new event with no audience, launched into a competitive market.

We built the whole marketing engine behind it, from proposition through demand to on-the-day delivery, and took it from zero to a six-figure audience across its first two editions.

0K+consumer attendees delivered

What clients say

In their words

I worked with Jenn at Ascential where we drove the Money20/20 FinTech brand together. Hard to find a more results-driven marketeer who is also one of the best strategy drivers and implementors I have worked with. Also a joy to work with, whilst ensuring that she takes all on the journey with her.
Steve Clark·Event Director · Money20/20

The people

Led by people who have owned the target and delivered the results

Jennifer and Konstantinos have spent 40 years between them leading event marketing, accountable in their own roles for the registrations, sponsorship revenue and commercial results they’re now hired to grow.

Plug-In is built on that. A firm that understands the seat you’re in because they’ve sat in it, across conferences, exhibitions and large-scale consumer events in twelve markets.

40years between them leading event marketing across conferences, exhibitions and large-scale consumer events.
JenniferJ

Jennifer

Partner

20+ years leading event marketing, consumer and B2B marketing strategies.

KonstantinosK

Konstantinos

Partner

20+ years leading commercial marketing across event, SaaS and fintech businesses.

Start the conversation

Talk to us about your event

A straightforward conversation with a partner about your event, your ambitions and where growth has stalled. We’ll listen, ask the right questions and explore whether we’re the right partner to help you achieve your goals.

Based in

London, United Kingdom