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Attendance and Demographics
All our figures are based on the number of visitors who attended the show, not total registrations
| IBC2009 | IBC2008 | IBC2007 | IBC2006 | IBC2005 | IBC2004 | ||||
| Exhibiting companies | 1,355 | 1,451 | 1,360 | 1,289 | 1,230 | 1,137 | |||
| Total registrations | 74,478 | 77,041 | 73,824 | 69,073 | 65,659 | 60,342 |
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| No shows & duplications | 28,931 | 27,791 | 26,860 | 24,265 | 22,844 | 19,566 | |||
| Visitors | 30,708 | 33,046 | 31,417 | 31,155 | 29,650 | 28,693 | |||
| Exhibitors | 14,839 | 16,204 | 15,547 | 13,653 | 13,165 | 12,083 | |||
| Total attendance | 45,547 | 49,250 | 46,964 | 44,808 | 42,815 |
40,776 | |||
| Visitors | 67.4% | 67.1% | 66.9% | 69.5% | 69.25% | 70.3% | |||
| Exhibitors | 32.6% | 32.9% | 33.1 | 30.5% | 30.75% | 29.7% | |||
| Total attendance | 100% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |||
| Geographical breakdown | |||||||||
| W. Europe & Scandinavia | 74.19% | 71.26% | 70.59% | 74.0% | 73.1% | 73.76% | |||
| Central Europe | 3.95% | 4.77% | 5.24% | 5.1% | 5.1% | 5.0% | |||
| Eastern Europe | 2.62% | 2.83% | 4.62% | 3.4% | 3.6% | 3.49% | |||
| North America | 7.73% | 8.61% | 8.65% | 7.3% | 7.9% | 7.19% | |||
| Asia | 7.41% | 8.07% | 6.87% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 7.10% | |||
| Middle East | 2.37% | 2.59% | 2.4% | 2.5% | 2.4% | 2.27% | |||
| Africa | 1.1% | 1.11% | 1.0% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 0.77% | |||
| South America | 0.63% | 0.76% | 0.63% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.42% | |||
| Total attendance | 100% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |||
| Purchasing Power | |||||||||
| Recommend/specify | 38.79% | 39.46% | 37.93% | 39.35% | 39.98% | 36.92% | |||
| Final approval/buy | 37.60% | 35.44% | 37.80% | 34.10% | 34.71% | 36.39% | |||
| User | 17.10% | 16.32% | 7.50% | 16.00% | 15.00% | 15.67% | |||
| Other (inc press) | 6.51% | 11.78% | 16.77% | 10.55% | 10.31% | 11.02% | |||
| Total attendance (excl exhibitors & distributors) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |||
| Company Size | |||||||||
| 1 to 10 employees | 31.29% | 22.57% | 25.06% | 23.24% | 24.12% | 30.66% | |||
| 11 to 50 employees | 23.57% | 23.53% | 16.45% | 23.08% | 23.65% | 22.23% | |||
| 51 to 250 employees | 16.90% | 19.7% | 31.04% | 19.66% | 20.45% | 16.24% | |||
| More than 250 employees | 28.24% | 34.2% | 27.45% | 34.02% | 31.78% | 30.87% | |||
| Total attendance (excl exhibitors & distributors) | 100% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |||
| Job Function | |||||||||
| CEO/ Director | 28.99% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||
| Sales & marketing | 17.26% | 19.26% | 21.37% | 26.88% | 26.42% | 17.9% | |||
| Technical | 18.29% | 28.15% | 28.06% | 23.72% | 24.53% | 28.0% | |||
| Corporate | n/a | 19.46% | 19.99% | 18.75% | 17.55% | 18.90% | |||
| R&D | 6.19% | 7.86% | 7.25% | 8.99 | 9.11% | 8.20% | |||
| Operations | 7.20% | 10.58% | 10.91% | 8.11 | 8.42% | 9.80% | |||
| Journalist | 1.94% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||
| Press | 1.72% | 0.94% | 2.94% | 3.73% | 4.14% | 5.50% | |||
| Programming | 2.39% | 2.78% | 2.47% | 2.35 | 2.72% | 2.99% | |||
| Consultant | 6.88% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||
| Other | 9.14% | 8.16% | 7.01% | 7.47 | 7.11% | 8.71% | |||
| Total | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |||
| Company Activity | |||||||||
| Broadcasting station/ network | 9.11% | 15.69% | 18.23% | 19.37% | 18.91% | 18.70% | |||
| Dealer/distributor | 7.28% | 10.95% | 12.3% | 10.07% | 10.99% | 11.40% | |||
| Post production | 6.01% | 8.17% | 7.43% | 6.53% | 9.09% | 9.70% | |||
| Production | 5.38% | 7.78% | 8.40% | 6.54% | 8.95% | 8.50% | |||
| Manufacturing | 11.89% | 19.34% | 6.18% | 19.37% | 6.35% | 5.90% | |||
| Broadband services | 10.34% | tbc | 5.11% | 6.47% | 6.14% | 5.60% | |||
| Consulting | 4.70% | 4.49% | 6.31% | 5.33% | 6.11% | 5.90% | |||
| Freelance | 3.24% | 3.08% | 3.27% | 3.11% | 4.61% | 4.70% | |||
| Cable/satellite Distribution | 3.31% | 4.48% | 4.17% | 4.59% | 4.43% | 4.70% | |||
| Studio & equipment hire | 2.61% | 1.92% | 3.04% | 1.79% | 2.65% | 2.60% | |||
| Web development | 1.09% | 2.48% | 1.34% | 1.33% | 2.1% | 2.10% | |||
| Research association | 0.97% | 1.11% | 1.29% | 1.28% | 1.46% | 1.50% | |||
| Telecommunications/ Mobile Operator |
3.08% | tbc | 0.91% | 0.79% | 1.06% | 2.00% | |||
| Broadcast Union/association | 0.40% | 2% | 0.73% | 0.87% | 0.91% | 0.80% | |||
| Systems Integrator | 5.54% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||
| Duplication | n/a | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.22% | 0.25% | 0.30% | |||
| Other (incl press & PR) |
25.05% | 15.73% | 19.4% | 18.36% | 13.58% | 15.60% | |||
| Total attendance (excl exhibitors) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |


