Eventbrite Ireland Blog
In 2020, virtual events took off. As societies around the world went into quarantine, and we couldn’t get together in person anymore, event creators and attendees found new ways to connect on Eventbrite. Even as in-person events have begun to return to our service, we’re finding that the success of virtual experiences has fundamentally changed the events landscape. Virtual events, our data suggests, aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Need proof? Here’s our expert analysis of an eventful year’s worth of online programming.
A meaningful shift online
Despite the dizzying changes to daily life that took hold in early 2020, both creators and consumers got on board with virtual events fairly quickly. Our data shows that by June 2020, attendees were spending 28x more time attending virtual events than they had been in January 2020. In November, that figure jumped to 34x more than in January. In total this year, nearly 75 million attendees registered for more than one million virtual events on our platform and logged over 100 million hours.