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How to Turn Events and Trade Shows Into a UGC Bonanza

Mobilize attendees, employees, and partners as your event capture team. Turn one show into ten reusable user-generated assets.

Why this works

A pro crew captures 30 hours at the booth. Fifty employees and partners with phones in their pockets capture 300 hours across the entire event. Treating attendees and employees as a distributed UGC team gives you reach and authenticity no single camera can deliver.


Who you'll feature

  • Employees attending the event. Booth staff, exec attendees, sales reps walking the floor.

  • Partners and customers who said yes to being part of the capture.

  • Speakers and panelists from your team.


How to capture it

  • A week before the event, send every internal attendee a Request through MarketScale → Requests with three prompt types: a 30-second booth selfie, a 60-second "who I met today," a 90-second "what I heard."

  • Use AI Writer to draft a participant-friendly capture brief.

  • For longer-form content, pair the UGC with Remote recording for post-event reflections.

  • Stitch the best clips with a compilation video.

  • For polished anchor pieces, book an Onsite Video Booking at the booth for the same days.


Reuse it (the 1:10 framing)

One UGC-led event becomes:

  1. A daily UGC compilation reel.

  2. A 3-minute event recap stitched from employee and attendee clips.

  3. Per-employee LinkedIn posts (one each, posted in their voice).

  4. A partner-co-branded clip per participating partner.

  5. A blog post on "what our team heard at [event]."

  6. A sales-enablement library of attendee-facing clips.

  7. A recruiting asset showing the company in action.

  8. An onboarding clip for new hires on "how we run events."

  9. A press-pack hook.

  10. A pinned event playlist on your Channel feed.

Bundle the clips into a Collection in Sales Team Materials. Sales and partners use it for follow-up the next morning.


Common mistake

Telling employees to "capture whatever they see." The result is unfilterable. Send three specific Requests with clear prompts and a 60-second time cap each, and the same employees produce content that's actually usable, not just abundant.

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