37%
of host bios say founder, co-founder or owner.
Professional events are a founder's channel. At host organisations, the leader we could match is a founder or co-founder 46% of the time.
OneHop Research · Industry Insights · November 2026
Who Runs the Room
Benchmarks for people who host professional events: who your peers are, how often they run, what they charge, when they schedule and how big their rooms get.
- event listings read
- 216,994
- professional events
- 71,520
- hosts profiled
- 20,940
- countries
- 160+
17 pages · 29 exhibitsExecutive summary
Nine findings from 216,994 event listings
We read public listings on four ticketing and community platforms, kept the 71,520 events that are about work, and profiled the 20,940 people and organisations who run them.
- 02
74%
of business and tech groups have a single organiser.
Those groups have a median of 71 members. Groups with five or more organisers have 1,093.
- 03
20x
the members, for groups that have run 100+ events.
Median membership climbs from 48 at one to four events to 946 past one hundred. Consistency compounds.
- 04
67%
of all events are run by the top tenth of hosts.
The top 1% alone account for 27%. A small group of serial hosts carries the category.
- 05
36%
of in-person events start between 5 and 8pm, Tuesday to Thursday.
Thursday alone takes 25% of the week. Breakfast and Saturday mornings are far less crowded.
- 06
US$34
is the median paid ticket on Eventbrite.
43% of professional events there are free. Networking sits near US$13; classes and conferences clear US$135 or more.
- 07
22
sign-ups is the median for an in-person event.
Only 13% pass one hundred. Small rooms are the norm, and 47% of listings ask guests to apply.
- 08
12%
of professional events are about AI or data.
It is the largest named theme, ahead of finance, real estate and careers.
- 09
38%
of hosts link to nothing they own.
Only 52% point to a website. For most hosts, the listing platform is the whole front door.
In the full report
The numbers behind each finding, and a scorecard for your own events
- 01
The market at a glance
How many professional events there are, and who lists them.
- 02
Who runs the room
The roles hosts give themselves, and who leads host organisations.
- 03
Alone or as a team
What a group looks like with one organiser, two, or five.
- 04
Cadence and the compounding effect
How audiences differ between hosts on their fifth event and their hundredth.
- 05
What gets hosted
Formats and themes, ranked.
- 06
When the room fills
The week, hour by hour: the crowded slots and the quiet ones.
- 07
Price, access and turnout
What hosts charge by format, who asks guests to apply, and how many sign up.
- 08
Where it happens
Cities, countries and how much has stayed online.
- 09
The digital front door
Websites, LinkedIn pages and the hosts with neither.
- 10
The host's playbook
Seven moves, and a scorecard to benchmark yourself against the top quarter and the top tenth.
How we did it
Public event listings read in early November 2026 on four ticketing and community platforms. Figures are medians and shares across hosts; sign-ups are not attendance. No attendee or member lists were read, and no person or organisation is named in the report.
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