NAB Show Attendance Dips From 2018

LAS VEGAS — For the second year in a row, attendance this week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas was down, but not nearly as sharply as last year.

The official count is 91,460, down 1.6% from 92,912 in 2018. The 2018 total was off 10.2% from 103,443 in 2017.

As of Wednesday morning, the NAB had not yet released figures for the number of exhibitors and exhibition space. In 2018, they were 1,718 and 1,020,247, respectively.

The NAB also said there are 24,096 attendees from 160 countries from outside the U.S. this year. That’s 26.3% of total attendance.

“Once again, NAB Show is the premiere showcase for the latest advancements that reshaping the world of media, entertainment and technology,” said NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton in a statement.

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