What's the saying from that Shakespeare guy, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..." Well, all the world is now Eventbrite, and we're all merely attenders. They seem to have taken over the low-scale, event registration business. So if they are blogging about events, we should probably pay attention.

The U.S. B2B media and information industry saw a slow start to the first half of 2016, inching up 2.2 percent to $14.7 billion, compared to $14.3 billion in the first half of 2015, thanks to slowdowns in some key verticals, market uncertainties surrounding the presidential election, Brexit, and continued market corrections with digital advertising.