NAB Show Releases Attendance Numbers

WASHINGTON--Attendance at the 2018 NAB Show was down 10 percent, according to numbers released by NAB this week.

Here is the breakdown (with 2017 numbers in parenthesis)

TOTAL REGISTERED ATTENDEES: 93,171 (103,443)

INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES: 25,550 (26,714)

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: 153 (161)

NUMBER OF EXHIBITORS: 1,718 (1,518)

SQUARE FEET OF EXHIBIT SPACE: 1,020,247 net square feet (1,063,380)

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