Trade Shows Are Back

Trade shows are back.

Not out of nostalgia. Because the booth is the last place where a real person talks to a real person.

Every digital channel is drowning

Think about the channels you used to count on. Cold email answers itself now: a bot wrote it, a bot filtered it, and if you got a reply, a bot probably wrote that too. Ads get scrolled past on reflex. Feeds are filling with content nobody wrote for anybody in particular. Digital marketing is not dead, but it is drowning, and the water rises every year.

There is one channel left where you cannot be faked, filtered or scrolled past: face to face. The booth. The showroom floor. The gallery. The lobby. When someone walks up to you at a show, you know three things no click can ever tell you: they are real, they chose to be there, and they care enough to stand in front of you.

A handshake is now the most credible signal in marketing.

Exhibitors have figured this out. The U.S. B2B exhibition market is forecast to pass its pre-pandemic size this year, at nearly $16 billion. Companies are not going back to the show floor out of habit. They are going back because it is the channel that still works.

We have been here the whole time

Flow Kiosk has spent over a decade building iPad kiosks for the places people actually meet. Dolby’s trade show booths. The Smithsonian. Independence Hall and the National Park Service. DJI, Daltile, Desktop Metal, American Racing. Museums, visitor centers, showrooms and retail floors around the world.

We have watched convention Wi-Fi fail a thousand times. That is why Flow Kiosk never needed it.

A visitor exploring a product catalog on a Flow Kiosk iPad at a trade show booth, 2019.
Dolby
Independence Hall, National Park Service
DJI
Daltile
Desktop Metal
Assurant
American Racing
Gates Foundation Discovery Center

FlowKiosk 3.0 is built for this moment

Our biggest release ever, and every piece of it exists to make the face-to-face channel measurable, reliable and easy.

Zero lost leads. Guaranteed.

Every entry is saved on the iPad the moment a visitor taps submit, then synced exactly once when you are back online. If Flow Kiosk ever loses a submitted lead, we refund you.

No lines at your kiosk

Visitors scan a QR code and finish the form on their own phone. The lead still joins their kiosk visit.

Leads where you work

Delivered to Google Sheets, Zapier, any webhook and email, with what each visitor viewed.

QR Code Remote 2.0

Browse, control and present from any phone. Nothing to install, several phones at once.

Narrow on purpose

The big platforms in this space sell every screen: video walls, signage networks, any device, any OS, with demo calls, integration projects and partner ecosystems. We sell one thing: the iPad, perfected. One device means offline that actually works, security built on Apple’s own Guided Access, setup measured in minutes, and pricing you can read without booking a call. $20 a month per iPad, guarantee included.

Built for the places people meet

Trade shows

Attract with video, capture every lead with or without Wi-Fi.

iPads at trade shows →

Museums

Interactive exhibits that are secure, offline and unattended.

The museum kiosk guide →

Events

Conferences, launches and pop-ups. Set up in minutes, tear down in seconds.

Info centers

Visitor centers, lobbies and wayfinding that never need a docent.

Retail

Product stories, catalogs and sign-ups right at the shelf.

Show season is here

Turn your iPad into the best employee at the booth.

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Market size: CEIR / PwC forecast for the U.S. B2B exhibition industry, projected to reach approximately $15.8 billion, surpassing its 2019 size of $15.6 billion.