OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Global Webinar & Event Marketing

191K+ Registrations
94K+ Attendances
84K+ Unique Registrants
51K+ Unique Attendees
6+ Global Regions
Industry: Education & Academic Publishing
Platform Ecosystem: BigMarker | Dotdigital | Salesforce | Power BI | Google Analytics
Campaign Type: Webinar & Virtual Event Marketing | Audience Acquisition | Performance Analytics
Reporting Period: 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
Role: Assistant Marketing Manager – Platforms

Business Challenge

Oxford University Press required a scalable global webinar programme capable of supporting high registration and attendance volumes across multiple countries and time zones while maintaining consistent event operations and reliable performance visibility.

The programme needed:

  • Scale registrations across international markets.
  • Manage high-volume event creation and registration workflows.
  • Support attendee management and post-event analysis.
  • Coordinate promotion across email, social, paid media and event pages.
  • Attribute registrations to individual marketing channels and campaigns.
  • Analyse total versus unique registrants and attendees.
  • Understand geographic audience distribution.
  • Identify acquisition and engagement trends to inform future planning.

Strategic Approach & Responsibilities

Supported the programme across event operations, marketing execution, campaign attribution and performance intelligence.

Key responsibilities included:

  • Supporting end-to-end event creation and management through BigMarker.
  • Managing and monitoring registration and attendee workflows.
  • Supporting promotional campaigns across Dotdigital, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Meta Ads and event pages.
  • Implementing and monitoring UTM parameters for campaign-level attribution.
  • Analysing traffic sources and referral domains.
  • Monitoring total and unique registration and attendance behaviour.
  • Analysing registrations by country and region.
  • Monitoring programme growth across campaign periods.
  • Using BigMarker analytics dashboards to identify audience and acquisition trends.
  • Supporting stakeholder reporting and translating event data into campaign insights.
  • Using performance trends to support future event planning, regional campaign strategy and audience segmentation.

Programme Scale & Performance

For the reporting period, the programme generated:

191,125 Total registrations
84K+ Unique registrants
94,527 Total attendances
51K+ Unique attendees

The registration trajectory demonstrated sustained audience growth, with particularly strong increases during key campaign periods between February–May 2025 and August–September 2025.

Global Audience Reach

Registrations were distributed across 6+ major global regions:

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Latin America
  • Middle East
  • Africa

This geographic visibility supported regional campaign planning, audience segmentation and localisation decisions.

Acquisition & Attribution

Within the displayed acquisition dataset:

Facebook 8,007
Dotdigital email 3,476
Event pages 1,278
Meta Ads 774

UTM-based attribution enabled registration performance to be evaluated at the channel and campaign level, providing greater visibility than aggregate registration reporting alone.

Business Impact

191K+ registrations generated at programme level.
94K+ total attendances, demonstrating significant engagement with the programme.
84K+ unique registrants and 51K+ unique attendees, demonstrating both audience scale and repeat participation.
6+ global regions represented within the audience.
8,007 Facebook-attributed registrations in the displayed dataset.
3,476 Dotdigital-attributed registrations.
1,278 event-page registrations.
774 Meta Ads registrations.
Established a connected framework across event technology, email, paid media, CRM, attribution and analytics.

Strategic Value

The programme transformed large volumes of event data into actionable visibility across audience acquisition, geography, channel contribution and engagement, supporting more informed decisions around future global webinar investment and campaign planning.