NEW YORK, NEW YORK, JANUARY 16, 2023 – CommerceNext, the leading U.S. ecommerce conference and community, today announced a majority investment from CloserStill Media, the producer of market-leading business events, exhibitions and conferences.
“Joining forces with CloserStill gives CommerceNext the resources to deliver even more amazing conferences and events for our growing community of ecommerce executives,” said CommerceNext co-founders Scott Silverman, Veronika Sonsev and Allan Dick. “We look forward to tapping into CloserStill Media’s deep experience in delivering best-in-class business conferences to bring more value to the CommerceNext community.
CommerceNext produces highly-rated ecommerce conferences and events including its annual summit, The Ecommerce Growth Show, as well as webinars, executives dinners, curated networking events and industry research. Net Promoter Scores (NPS) for its annual conference far exceed industry averages and consistently top 50.
CommerceNext was founded in 2017 and has consistently delivered critical content and networking opportunities to its community of ecommerce and marketing leaders — even through the Covid pandemic where it launched and grew a number of virtual events to keep its community connected and informed as the ecommerce industry experienced dramatic changes.
CommerceNext will retain its existing operating structure with co-founders Scott Silverman, Veronika Sonsev and Allan Dick leading the business working alongside CloserStill Media’s U.S. leadership led by Yancy Weinrich, President, North America.
“We are delighted to be bringing the CommerceNext U.S. conferences and events business into ClosersStill Media U.S. CloserStill runs successful ecommerce events in the UK, Singapore and Spain, so, this will allow the teams at CommerceNext and CloserStill Media to collaborate globally with the content, commercial sales and audience development to add even more firepower to the already successful events around the country” said Yancy Weinrich, President, North America.
CloserStill Media is one of the fastest-growing global events businesses, operating best-in-class business-to-business events throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. The company delivers events across a range of industry verticals and runs one of the world’s largest portfolios of ecommerce events, which include:
- Ecommerce Expo UK, the UK’s largest and most established ecommerce event, with over 300 exhibitors and 11,000 visitors. Ecommerce expo UK is collocated with Technology for Marketing, The UK’s definitive martech event.
- E Show Barcelona and E Show Madrid, Southern Europe’s largest ecommerce events, delivers over 400 exhibitors and 15,500 visitors across the 2 shows. (Madrid, 300 exhibitors 8000 attendees in 2022, 300 exhibitors, 7500 attendees in Barcelona). CloserStill also runs a 1-2-1 meeting events in Spain for the ecommerce sector called eForum.
- Ecommerce Expo Asia is the region’s largest ecommerce event taking place annually in October at Marina Sands Hotel delivering more than 3,000 ecommerce professionals. CloserStill Asia also produces the Retail Executive Summit in April, a C-suite level event for retail professionals.
CommerceNext’s 2023 annual summit, The Ecommerce Growth Show, will be held on June 20-21, at the New York Hilton Midtown.
About CommerceNext
CommerceNext is a community, event series and conference for marketers at retail and direct-to-consumer brands. In addition to the annual CommerceNext Ecommerce Growth Show and the esteemed CommerceNexty Awards program, CommerceNext also produces and hosts podcasts, webinars, industry research, an executive dinner series and an online community. Inc. Magazine named CommerceNext to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2022 and also included the CommerceNext Ecommerce Growth Show in their list of the Top 5 e-commerce conferences for 2019/2020. The next CommerceNext summit takes place June 20-21, 2023, at the New York Hilton Midtown. To learn more about CommerceNext, visit https://commercenext.com.
About CloserStill Media
CloserStill Media specializes in high-value, content-driven events and the nurturing of B2B or professional communities. The company operates events across a wide range of vertical sectors in the U.S., Europe and Asia, with operations in the U.K., New York, California, Germany, Spain and Singapore. Our portfolio includes some of the fastest-growing, and often award-winning, events including the DevLearn, London Vet Show, Cloud Expo Europe, New York Vet, The Pharmacy Show, Learning Technologies and The Dentistry Show.
CloserStill is the fastest-growing exhibition organizer in international markets according to the eighth annual Sunday Times International Track 200. In addition, the Financial Times FT1000 Index named CloserStill the fastest growing exhibition organizer in Europe. CloserStill’s ranking is the highest of any exhibition organizer since the Sunday Times Fast Track series inception.
In the last 10 years, CloserStill has been repeatedly recognized as a leading innovator with its teams and events winning multiple awards (over 50 in total) including Best Marketing Manager—five years in succession—Best Trade Show, Best Launch Exhibition, Best Brand Extension, Rising Star—two years in succession—Best Operations Manager, Best Sales Person, Management Team of the Year and was voted ‘Most Respected Company of the Year’ at the 2016 Association of Event Organizers Excellence Awards.
