Who Talent Crunch reaches

Headline numbers

• 50+ events run since 2023
• ~4,300 registrations across our ticketed events
• ~880 people at our events in 2026
• ~300 companies represented in 2026
• ~8,000 LinkedIn followers, grown with no paid promotion
• ±3,900 combined newsletter and event email receivers

~35% return the same year

• ~35% of the people who registered in 2026 registered for a second event in the same year.
• ~35% registered for two or more events.
• ~16% registered for three or more events.
• ~9% registered for four or more events.
• Our most frequent member attended 9 events.

Seniority

• Practitioner, up to Principal level ~49%
• Manager ~22%
• Director ~14%
• VP, C-level and Founder ~15%
• About 51% are Manager level or above and about 29% are Director level or above, based on self-reported titles in 2026.
• Two independent counts, the same result: ~51% at Manager level or above across event registrations, and ~49% across Slack community applications.

Company size

• 1 to 50 employees ~19%
• 51 to 200 employees ~20%
• 201 to 1,000 employees ~19%
• 1,001 to 10,000 employees ~22%
• 10,001 and above ~20%
• About 39% work at companies under 200 people and about 42% at companies over 1,000.

Company stage

• Enterprise and listed ~30%
• Late stage, Series D and beyond ~10%
• Growth, Series B to C ~15%
• Early stage, pre-seed to Series A ~23%
• Agencies, services and education ~22%

~72% work in Talent or HR

• Function: Human Resources and Talent Acquisition ~72%; other functions (engineering, IT, product, operations, sales, marketing, business development) ~28%.
• Industry: technology, software and IT services ~35%; financial services and banking ~7%; all other industries ~58%.

Roles represented

• Talent Crunch covers talent acquisition, talent operations, talent development, talent management and HR, employer branding, alongside people managers and hiring managers.
• A vendor selling into hiring reaches the practitioner, the budget holder and the internal customer at the same event.

Companies represented

• Companies sending three or more people to Talent Crunch events in 2026: Aleph Alpha, Almedia, Ashby, Babbel, Delivery Hero, Doctolib, Flaconi, GetYourGuide, Greenhouse, HelloFresh, HeyJobs, Kolibri Games, Kooku, Leapsome, Moss, N26, Nilo Health, Parloa, Satellite Talent, Staffbase, Talon.One, tonies, Tourlane, Wolt, Zalando.

Berlin-based, ~100 cities reached

• ~66% Germany, ~20% rest of Europe, ~14% rest of the world, across around 100 metropolitan areas represented.
• Cities represented include Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Prague, Vienna, Zurich, Warsaw, Bucharest, Helsinki, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Toronto, New York and San Francisco.

No-show policy

• In 2026 we introduced a red list: anyone who registers for an in-person event in Berlin and does not show up cannot attend any Talent Crunch in-person event for three months.
• We review every single person who registers, so the guest list a sponsor sees is the room a sponsor gets.
• In 2026 this brought our no-show rate down to a record low of ~3%.

~88% rate events 4 or 5 stars

• In 2026 we collected around 220 ratings across sixteen events.
• ~72% rated an event five out of five and ~88% rated an event four or five.

Email reach

• Newsletter: ~1,900 subscribers on our email platform.
• Event platform newsletter: ~1,950 contacts from our event platform.
• ±3,900 combined newsletter and event email receivers, before overlap between the two.
• Newsletter performance: ~60% opened, ~34% click-to-open, with no campaign this year passing a 1% unsubscribe rate.

Contact

Email info@talent-crunch.com.