
Food Sampling: Experiential Marketing Benchmarks Report
A proven way to learn from the wins and the mistakes of your closest competitors:
- Download: 75-Page Report plus Stand-Alone Executive Summary
- Support: Each report includes four 30-minute consultations (a $500 value), providing access to PortMA’s expertise, data insights, and support.
- Advantage: An Instant Competitive Advantage
What is included in CPG Foods Category?
- Bread & Bakery
- Canned Goods & Soups
- Condiments, Spices & Baking
- Dairy, Eggs & Cheese
- Frozen Foods
- Grains, Pasta & Sides
- Meat & Seafood
- Cookies, Snacks & Candy (i.e., Candy, Cookies, Edible Cookie Dough, Ice Cream, and Snacks)
Want to lean on our expertise?
Understand your audience and enhance your ROI with a single resource that allows you to combine data and creativity like never before.
While creativity is crucial, it’s granular data that makes the difference by giving you real direction. Understanding which venues to target, crowd sizes to work with, and the event frequency will put you ahead of the competition.
Validate
Designing a winning marketing campaign is only possible when you truly understand your audience.
By using our data to see the bigger picture, you can validate your ideas before spending a dollar of your marketing budget.
You can even use it to validate third party plans from outside vendors so that you can always see where the value lies.
Communicate
Once you’ve proven your idea to yourself it’s time to take it to the key stakeholders.
Everyone knows that experiential marketing should generate a sizable return, but it’s showing that your plan will make a return that really counts.
Move beyond aspirational statements and back your approach with numbers, analytics, and historical data.
Execute
Applying your comprehensive report to your business is simple because all you have to do is follow the appropriate use case.
Imagine being able to boost your ROI before you’ve even got started by strategically negotiating better venue and sponsorship agreements.
With the right data in the palm of your hand, you’ll always be in control.
Optimize
Experiential benchmarks are not just about making predictions.
Use them to establish the right KPIs for your campaign and then manage everything on the ground to make sure you meet your targets.
Once you’ve run the campaign and seen the data, you can full assess performance and deliver an even higher ROI with your next event sponsorship.
Want a lifetime of data today?
We’re ready when you are.

“PortMA understands how to analyze the true value of experiential marketing.”
Matt Sincaglia, VP, Strategy & Analytics at RedPeg Marketing

“Since our agency opened for business back in 2008, we’ve understood how important it is to measure the effectiveness of our programs – that’s why we’ve turned to PortMA.”
Jeff Snyder, Chief Inspiration Officer at Inspira Marketing Group

“Great communication, always prompt with timeliness, super helpful + knowledgeable, information/data provided is clear and concise and the team is always willing to walk through it with you!“
Alexandra Eischen, Connections Planning Specialist at fairlife, LLC
How does it work?
Report – Data – Summary
Our comprehensive report package is designed to put you in control of every stage of the event sponsorship process.
- Event Days: 6,225 Food Sampling Event Days
- Consumer Interviews: A Total of 41,437 Food Sampling Consumer Exit Interviews
- Interactions: 3,674,516 Food Sampling Consumer Interactions
- Samples: 4,077,415 Food Samples Distributed
- Campaign Budgets: Over $17,727,621 in Food Sampling Marketing Spend
- Attendance: Estimated 23,423,009 Food Sampling Event Venue Attendance
To make sure your creative processes never get overwhelmed by data, we’ve created three powerful resources that will tell you everything you need to know:
Executive Summary
Use our proven “Scorecard Reporting” approach to share new ideas and findings with senior management.
By being able to quickly and easily convey a whole new approach, you’ll be able to take control of the process like never before.
Benchmark Report
Dive into the details with a full description of the methodology, meaning, and context so you can see the reach, impact, and ROI trends across the industry.
Precisely what’s needed when you want to lean on a lifetime of experience.
Support/ Consultation
Go further with a dedicated analyst.
Gain even more insights from the data with a dedicated experiential marketing analyst who is always in your corner.
Your report purchase comes with four 30-minute consultations to be used for up to 6 months after purchase.
You can ask your analyst anything and everything:
- One-on-One or Team Training
- Sales Support/ RFP Response Assistance
- Survey/ Data Collection Architecture Design
- Data Dashboard Consulting/ Wire Frame Development
- Data Analysis Assistance or Completion
- Report Development Assistance or Completion
- Client Briefing Preparation, Attendance, or Meeting Leadership
The Experts You Can Trust
Validate – Communicate – Execute – Optimize
When you want to secure a lucrative ROI that will take your brand or business to new heights, we’ll connect you with the data that makes it happen.
Everything becomes simpler when you swap guesswork for data.