--- title: Case Study – WIND ENERGY UPDATE SOUTH AFRICA 2016 | Evvnt description: Wind Energy Update South Africa 2016 was the industry’s biggest and best platform for business-critical networking, learning and commercial growth. 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Featuring industry decision-makers (Biotherm, Acciona Energy South Africa, Mulilo Energy Partners, Eskom), high-level representations from government and private sector. The conference was co-located with PV Insider & [CSP Today South Africa](https://evvnt.com/2016/07/case-study-csp-today-south-africa-part-new-energy-update-south-africa/) to bring even more senior representatives from governments, regulatory bodies, investors, financiers, and the opportunity to facilitate cross-industry collaboration, and retain the in-depth technical discussions in the Wind Energy Update conference. **WIND ENERGY UPDATE** team were looking for a simple solution to submit events with a time saving tool, a new audience reach and event marketing momentum that ‘pings’ activity into natural search – the solution is **evvnt**. **Organiser: [Wind energy update](http://www.windenergyupdate.com/south-africa/)** ![1Description of the event](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1Description-of-the-event.jpg) ## WIND ENERGY UPDATE SOUTH AFRICA 2016 #### on Wednesday June 08, 2016 at 9:00 am (ends Thursday June 09, 2016 at 4:00 pm) **Information:** South Africa’s premier wind energy conference and exhibition returned for its 3rd year as the industry’s key meeting place. ![2Broadcast and Publish](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2Broadcast-and-Publish1.jpg) We published to over **200** event sites and watched as the sites supplied live links – submitted sites go live within 24 hours to 7 working days. ![3Share our expertise](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3Share-our-expertise.jpg) We ensured was distributed across all relative event listing sites locally, nationally, globally and socially with a **total site reach of 25.8M!** ##### Industry specific: 30 ##### Targeted: 67 ##### Global: 14 ##### National: 10 ##### Local: 1 ##### Social: 2 ![4Use targeted sites](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/4Use-targeted-sites.jpg) We wanted to reach the maximum number of potential event attendees to participate in the event, we promoted the event to a wide network of industry publishers composed of **30 Industry specific, 67 targeted, 14 global, 10 national, 1 local and 2 social.** The following images are examples of the event listed on targeted listing sites: ![5Natural search results](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/5Natural-search-results.jpg) #### **Click on the logos below to view listing results:** [![Google](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Google-good1.jpg)](https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=WIND+ENERGY+UPDATE+SOUTH+AFRICA+2016+(Part+of+New+Energy+Update+S.Africa)) [![Yahoo](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Yahoo-good.jpg)](https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=WIND+ENERGY+UPDATE+SOUTH+AFRICA+2016+%28Part+of+New+Energy+Update+S.Africa%29&fr=yfp-t-UK003) [![Bing](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bing-good.jpg)](https://www.bing.com/search?q=WIND+ENERGY+UPDATE+SOUTH+AFRICA+2016+%28Part+of+New+Energy+Update+S.Africa%29&go=Envoyer&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=wind+energy+update+south+africa+2016+%28part+of+new+energy+update+s.africa%29&sc=0-73&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=250C0A3223A44987A8D2CB8A2AAC078A) [![Ask](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ask-good.jpg)](http://uk.ask.com/web?q=WIND+ENERGY+UPDATE+SOUTH+AFRICA+2016+%28Part+of+New+Energy+Update+S.Africa%29&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir&qo=homepageSearchBox) [![Aol](https://evvnt.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Aol-good.jpg)](http://search.aol.co.uk/aol/search?query=WIND+ENERGY+UPDATE+SOUTH+AFRICA+2016+%28Part+of+New+Energy+Update+S.Africa%29&s_it=aoluk-homePage50&s_chn=hp&rp=&s_qt=) We can grow your audience reach and achieve better natural search. 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