The Knowledge Show
Make Your Content
the Main Event
We turn your all-hands, training or conference content into a live competition: real participation, sharper recall, and a room that leans in and stays there.
Why It Works
Recall Beats Repetition Every Time
You can say it, slide it, and email the follow-up, and by Monday most of the room could not tell you what it was about. That is not anyone's fault, it is how attention works. Retrieval practice is the fix: people keep what they pull back out of their own heads, not what they simply take in. Put a fact behind a buzzer and a little pressure, and it lodges for good.
It is no gimmick. The same science sits inside every serious learning tool, from the language app on your phone to the way pilots are trained. The Knowledge Show just puts it on a stage.
It changes the room, too. People who would never speak up in a town hall will not put the buzzer down, which gives your quieter colleagues a way in and shows you exactly what has landed.
How We Build It
You Send the Material, We Do the Clever Part
There is nothing you need to dress up first. Send us the deck you were already going to present, or just the handful of things people genuinely need to walk away knowing. That is enough for us to work from.
We turn your messages into rounds and write them so the right answer is the one you wanted remembered. On the day, our host runs the whole thing live. You can stand up as the expert when it matters, or sit back and let the format carry the message for you. Either way, the work on your side is close to nothing.
Where It Earns Its Keep
The Sessions People Usually Dread
All-Hands & Town Halls
Get the quarter's numbers and priorities to land without the glaze setting in by slide six.
Onboarding & Induction
New starters who still remember week one when they reach week four.
Values & Culture
The fastest way to stop a values deck quietly becoming wallpaper.
Product & Sales Training
Test recall in the room, while you can still fix the gaps, rather than out in the field.
Compliance
The rare occasion "mandatory" and "people actually enjoyed it" end up in the same sentence.
Conference Content
A keynote your delegates can still quote back to each other over lunch.
Trusted by 20+ organisations that cannot afford to get it wrong, including:
Answers
Common Questions
What is The Knowledge Show?
The Knowledge Show is a format from On The Buzzer that turns your own presentation or key messages into a live, hosted competition. Instead of presenting information, your team competes over it, which makes far more of it stick.
Why does it help people remember the content?
It uses retrieval practice: people remember what they have to pull back out of memory, not what they simply hear. The same principle underpins learning and development tools, from language apps to professional training.
What do we need to provide?
Just the deck you were going to present, or a few key points your team needs to remember. On The Buzzer turns those into rounds and writes them so the right answer is the one worth keeping.
Does it work for remote or hybrid teams?
Yes. We run it in person, fully online, or as a hybrid. Remote players take part on exactly the same terms as everyone in the room: the same questions, the same scoring, and the same chance to win.
Will turning it into a game undermine a serious message?
No, as long as the competition is built around the content rather than bolted on. The message becomes the thing worth competing over, so it lands harder rather than being trivialised.
What if we don't have a polished deck?
You do not need one. A few bullet points and a clear sense of what really matters is plenty for us to build a session around.
No message to land, just a great night to put on? Then you want pure entertainment, and that is The Gameshow.
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Make Your Message Stick
From £900 per event
Tell us what your team needs to walk away knowing, and we will come back within 72 hours with how we would build it. Run a series through the year and the cost of each event comes down.
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