Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is changing as ‘generative search’ from AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini etc starts appearing as a traffic source in Google Analytics.  Nazma Noor, Digital Strategist at Cog, gives us the latest insights and includes a useful Looker Studio report template.

Google Tag Manager is a useful option for managing your website tracking tags. Nazma Noor, Digital Strategist at Cog, explains more about the basics including some top-tips and common mistakes they’ve seen across the arts and culture sector.  

These recipes for success give you all the ingredients you need to bring first-time audience members back again and again. A Spektrix resource created in collaboration with Indigo Ltd.

As part of the move to Google Analytics 4, Google’s old Universal Analytics website reporting platform stopped tracking data in July 2023. From 1st July 2024 users will lose access to historical data. Nazma Noor, Digital Strategist at Cog, takes us through the different options for saving historical website data with guidance on what to keep.

A playback pack from Digital Culture Network following their session at AMA’s Digital Marketing Day 2023. Includes slides and templates plus an additional eight resources to help you maximize your use of Google Analytics 4 ( GA4 ).

A collection of resources from the industry-leading arts and culture CRM solution, Tessitura.  These continue the discussion following their Next Level Marketing session at AMA’s Digital Marketing Day 2023. Insight and practical solutions on digital transformation, digital strategy and creating a data-driven culture.

The iBeholder pilot programme was developed to help discover new ways to gather audience data for non-ticketed visual arts organisations and boost the audience experience.  thrive, Northern Ireland’s audience development agency details everything that happened throughout the project and the insights uncovered.

Grant-making occupies a special place in the finance landscape for the social sector. Grants are the lifeblood of the sector, enabling charities and community groups to innovate, plan, develop and collaborate, often unlocking other income streams. However, not all grant-making currently achieves its full potential. A useful read for grant recipients as well as grant ... Read more

A DCMS commissioned report that outlines ways to strengthen cultural sector data to help ascertain its value and contribution to UK economy and society, enabling effective policy development. By MyCake, in association with the Audience Agency.

The cultural sector makes a significant contribution to people’s lives, to society and the economy – so why do we struggle to convey its impact? This study, led by the Centre for Cultural Value, shares findings from a national, interdisciplinary research project that aims to tackle the crisis the cultural sector is currently facing in ... Read more

Addressing bias in data involves transforming how we approach current practices for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and making decisions with data. Sarah Herrera, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, shares concepts of belonging and empowerment to explore ways to create small wins to drive momentum in your organization’s diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) work.

The 2021 update of Good Things Foundation‘s Digital Nation infographic gathers together the facts and stats about digital inclusion and exclusion in the UK. It uses new analysis of the latest Ofcom data by Prof. Simeon Yates alongside key sources such as Lloyds Bank UK Consumer Digital Index and Essential Digital Skills 2021, external research ... Read more

Whether you use data to influence your decisions, or if you consider your data to be influenced by the decisions you make, it’s a key component to helping your team works together to ensure the sustainability of your organisation. Lucy Costelloe, Ticketsolve guides us through the process. Ticketsolve is a Pioneer Sponsor of A New Adventure, AMA ... Read more

In this toolkit, thrive, NI’s audience development agency, looks at how to segment your audience. It includes why segmentation is important, the types of data you need, what type of segmentation will work best for your organisation and a step-by-step checklist.

In this toolkit, thrive, NI’s audience development agency, looks at how to evaluate loyalty, gather data on your audience’s loyalty and rate your own loyalty score.

Reporting your digital stats in a consistent way can be challenging as digital platforms use so many different metrics and analytics tools. In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Trish Thomas demonstrates the best ways to structure regular reports using stats and narrative collated across your website and social media channels. The session ... Read more

TRG Arts’ analysis of performing arts box office data at the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdown reveals catastrophic impact on both sides of the Atlantic. David Brownlee, Managing Director, Purple Seven, takes us through the findings.

Katie Cagney, Database & Research Manager at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, TWAM highlights three simple spreadsheet tricks that can help you get your data tidy. Plus best practices to help you create a data legacy for fundraising in your organisation.

In the first of a series of blogs on data, Katie Cagney, Database & Research Manager at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, TWAM covers graph dos and don’ts, some handy free insight tools, and discuss ways in which we as a sector could dig deeper into data, starting with data visualisation.

Rebecca Horrell, Digital Marketing Coordinator, Rambert analyses spikes in online engagement using Google Analytics as part of her Fellowship at Digital Lab.