Katie Moffat, Head of Sector Engagement (Europe), Substrakt shares successful social media examples from arts and cultural organisations. Full of ideas and inspiration to help increase engagement with your content and connect with your audiences.

Digital marketing specialist and freelance blogger Tomas McKannie outlines the differences between Facebook Ads and Google Ads and how to decide which option is the best for your next campaign.

Juan Reino, Marketing and Events Coordinator, Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM) explores the effectiveness of Facebook Ads. Part of his Fellowship at Digital Lab. 

Joanne Karcheva, Head of Marketing and Communications,  Manchester Collective, shares her experiments and how to make genuine engagement between musicians and audiences. Part of her Fellowship at Digital Lab.

In this Digital Heritage Lab webinar recording Annie Andoh provides an introduction to the essentials of developing a social media strategy — how to plan and create content that will help your organisation flourish on various social media platforms. With case studies for inspiration, Annie explains the strengths of the main platforms — Facebook, Twitter ... Read more

HdK Associates explore how to optimise user engagement across the key social media platforms. Including how to pivot your social media during Coronavirus. With: Hans de Kretser, Director; Phoebe Cleghorn, Digital Marketing Manager; Freya Ruane, Marketing Coordinator and Hannah Gagen, Advocacy Manager, SOLT and UK Theatre

Devon Smith, co-founder of Measure Creative and Mentor at AMA Digital Lab asks: should we use a Facebook Pixel?

The second blog by Francesca Ramsay, Assistant Manager at Byard Art as part of her Fellowship at AMA Digital Lab.

This training video explores how to integrate social media into your current marketing activity and how to build online communities. It will provide practical tips on using Twitter and Facebook and guidance on how to evaluate your success.

This guide, commissioned by The Audience Agency from Culture24 as part of Audience Finder, takes you through each aspect of the Facebook Page Insights interface and explains what the graphs and tables mean and how they can be useful to you.

First published on Idek a cultural marketing blog based in Sweden, this article provides a few tips on ensuring your organisation plans its social media presence during the summer holiday season to ensure you don’t lose your audience’s attention, and that small issues or emergencies can be dealt with swiftly and effectively.

Arts Audiences works within Ireland to build knowledge and expertise within the arts about audiences through a range of initiatives and training courses. Arts Audiences is funded by The Arts Council/ An Chomairle Ealaoin and is a partnership initiative of The Arts Council and Temple Bar Cultural Trust. The Google Mentoring scheme is a partnership ... Read more

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, the mobile internet and online giving markets are all examined in this short guide on how to use social media for fundraising purposes. Facts, figures and features are shown in table format, together with points on why an arts organisation should get involved. Some digital fundraising examples are also provided.

Time To Read – a partnership of people working in 22 library authorities in North West England – shares its experience of commissioning a video to promote reading and libraries.

In March 2010 the Victoria and Albert Museum launched its online platform the V&A Channel to house an exciting and ever-changing output of high-quality films relating to the Museum and its activities.  The aim was to create a distinctive and compelling content provider, and bring the innovative approach and philosophy of the Museum’s V&A magazine ... Read more

The Manchester Literature Festival has taken place every October since 2006 and is the city’s largest literary event. In this case study, Kate Feld describes the Festival’s 2013 online digital marketing campaign, which included e-newsletters, Facebook, Twitter and blogging. The success of this campaign, particularly its social media activity, contributed to the Festival attracting a larger and ... Read more

Since 2008 Manchester Library and Information Service has used social media including blogging, sharing photos/videos, tweets and Facebook to promote resources and activities and reach new audiences. Written by Sue Lawson from Manchester Library, with contributions from Linsey Parkinson (Heald), writer and marketing consultant, this case study describes how social media has helped Manchester Libraries to ... Read more

JustSoFestival is an annual weekend-long camping festival for children and their families. Since the first festival in 2009, it has almost doubled in size, from a capacity of 2,600 in the first year, to a sell-out of 5,000 in 2013.  With no money for advertising, the festival has grown through online and offline word-of-mouth. In this ... Read more

This case study from Scottish Book Trust describes how they used social media to develop a broad range of audiences for Scotland’s first week-long national celebration of books and reading.  Working with a range of online and offline partners, Scottish Book Trust developed a Book Week Scotland brand voice for social media activity (Facebook saw ... Read more

In this article, Owen Buttolph, Business Analyst at MediaCom Edinburgh, discusses the importance of website analytics and provides a brief overview of two approaches to analysing digital data.