A straightforward guide from Creative Scene that shares insights about the value of using data to better understand and engage audiences.

An abstract from the Spektrix Insights Report 2019 that focuses on maximising individual donations.

The Spektrix Insights Report is a look into the consumer transaction data of up to 343 arts organisations which use the Spektrix Ticketing, Marketing, and Fundraising CRM system. The report was published in May 2019 and is available in full, here: http://www.spektrix.com/insights2019

Pru Shackley, Marketing and Audience Development Manager at The Lightbox Gallery and Museum, Woking describes how Culture Segments TagTool insights are being used to fuel strategy across her organisation.

This short guide by Devon Smith presumes you already have a working knowledge of Google Analytics and focuses on top tips for harnessing the true power of analytics and using them in meaningful ways to better measure your organisation’s digital goals.

This is an in-depth US-based case study documenting the successes of COCABiz: a programme of the Center for Creative Arts that supports the business community in St. Louis, Missouri with integration of artistic practices. COCABiz was a project incubated in EmcArts.org’s Innovation Labs for the Performing Arts programme in 2009, and has since grown into ... Read more

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.

Andrew McIntyre explores marketing in terms of what a visitor might want to experience and what an arts organisation or curator might want to offer. He proposes the use of a benefits matching model to focus marketing activities on the benefits sought by the visitor and the benefits offered by the arts organisation in order ... Read more

Gerri Morris audience demands that arts marketers need a better understanding of the needs, attitudes and motivations of existing and potential audiences and visitors. She introduces a diagnostic tool, ‘7 Pillars of Audience Focus’, that can also be used as a planning tool.

We all want to attract new audiences and encourage our current audiences to attend more frequently. This guide explains how you can move your customers up the ladder of engagement by using two techniques; test-drive and teleprompt. Described as affordable, profitable, practical and successful approaches, you’ll find an outline of how to undertake each one along ... Read more

The toolkit and guidelines for audiences at outdoor events and festival aim to provide a framework to measuring and evidencing the impact of an outdoor event. The guidelines provide practical advice for audience research at un-ticketed cultural festivals and other events in the following sections: research principles, data collection methods, evidencing success, estimating audience size, questionnaires and surveys, working ... Read more

The Discover Dance programme was run by Arts About Manchester between 2005 and 2009. This evaluation provides Acorn profiles of dance attenders and a useful insight into some of the key barriers to engagement for first time attenders with the dance sector, as well as an evaluation of the development work that was undertaken.

‘Let’s Get Real’ details the online analytics methodology, research and key findings of a major study into how arts and cultural organisations can evaluate online success. It suggests new ways to plan, invest and collaborate on the development of digital cultural activities. The guide explains how to define what you are trying to do online, ... Read more

An insight into how The Natural History Museum aims to create life-long relationships with its visitors which rely on them being connected with all aspects of the Museum’s work.  For an organisation that has 40 different logos and a complex structure, this is no easy task, and this case study shows you how it can ... Read more

This guide shows how businesses use Twitter to market themselves and their work in Manchester, one of the most active Twitter communities in the country.  With clear illustrations of what the data on usage actually means, this analysis can help you to make sure you’re staying one step ahead of your competitors when using Twitter.

This comprehensive report looks at the burgeoning Innovation Technologies (IvT) sector and how such systems as eScience, modelling, stimulation and visualisation technologies along with virtual and rapid prototyping are helping shape the face of innovation across all business models along with the impact of this on public institutions in relation to leadership and business strategies ... Read more

Morris Hargreaves McIntyre detail seven pillars for arts organisations to potentially transform their audience development focus: vision-led, brand-driven, outcome-orientated, inter-disciplinary, insight-guided, interactively-engaged, and personalised.

This document brings together a vast body of research and experience to demonstrate how research can develop museums’ and galleries’ ambitions, vision, models and methodologies to enable a much more meaningful measure of impact and value.

An article, The Unusual Suspects, contextualises arts audience segmentation but also seeks to provide a new model for the 21st century based on key understandings about how audiences want to engage with the arts and how they want to be communicated with. The Culture Segments segmentation model presents eight segments that offer a common language ... Read more

The audience profiling study provided primary data through interview-led exit surveys to gain a deeper understanding of visitors, who they are, their motivations and attitudes. The profiling examined reasons for visiting, marketing reach, exhibition awareness and engagement, and visitor satisfaction. The insights informed recommendations for how Baltic could deepen engagement and improve the offer, and ... Read more