People try a new arts activity when trusted people recommend it. And that’s where ambassadors can help you. This training video will talk you through three inspiring case studies of successful ambassador schemes to explain how they can help you promote your offer, develop your audiences and produce cultural events.

For four weeks in April-May 2013, a new and fairly unknown company – Little Bulb – performed their show Orpheus at the Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall. Orpheus is an unusual concept bringing together the Greek myth about Orpheus and the story of the legendary Jazz musician Django Reinhardt. In this case study, Katie Elston from the ... 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

Indie Games: The Movie (2012) is a documentary film about the video games industry, made by Canadian filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. This case study describes how the filmmakers created a marketing buzz around the film despite having no budget for marketing or advertising; the awareness of the film was entirely created via word of ... Read more

This report details the results from a project to increase engagement with the arts and culture among older people in Manchester. The scheme targeted ‘gatekeepers’ and turned them into ambassadors for culture at 15 venues around the city, including arts centres, theatres, museums and galleries. The resource introduces the Valuing Older People: Culture Champions scheme, and ... Read more

An evaluation and case study of a large-scale, mutlidimensional arts tour and education project. Torbay Council brought an award-winning, interventionist work of public art, RedBall UK, to the streets, enriching cultural tourists’ experiences and allowing visitors to see familiar places in a new light.

An in-depth study of voluntary and amateur arts groups and informal adult learning in the arts in England. Commissioned by DCMS and Arts Council England to improve the knowledge base on the voluntary and amateur arts sector in England, it is the first of its kind on a national scale and represents the first step ... Read more

What makes a good arts ambassador?  How useful can they be as a marketing tool for your organisation? How do you get started on recruiting ambassadors that will bring real benefits?  With top tips and words of caution, this step by step approach to promotion and development through ambassadors will offer the tools you need ... Read more

What makes people talk about culture? How can we get people talking about the arts, both online and offline? This discussion of word-of-mouth uses a case study of a Grayson Perry exhibition at the British Museum to explore strategies around buzz marketing, viral marketing, and identifying key influencers and opinion leaders – plus what happens ... Read more

Transcript of a presentation on copywriting and creating ideas for the social web.

Transcript of a keynote speech on creating a buzz and spreading ideas by word of mouth, pull marketing, and viral marketing.

Discussion of Mark Earls’s keynote on his book Herd: how to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature. 

Report on a session about enhancing word-of-mouth through storytelling, viral marketing and generating buzz, and how to transform this into an ongoing relationship.