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
This guide has been developed by the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, and partner professional bodies ISBA, Marketing Agencies Association (MAA), PRCA. The guide uses insight from research undertaken into how clients and agencies evaluate their marketing communications. Although the guide has been written from the perspective of high spend advertisers, the latter half of … Read more
This concise article explores the topic of co-creation – working together with an audience to create new work – and provides some helpful do’s and don’ts. How can we make co-creation work well, and is it an opportunity to engage less frequent arts attenders?
Would your organisation like to see an increase of almost 75% visitors and an influx of younger audiences? This Marketing Society Scotland (2013) paper outlines how Matthews Marketing helped the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (RBBM) achieve just that, one year on from its opening in 2011.
This Marketing Society Scotland (2013) paper outlines an award winning campaign from the National library of Scotland (NLS) and Frame. NLS is the world’s leading centre for the study of Scotland and the Scots. In the summer of 2012, a campaign that explored the story of cinema-going in Scotland over the past 120 years attracted … Read more
In October 2012, Random International’s largest and most ambitious installation – Rain Room – opened in the Barbican’s Curve gallery. A 100 square metre field of falling water, Rain Room came alive through audience interaction with the thousands of falling droplets responding to audience presence and movement. This case study describes the planning, processes and outcomes … Read more
This non-arts case study demonstrates how the Scottish Government and its partner agencies used a strategy of ‘positive social norming’ to get over half a million people talking about organ donation. This paper outlines the rationale behind the new strategic approach (to get people talking) and the activity that underpinned the campaign. In particular, this … Read more
With unprecedented access to objects from Naples Museum and the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the British Museum mounted a major exhibition – Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum – in March 2013. Focusing on the daily lives of ordinary people in these areas, the exhibition aimed to highlight the strong resonances between life in the … Read more
This non-arts case study demonstrates how an innovative behaviour change campaign from the Scottish Government and The Leith Agency led to a 50% increase in women acting early on the symptoms of breast cancer by going to the doctor. In an advertising first, the campaign boldly used images of real women’s breasts with visible signs … Read more
After five years in the making, the National Portrait Gallery’s major exhibition of Lucian Freud Portraits took place in 2012. This major exhibition, which spanned Freud’s seventy year career, was the first to focus on his portraiture. Produced in close collaboration with the late artist, the exhibition concentrated on particular periods and groups of sitters, … Read more