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Audience Development

Spoiler Alert: The Latest Spider Man Movie Takes A Swipe At Opera

Mon, Jul 7, 2019
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Over the holiday weekend, I went to the latest Marvel movie, Spider Man: Far From Home. With the exception of a single scene, it’s a typical installment in the tent-pole franchise but that exception is a doozy in that it takes a swipe at some of the worst stereotypes of live classical music concerts. Mild

Get A Glimpse Behind The Grant Panel Curtain

Tue, Jun 6, 2019
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As if he wasn’t already bringing his A-Game on a regular basis, Joe Patti recently published an article at Butts In The Seats that provides a behind the scenes look at one of the more cloistered processes in the business: the grant panel review process. If that weren’t a good enough topic in and of

For Only $31, How Can You Not Try Influencer Marketing?

Fri, May 5, 2019
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There’s a fascinating article in the May 21/2019 edition of SocialMediaToday.com (h/t Thomas Cott) that examines a report from Klear (a marketing software platform) that begins to provide perspective on influencer marketing rates. [This] where this new report from Klear comes in – to help provide more transparency in the influencer marketing process, Klear surveyed more than

More Metrics Thursday: Following-Up On Tuesday’s Audience Anxiety Post

Thu, Feb 2, 2019
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I was pleased to get a good amount of direct feedback in response to Tuesday’s post about audience anxiety over what to wear to concerts. The most requested item was additional metrics, so here’s a bit of additional data I can share. Location One of most common requests was a variation of the theme “were

Using Metrics To Identify Audience Anxiety

Tue, Feb 2, 2019
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There’s nothing quite like having access to unique data and to that end, as the webmaster for all the blogs hosted at Inside The Arts hosted, I can dive into multiple years’ worth of metrics data. Not long ago, I was enjoying some data mining and uncovered a fascinating nugget that identified a key anxiety
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