Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
I would like to believe everyone is taking the full week before Christmas off and you’re home now in a pair of fuzzy slippers indulging in eggnog or sipping a nice glass of wine. But who am I kidding, you’re probably up to your eyeballs in Messiah, Nutcracker, and the obligatory Home for the Holidays pops. Fortunately, I have a fun rabbit hole you can escape into for a bit: the …
Business is so busy right now that I missed my own blog anniversary. Nonetheless, November 3, 2018 marked Adaptistration’s 15th anniversary. Each year brings something new and wonderful and #15 was no exception. Let’s take a look at what Analytics tell us about this year’s highlights. Audience New readers increased by 9.2 percent. Overall traffic increased by 10.5 percent. Core readership increased 1.56 percent. The average readers spent 25 percent more …
If you spend much time in the field, you’ll notice the large number of professionals that have spouses who work inside the business. It’s increasingly common to find musicians married to other musicians, but you’ll also find plenty of managers married to other managers and yes, there are even musicians married to managers. It’s always a double-edged sword when it comes to marrying someone who works in the same field. On …
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Today marks Adaptistration’s 14th anniversary and to help mark the occasion, let’s look at the year’s highlights. Audience New readers increased by 1.8 percent. Overall traffic was down, but that’s not a surprise given the previous year’s record setting traffic from the 2016 Orchestra Compensation Reports: Music Directors After filtering out that article’s traffic, the overall difference was a fraction of a percent. Readers by age groups: 25-34: 22.50 percent of …
Astute visitors may have already noticed the new “Related Posts” function at the bottom of each post. This is one of the newest features related to the Season of Updates and unlike the previous version, this one is learning what to display based on how you surf through content. No worries, there isn’t any sort of IP based user tracking going on. Instead, the function is analyzing when users visit more …
Five classical music nerds geek out on the music of star trek.
Featuring arts marketer Ceci Dadisman, conductor and pianist Bill Eddins, Met Opera Orchestra Principal Timpanist Jason Haaheim, composer Rob Deemer, and yours truly, each episode will focus on a specific film, series, composer, or topic.
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