This Week's Insights: When the Oscars lose their audience... How audience drives Hollywood's behavior... The NEA is really an audience diversifier... Reviews that don't offer point of view lose their audience... "Trending" doesn't measure audience (don't be fooled). Have The Oscars Lost Their Audience? It's been a while now since big box office hits have coincided with the … [Read more...]
This Week’s Lessons In Understanding Audiences: Diversity, Addiction, And Rethinking Ticket-Selling
This Week's Insights: Outcry over orchestra gender imbalances... What happens when you take smartphones away from your audience... Is there will to make theatres accessible for all?... Rethinking how we sell tickets... Fighting (and being aware of) tech addiction. Is It Okay For Orchestras To Have Seasons With Only Male Composers? Several orchestras unveiled next year's … [Read more...]
This Week’s Insights In Audience: The Medium And The Message
This Week's Insights: Why was the iPad a failed publishing revolution?... How your phone's design killed talking on the phone... Public space as a policing tool... How bands are succeeding by playing smaller... VR is a great experience in search of an audience imperative. The Best New Experience In The World Can't Succeed Unless... it finds a way into people's day to day … [Read more...]
This Week’s Insights On Audience Behavior, Skeptical Edition
This Week's Insights: Let's be skeptical of those "audience behavior" studies... why theatre needs an audience to be theatre... Beware the tech backlash as an audience theme... Why romance writers are killing it with audiences... Music Is The Universal Language (Or Not): We see a lot of stories about research on arts matters here at ArtsJournal. The headlines are often … [Read more...]
This Week’s Audience Roundup: Why We Love Harsh Reviews; The Art-Selfie App That Went Viral
This Week's Insights: Our tortured fascination with reviews... Making fun of classical musicians... a debate about museum admission prices... Does a viral art app teach us anything?... The fascinating reasons Hamilton tickets are obtainable in Chicago. They Say Reviews Are Dying. So What Accounts For This? Harsh reviews - the kind that make you sit up and go "wow" are … [Read more...]