This Week's Insights: More audience or BETTER audience?... A major Paris theatre plays Robin Hood... How the new EU copyright law will change the way we see the internet... Fox/Disney merger sets up epic battle for Hollywood's audience... Too many streaming choices? The Quality Versus Quantity Debate: Is a bigger audience better than a better audience? It matters, because we … [Read more...]
This Week In Audience: Seeing The Virtual Rome Around You; The Mob Supplants Critics…
This Week's Insights: Rome uses tech to help visitors see its history... When crowd feedback becomes intimidation... Yo Yo Ma connects art to community... Is Mozart still opera as a video game?... Hudson Yards grabs rights from the crowd. Ancient Rome Around You: Of course walking the streets of Rome is already walking through history. But much of the history you see in the … [Read more...]
This Week in Audience: How Real Is Virtual? How Do You Build A “Better” Audience (As Opposed To “More” Audience)
This Week's Insights: Can live theatre be replicated in virtual reality?... Better performances versus better audiences... Recapturing our first experiences in the theatre... Are movies still movies on the small screen? Can Live Performance In The Theatre Translate To Virtual Reality? LIVR is a bet that it can, in the launch of a new virtual reality network that aims to make … [Read more...]
This Week In Audience: Authors Versus Library?
This Week's Insights: Is ticket price a barrier to inclusiveness?... Authors threaten Internet Archive over lending digital books... How Netflix gets the world to pay attention... Does Netflix threaten the definition of what a movie is? Why Should Price Be A Factor In Whether You Attend Arts Events? That's the thinking of Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art, which has … [Read more...]
This Week in Audience: Is Audience Really The Measure Of Success?
This Week's Insights: The costs of fun (arts tickets compared)... Too much audience in Edinburgh?... When the audience thinks it knows more than the artists?... Do museums need to be more like theme parks?... Can the 1940s teach us about audience for culture? Arts Tickets Are Too Expensive? Let's Compare: One of the reasons people don't go to the arts? High ticket prices. … [Read more...]