Articles & News

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When we’re not busy with the day-to-day business of working with our clients, or attending – often speaking at – events and conferences, we like to write the odd article about fundraising, marketing, data and other useful (hopefully) things.

22 September 2020

Getting the lights back on: is the re-start of Culture about to stop before it starts?

Whether organisations are opening now, planning to re-open, or having to stay closed, it's important to keep relationships with audiences going.

21 September 2020

New findings: audience engagment with digital culture

Read analysis of Act 2 by our friends Baker Richards and the Audience Agency into digital culture and audience willingness to pay for it.

3 July 2020

Slump in disabled audiences’ confidence presents major problem for the arts sector

Andrew Miller considers the responses given by disabled audience members to the Act 2 national audience survey.

3 July 2020

After the Interval Act 2: What are audiences telling us?

Audiences are telling us now is not the time to be dark. It’s the time to invent, to create and to survive. We should listen to them.

26 June 2020

What can we learn from the Italian ‘After the Interval’ survey?

As lockdown measures ease, Italian cultural audiences are beginning to book tickets again - but many are still reluctant to return to live events.

8 June 2020

Full 6-week report for After the Interval: 137,000 responses

The second wave of results shows an increasing desire from cultural audiences to avoid large gatherings, move outdoors and maintain social distancing.

15 May 2020

After the Interval: Wave 1 report now available

UK Audiences pledge their support for the Arts but are cautious to return to live events anytime soon.

28 April 2020

After the Interval: When will audiences return to live events and venues after lockdown?

We launched our national survey only 12 days ago and have already received over 40,000 responses.....