The highly-praised, wildly-over-budget venue “has taken in up to 17,000 guests a day, with people from all over the world streaming in to attend concerts or just have a look around the distinctive building. In total, more than 62,000 people have thus far taken a tour of the building and 660,000 people have attended the concerts held there.”
Category: AUDIENCE
An Online Reader Community Of 60 Million Is Revealing Fascinating Insights On Readers
“With some 60 million monthly users—90% of whom are Millennials and Gen Z—spending more than 15 billion minutes per month reading content on Wattpad, the Canadian-based storytelling platform is a goldmine of information about what’s most popular with young readers around the world. What’s unique about Wattpad is that fanfic is treated like any other genre, living alongside other forms of fiction. This makes it more fluid for readers of an original fiction to discover a new fanfic, or inspire a fanfiction writer to start a new story and bring their audience along with them.”
Here’s How One City Intends To Integrate The Arts Into Everything It Does
By 2027, the city aims to make “culturally-inspired lifelong learning” available for every person in Nottingham, and establish cultural programmes, research and partnerships that enhance health and wellbeing.
Smucker’s Gives $1.1 Million To Akron Art Museum
“The J.M. Smucker Co.” – yes, the folks who make jam and peanut butter – “is giving $1.1 million to the Akron Art Museum to support the museum’s endowment and Free Thursdays program.”
Podcast Behavior: Here’s When People Listen To Their Podcasts
The music streaming giant looked at what a typical day of music and podcast listening looks like for their listeners–and discovered that podcast listening peaked during the middle of the day. Interestingly, when they looked at weekday numbers versus the weekend, people listened to fewer podcasts on the weekend. In fact, the drop off is pretty significant, 45% to be exact.
How The Seattle Symphony Pulled In The Educated Transplants Flocking To The City
Using extensive market research and three new concert formats, the SSO identified, and pursued, NUCCs (new urban cultural consumers). Among the surprising things the orchestra found is that the new formats don’t serve as “on-ramps” to the main Masterworks series; they are separate products and brand extensions. Also, the audience for the one-hour 7 p.m. concerts is the one with the most conservative tastes.
The Barnes Has Been In Center City Philadelphia For Five Years – How Has It Worked Out? Very, Very Well
“In its new [Benjamin Franklin] Parkway location, the Barnes has met or exceeded virtually every revenue, fund-raising, and attendance projection made in 2010 before the move. More than 1.4 million visitors have made their way to the new Barnes, according to foundation officials. … ‘Membership,’ said Thomas Collins, executive director and president, ‘is off the charts.’ More than 17,000 memberships have been sold since the opening in 2012.”
Post-Charlottesville, How Is America Changing Its Approach To ‘Gone With The Wind’?
Aisha Harris: “How are cinemas, TV networks, and classrooms rethinking how they present this historical epic and all-time box office king? And could it go the way of Hollywood’s original historical epic and first megablockbuster, 1915’s The Birth of a Nation, leaving it shown very rarely and almost exclusively in academic settings? To find out, I talked to theater managers, academics, television programmers, and fans. The answers I received were mixed, not least because Gone With the Wind is still big business.”
Pierre Audi Of The Park Avenue Armory On Presenting New Work In The U.S. Versus Europe
The complaints we hear over and over again are that European audiences are more open to the new and European institutions are better funded. Audi, who’s spent nearly three decades running the Dutch National Opera and came to the Armory in 2015, says that audiences over here, especially in New York, are hungry for good work from all over the world. The problem is getting that work to the States.
Anything To Be Learned From This Wildly Popular Event?
“Last year there were more than 140,000 applications for tickets to be in the 200-strong studio audience of what is often Ireland’s most watched television event of the year. Audience members get to see young Irish performers, enjoy the latest toys up close, and are guaranteed to leave with a large stash of goodies.”