What Arts Orgs Need Now: #5 You’re misusing your marketing staff time

The biggest excuse I hear about content creation? “We don’t have time.” Here’s why that thinking is outdated — and how arts orgs can start creating meaningful content now.

Opera Philadelphia offered $11 tickets. What happened next?

Why did Opera Philadelphia’s $11 ticket initiative work so well? It tapped into the elusive “latent demand” by welcoming new audiences, and signaling that everyone truly belongs at the opera. These results shouldn’t surprise us, based on what we already know about arts audiences.

Learning from @lydia_cello: Let the audience feel

This week on my site I want to highlight five people or videos on social media that have caught my eye lately. First up is @lydia_cello on TikTok (Lydia Rhea in real life). Lydia recently graduated from Juilliard and has been posting about her life as a student for a while, and now about life … Continue reading Learning from @lydia_cello: Let the audience feel