This Week: Pokemon Go suggests a different relationship between real and virtual, an art prize in which critics don't matter, museums challenge visitors to spot fakes, a French city that has reinvented itself around art, and a claim that modern audiences are confused and uncertain. A Milestone In How We'll See The World? Augmented reality has been around for a while, and … [Read more...]
This Week In Audience: What Audiences Want (And How They Want It) Edition
This week: How do you keep the immersive experience "art"?... Screens are killing dance (unless they're not)... A Music store that's figured out community... The Louisville Symphony tries a new community model... Now audio is beating video - who knew? Inside The Immersive Experience: Data suggest that more and more, people are looking for experiences over "merely" … [Read more...]
This Week in Audience: Boston Ballet’s Dive Into Data
This week: Boston Ballet has done some serious data diving to produce a successful season at the box office... NPR is finding gold in podcasts... When news becomes unmoored from its sources, do we care?... A "young" (didn't know it was a noun, eh?) declares what will get "youngs" to the arts... Will the machines eventually determine our tastes in art? Better Dance Through … [Read more...]
This Week in Audience: The Latest Fronts On Understanding Who’s Paying Attention
Is social media communication, marketing, art, or all three?... The perils of market research when it drives your art... The latest front on artists' war on cell phone use... How NPR discovered a ton of information about its listeners... How the internet is changing our perceptions of the world. Marketing, Communicating, Art... And/Or Social Media? Social media powers the … [Read more...]
This Week In Audience: Is Text Slipping Away As We Go More Video?
Looking for diverse audiences? Here's where they are... But orchestras are still struggling to be relevant... Turns out attention might be a muscle we have to use or we lose it... FaceBook wonders if it will be all-video in five years... And libraries get into loaning e-books. We (Say We) Want Diverse Audiences... So here's where the audiences already are diverse says a … [Read more...]