Ash Mann draws on The Hidden Cost, his survey of 187 digital practitioners, to explore the essential work that keeps cultural organisations running but rarely appears in a job description. He links his findings to Arts Marketing Association’s Together We Act research, looks at how unplanned AI adoption adds to the load, and sets out … Read more
Keeping a theatre or museum website secure, fast and GDPR-compliant is easier said than done, especially with tight budgets and stretched teams. In this piece Lily Houston, Splitpixel rounds up the tools and habits that make WordPress maintenance manageable, from DDoS protection and plugin audits to uptime monitoring and image optimisation. If your site handles … Read more
Edd Baldry, co-founder of Make Sense Of It, explores why cultural organisations struggle to move from AI scepticism to practical action and how a simple recipe approach can change that. Drawing on twenty years working in and around the charity sector, he identifies the real barrier: it’s not understanding the technology, it’s finding a starting … Read more
Whether you’re just starting to explore AI or already deep in the weeds, these podcasts offer some of the sharpest thinking on AI and marketing — from practical strategy to the bigger questions, these pods will inform how you think about AI at work.
Standard event discovery tools – ‘What’s On’ lists with filters – work well for regular visitors. But they fail newcomers, families, and casual browsers who don’t know where to begin. Martin Gammeltoft and Dr. Patricia Stainer explore how venues can design multiple discovery pathways that reduce invisible barriers and help more people find their way … Read more
Sarah Bagg, founder of ReWork Consulting, brings a unique vantage point to sector challenges, working across attractions, arts venues and heritage sites to reshape their digital and operational strategies. Known for her ability to translate between technology providers and cultural organisations, Sarah offers both strategic clarity and practical wisdom. In this thoughtful analysis drawn from … Read more
Owen Matthews, Director at Ten4Design, shows us a quick, practical way to understand our website’s environmental impact using tools we already use every day.
Ticketsolve challenges the commonly held idea that productivity is about doing as much as possible in as little time as possible – and that as result, that it’s at odds with creativity. They say that instead, productivity is about making space for what matters most. Find out how they do it.
Digital marketing often leans on familiar, trusted formats. Templates that have worked before. Content structures that feel safe to stakeholders. Campaign plans that run on repeat. Digital marketing and web development agency HDK go beyond the analytics and charts and help us unlock new, more creative, ways of working.
Indigo CEO Katy Raines reveals why 50% of first-time cultural visitors never return, how to move beyond demographics to understand real audience needs, and why arts marketers must become audience champions to transform their organisations. A CultureTalk interview from CultureSuite.