Featured Resources
We create resources to help support and drive the arts forward—and to help you become a more informed, effective arts marketer! Dive into the latest below.
Authentic digital connection is more important than ever. This resource will help you create content that’s thumb-stopping, relevant, and thoughtful to connect with audiences.
No matter whether you’re a social media manager or a marketing director (or both—we know arts marketers wear a lot of hats!), content is essential to your marketing strategy. We’ve got the deets and worthwhile inspiration to set the record straight on how, when, and why you might create different content for your paid and organic content strategies.
Discover what truly drives your audience to engage and convert with UTM codes. CI’s free UTM Generator sets you up to see exactly where your traffic is coming from so you can gain clarity on each campaign and can make every dollar count—all in just a few clicks!
Data privacy, as a concept, tends to make us want to put our heads in the sand. It encompasses so much across our organizations—marketing, legal, IT, and development—that it can often feel like a game of chicken. Who is going to cave, bring it up first, and become the de facto leader? Everyone’s time and money are precious and have more immediate things to devote those resources to. We get it!
The end of the year is a busy time for arts administrators, packed with holiday campaigns and fundraising deadlines. With so much happening, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. So today we’re taking a moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect with our “why.”
In this episode, we revisit a popular Boot Camp 2024 conversation with CI President Priya Iyer Doshi and Terri Freeman, President of The Lewis Museum, about purpose-driven leadership and the resilience of our industry. Then, we ask arts administrators to reflect on their year and what’s fueling their passion in 2025. It will leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and ready to tackle what’s ahead.
In today’s post-pandemic world, keeping our audiences engaged and organizations financially healthy can feel like an uphill battle. Changing audience behaviors have disrupted traditional marketing strategies, and high churn rates among first-time visitors, subscribers, and donors are slowing revenue growth. But what if there’s a way forward that breaks from the traditional playbook?
In this episode, CI President Priya Iyer Doshi sits down with industry leader Aubrey Bergauer to discuss her new book, Run It Like A Business. Aubrey draws inspiration from outside the arts to rethink how organizations can boost relevance, drive revenue, and better serve our communities. Discover how adapting for-profit strategies for non-profit goals can help move your organization forward.
In this episode, we’ll share never-before-aired insights on how to hold your organization accountable to its mission and goals around representation, access, and equity, from a conversation recorded earlier this year between CI’s VP, Managing Director Christopher Williams and Canton Symphony Orchestra’s Rachel Hagemeier.
This is the debut release of 2024 Cultural Compass: Digital Marketing Benchmarks to Guide Arts and Cultural Institutions, with findings drawn from the 2023 digital advertising data from 150+ arts organizations across the United States and Canada. We focused on the metrics we are asked about the most, and sought to provide insights along the way on why they each matter.
