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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.
The Longtail Blog
Your 2024 Digital Priorities
The changing digital landscape presents challenges, but also an incredible opportunity to strategically reassess priorities heading into a new year and era. Here are CI’s top 5 areas of focus to help you reach audiences, drive revenue, and meet your marketing goals in 2024.
Snowfall-Fresh Inspiration
Social Content Calendar
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.
The Longtail Blog
Ask CI: What's the Strategic Difference Between Paid and Organic Social Content?
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.
More must-reads
Building Trust by Respecting User Privacy
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!
Maximizing Your Website with Data and Analysis
When most of us think of digital marketing, we think of creating social content or optimizing ad campaigns. But one key area often ends up on the sidelines: your website.
How We Helped Berkeley Repertory Theatre Drive Revenue For a Regional Premiere
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The Longtail Blog
View AllCI to Eye Podcast
View AllWhat do we do when “the classics”—those canonical treasures that embody the rich traditions of our genres—start to feel outdated for today’s audiences, or even at odds with our missions?
In today’s episode, we take a close look at celebrated works from the classical Western canon that include harmful portrayals of non-Western cultures, and hear how one artist is taking action to prune and preserve the art he loves.
Holding the artistic reins of an organization is no easy feat—especially when that organization has been around for generations and has a deep-rooted legacy. As a leader, how do you honor the rich history of your institution while effectively steering it into the future?
As New York City Ballet celebrates its 75th anniversary season, Artistic Director Jonathan Stafford reflects on the Company’s continued evolution, how they’ve adapted to this new digital era, and the unique challenges of leading such a storied cultural entity.
The changing digital landscape might present challenges, but it also presents a great opportunity to reassess and refocus as we head into a new era of digital marketing.
At CI, we pinpointed five key areas that will set arts and cultural institutions up for success in 2024. Catch up on the first two priorities in Part One, then delve into the final three priorities in today’s episode. You’ll get insights and tips from CI consultants so you can confidently navigate the changing digital landscape, drive results for your organization, and refocus as we head into a new era of digital marketing.
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Industry Studies
Arts Industry Benchmark Study
For the sixth iteration of the Benchmark Study, we revamped our approach to focus on the most critical metrics and key performance indicators that shed light on the state of digital marketing practices in the arts and cultural field. The study will give you a multi-purpose snapshot of digital marketing practices in the arts and cultural industry with findings from 180 arts organizations.