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Research and Consultancy

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Audiences Wales provides a full range of market research and marketing consultancy services that include strategic marketing planning support, quantitative and qualitative research, consultation studies, marketing audits, and feasibility studies.  Whether you require basic audience research to profile your attenders or high level strategic analysis we can devise a programme of research that best suits your requirements. We use a full range of research techniques including face-to-face interviewing, telephone interviewing, self-completion and postal questionnaires.  We also offer on-line research. 

A case study can be found at the bottom of this page.

Examples of previous work include:
Profiling
  • Profile of theatre attenders using a postal survey
  • Profile of attenders for a touring scheme using a self-completion questionnaire
  • Population profiles of arts attenders and their patterns of behaviour on a major Wales-wide survey
  • Tracking study based on box office analysis, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of arts attenders in a capital city
  • Museum visitor profiling survey and focus groups on brand image
Branding
  • Brand perceptions of a major performing arts company using a postal survey and focus groups
  • Brand image study for a major city-centre venue based on focus groups
  • Pre-launch visitor awareness research for the opening of a major new museum
Consultation
  • Consultation with local residents, user groups, stakeholder organisations and elected members to determine the future use of a community arts venue
  •  Consultation with user groups, stakeholder organisations and elected members to identify the need for a newly refurbished arts venue
Marketing Audits
  • Audit of marketing activity for a museum resulting in a marketing plan
  • Marketing audit for a major festival
Full Audits and Evaluations
  • An audit of the provision of particular art forms including consultation with local authorities, umbrella bodies and user organisations, schools, further education establishments and universities/colleges.  
  • An evaluation of a key publicly funded scheme
  • An audit of theatre for young people provision including consultation with local authorities, presenting arts venues, arts companies, schools, amateur companies, privately run organisations, artists, peripatetic teachers, individual providers and Theatre In Education companies 
  • An evaluation of Artists in Schools agencies across Wales
  • An audit of arts activity in a capital for a Capital of Culture 2008 bid
  • A communications audit and evaluation for a local authority department
  • An audit of amateur, professional and community arts activity for two local authorities
Marketing Planning
  • A series of marketing plans produced for community arts organisations as part of their funding applications
Contact Rebecca Tamplin rebecca@audienceswales.co.uk or on 029 2037 3736.
 
Ticketing
  • Advice provided to arts venues on ticketing systems
Mapping
  • Catchment area maps using customer postcodes captured in box office systems or survey forms
Contact Lynfa Protheroe Lynfa@audienceswales.co.uk or on 029 2037 3736


 

Ymchwil ac Ymgynghori

Mae Cynulleidfaoedd Cymru yn cynnig amryw o wasanaethau ymchwil ac ymgynghorol, sy’n cynnwys cymorth cynllunio marchnata, ymchwil marchnata, astudiaethau ymgynghori, archwiladau marchnata ac astudiaethau posibilrwydd (feasibility studies). Os oes eisiau ymchwil syml neu cymleth arnoch, fe allwn ni greu cynllun a fydd yn iawn i chi. Rydym yn defnyddio amryw o dechnegau ymchwil, yn cynnwys cyfweld wyneb yn wyneb, cyfweld dros y ffon, holiaduron, new ymchwil ar ay we.


Engreifftiau o’m gwaith.

Gwaith Proffeil
• Proffeil o fynychwyr theatr drwy’r post
• Proffeil o fynychwyr grwp teithio yn defnyddio holiadur
• Proffeil o fynychwyr y celfyddydau ledled Cymru
• Astudiaeth wedi selio ar wybodaeth swyddfa docynnau, a proffeil o fynychwyr y celfyddydau mewn prifddinas
• Proffeil o ymwelwyr amgueddfeydd.

Brandio
• Canfydiad brand o gwni theatr mawr, yn defnyddio holiadur drwy’r post.
• Astudiaeth delwedd brand i safle mawr canol dinas wedi ei selio ar drafodaeth grwp
• Ymchwil ymwybyddiaeth ymwelwyr ar gyfer amgueddfa newydd cyn iddo agor

Gwaith Ymgynghori
• Ymgynghori gyda trigolion lleol, aelodau wedi ei ethol a mudiadau lleol ynglyn a dyfodol canolfan celfyddydau lleol.
• Ymgynghori gyda trigolion lleol, aelodau wedi ei ethol a mudiadau lleol ynglyn canolfan celfyddydau newydd

Archwiliadau Marchnata
• Archwiliad marchnata i amgueddfa, yn arwain i gynllun marchnata.
• Archwiliad marchnata i wyl gerddorol fawr yn Ne Cymru

Archwiliadau Llawn a Gwerthuso
• Archwiliad ar ddarpariaeth celfyddydau penodol yn cynnwys ymgynghori gyda’r awdurdod lleol, ysgolion, mudiadau lleol a cholegau addysg pellach.
• Gwerthuso cynlun pwysig a ariannwyd yn gyhoeddus.
• Archwiliad ar ddarpariaeth theatr i bobl ifanc yn cynnwys ymgynghori gyda theatrau lleol, canolfannau celfyddydol, yr awdurdod lleol, ysgolion, colegau, actorion, athrawon peripatetic a chwmniau Theatr mewn Addysg.
• Gwerthuso asiantaethau artistiaid mewn ysgolio dros Gymru gyfan.
• Ymchwiliad a gwerthuso cyfarthrebu i adran awdurdod lleol
• Ymchwiliad o’r celfyddydau yn y gymuned i ddau awdurdod lleol.

Cynllunio Marchnata
• Cyfres o gynlluniau marchnata ar gyfer sefydliadau celfyddydol cymunedol fel rhan o’i cais am arian.

Tocynnau
• Cyngor ar systemau tocynnau i theatrau

Mapio
• Mapiau o ardaloedd yn dangos mynychwyr allan o’m ymchwil ni
 
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What´s New

Audiences Wales 2012-13 - An overview

Audiences Wales continues to support the arts and cultural sectors in Wales with a range of services and support. Audiences Wales is the audience development agency for Wales and aims to enable arts organisations to understand their audiences, increase their impact, and reach new visitors.

AMA Conference 2013

This year’s AMA conference will be held at Sheffield City Hall from July 16th - 18th.

Youth Arts Network

An opportunity to explore the potential for a Youth Arts Network that connects youth arts providers and practitioners across Wales.

TMA Residential Courses

The Theatrical Management Association’s highly regarded Essentials of Marketing ‘Druidstone’ and Effective Management courses will take place this October and applications are now open with a 10% saving on 2012 prices offered on all applications submitted by 26 July.

Visual Arts Audience Benchmarking

Audiences Wales has published a Wales-wide Benchmark Report of visitors to galleries in Wales during 2012.

The Knowledge Guide

The Knowledge is Audiences Wales’ Box Office analysis programme for theatres, arts centres and touring companies. With 38 theatres currently subscribing to the programme, The Knowledge is the most significant analysis of actual theatre attendance in Wales.

Marketing Welsh Language Events

We’ve compiled a useful factsheet on marketing Welsh language events with the assistance of attendees from our Welsh Language Marketing Forums.

Identifying the Potential published

Identifying the Potential is a major research project into drama audiences in Wales.

Website Update - New Learning Resources and Links

We’ve made some changes to our website – www.audienceswales.co.uk – to provide even greater support for our users.

Children and The Arts

DCMS have released a report outlining how children engage with cultural sectors.

Marketing for Audio Described/Subtitled Cinema

In Wales, there are over 480,000 individuals with hearing loss or hearing related difficulties and 100,000 with serious sight loss. (Source: RNID Cymru and RNIB Cymru).

Audiences Wales - part of the bigger picture

Audiences Wales is proud to be a member of Network.