Arts marketing, publicity and audience development

Audiences Wales provides a free advice and support service to anyone working in arts marketing and audience development including individual artists, galleries, festivals and theatres whether they are professional, amateur or community based.

The type of enquiries we receive covers a wide range, including:

How do I publicise my event?
How do I write a marketing plan?
How do I contact the press?
How do I reach new audiences?
How do I find out about government statistics?
How do I research my audience?

Whatever your question may be, give us a call and if we don’t know the answer we will find out or point you in the right direction!

Contact a member of Audiences Wales staff and let us help you:

Nick Beasley, Chief Executive (strategic and tactical marketing, planning, press)

Rebecca Tamplin, Research Manager (research, tactical marketing)

Lynfa Protheroe, Data Analyst (data analysis and Box Office operations)

Michael Took, Marketing Executive (website and email communications)

Audiences Wales
Tel: 029 20373736
Email: postbox@audienceswales.co.uk

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.