National Classical Music Audiences

Jun 11, 2019

An analysis of Audience Finder box office data for classical music events 2014-2016

Audience Finder is the Arts Council England commissioned audience data and development programme, enabling cultural organisations to grow audiences and revenues by sharing, comparing and applying audience insight. The aggregated dataset provides a unique and hitherto unavailable level of audience analysis and benchmarking across the nation, regions, organisations, artforms and performances.

An Audience Finder classical music cluster was set up in 2013-14 which agreed specific areas of focus. Those it has been possible to address in this report are:

 What are audiences like? Using Audience Spectrum segmentation. o How do tastes differ?

 What are the booking behaviours of classical music audiences?

  •  How frequently do people book?
  •  How much do people pay for their tickets?
  •  How late do audiences book?
  •  What are the trends in party size?

 Are audiences for classical music ageing?

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