You may know the buying and donating patterns of your own audience. But do you know how they engage with the other arts organizations in your community? And does that mean you’re in competition with them or have opportunities to collaborate?
Seventeen arts and cultural institutions in the Philadelphia area set out to find the answers to those very questions. The study they commissioned investigated the buying and donating behavior of nearly 1 million arts audience and visitor households over seven years, with interesting findings about community engagement and audience loyalty. Researchers profiled how loyal patrons were to each individual organization and tracked patterns of loyalty across the community.
Join the research team from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and TRG Arts in this hour-long, free webinar. You’ll learn:
- The most relevant findings from this ground-breaking study
- How patrons at different levels of loyalty invested in the Philadelphia arts community at large
Why data shows that collaboration and cooperation between organizations strengthens community-wide arts audiences
- How your own audience may be behaving based on the behavior patterns found in this study
- What your organization can do to create and keep loyal supporters
2. Jill Robinson, President & CEO
Adam Scurto, Consulting Analyst
John McInerney, VP of Marketing/Comm
Britney Hines-Boggs, Program Manager
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3. #artsloyalty
Do you know what
YOUR patrons do?
Single Ticket Purchase
Donation
First-Time Buyer
Lapsed Subscriber
Attends Opera Annually
Subscription
Lapsed Donor
Museum Admission in 2012
Subscriber-Donor
Multi-ticket buyer
Holiday Buyer
Classical Music Loyalist
New Subscriber
Enjoys Musical Theatre
8. Performing Arts
• Annenberg Center
• Arden Theatre Company
• FringeArts
• Kimmel Center
• Opera Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania Ballet
• People’s Light and Theatre
• Philadelphia Orchestra
• The Wilma Theater
17 Organizations
Museums
• Brandywine River Museum
• Franklin Institute
• Independence Seaport
Museum
• Longwood Gardens
• Penn Museum
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Philadelphia Zoo
• Please Touch Museum
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22. Advocates: 3,418 Households
99% of Advocates are donors,
subscribers, members and
ticket buyers across the
community
Advocates
23. Advocates: 3,418 Households
Annually, Advocates:
• Give an average of $16,000 to community
• Spend $300 on membership
• Invest more than $1,000 in subscriptions
Advocates
25. 99% of Advocates engage
with more than one organization.
92% engage with three or more
Advocates: 3,418 Households
Advocates
26. Buyers: 20,984 Households
71% of Buyers are donors,
74% are subscribers, 72% are
members and 84% purchased
tickets
Buyers
27. Buyers: 20,984 Households
Annually, Buyers:
• Make $1,600 in gifts to the community
• Invest $150 in memberships, subscriptions
and single tickets
Buyers
28. Some Buyers are lapsed or
infrequently engaged, but
generally they are recent,
consistent patrons
Buyers: 20,984 Households
Buyers
37. Omnivores
3%
8%
89%
Patrons that engaged with 1-2 Organizations
% of Advocate Appearances % of Buyer Appearances % of Tryer Appearances
4%
15%
81%
Patrons that engaged with 3 - 6 Organizations
% of Advocate Appearances % of Buyer Appearances % of Tryer Appearances
7%
22%
71%
Patrons that engaged with 7-10 organizations
% of Advocate Appearances % of Buyer Appearances % of Tryer Appearances
13%
27%
60%
Patrons that engaged with 11 - 14 Organizations
% of Advocate Appearances % of Buyer Appearances % of Tryer Appearances
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39. Research Into Action
Key Findings
• When a patron leaves your organization, they
likely haven’t stopped attending the arts in
your community.
• The more organizations a patron visits, the
deeper their loyalty to each organization
becomes.
• This means that list trading benefits both
individual organizations and the arts and cultural
community at large.
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47. Photo by Tobias Schlitt (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
An Upgrade
Ask the patron to take the right next step
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48. What’s an upgrade?
Action Next Step
Buy a ticket
Buy a small
subscription or
membership
Renewing
subscriber or
member
Buy another ticket
Buy a full series
subscription or
larger membership
Add on
donation or events
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