Audience readiness to attend events varies around Australia.
Download the Phase 1 (May 2020) Snapshot reports for key States/Territories.
Download a Fact Sheet that dives deeper into museums and galleries.
Access a copy of the questions contained in the Australian Audience Outlook Monitor Survey for Phase 1 & 2. Phase 3 & 4 questions coming soon.
Analysis of 22,791 past attendees of performing arts events is now available.
Download a Fact Sheet that dives deeper into the challenges for performing arts.
Results from Phase 1 (May 2020) of the Audience Outlook Monitor.
Read about the initial findings and download a Snapshot Report.
The Audience Outlook Monitor is underway in Australia. It’s one of the largest collaborative data gathering exercises ever undertaken. Here’s how it works exactly - and how you can access the results.
As more artists and cultural organisations look to grow their audiences online, we’ve assembled a Fact Sheet with statistics, insights and resources for digital strategy, marketing and distribution.
Six digital professionals share their insights about audience engagement, including a web developer, a digital strategist, a digital transformation consultant and a creative entrepreneur.
A journalist friend asked our MD recently how the culture sector is adapting, and whether she was seeing exciting examples of digital innovation already emerging from the crisis.
To which she answered yes. And, no. And not yet. Here’s why.
We’re pleased to announce that Patternmakers and WolfBrown will be conducting new research to support the arts and culture sector with robust and responsive intelligence to inform critical decision-making and planning over the coming months.
In this post, we share what this research is about, the topics it will be exploring, who it’s designed for, and ways to get involved.
We’re grateful for the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, Create NSW, Arts Queensland, and other partners to be announced.
With arts venues, events and festivals being cancelled or postponed for the foreseeable future, it’s a good time to start exploring the offerings online.
Here are a list of great quality digital arts resources you can consume from home, including arts education resources for families.
This week, we’re launching a podcast. ‘Theory of Creativity’ is a series of weekly interviews with experts in research, economics, innovation, advocacy and policy. Here’s some of the reasons why we’re taking time out from client work, to do some listening and learning.
Our team is back at work after the holiday season. It's early days, but we know we want to work differently in 2020. Here are some of our #newyearsresolutions.
2019 has brought its successes and challenges. In this post, MD Tandi Palmer Williams reflects on the highlights and learnings.
In 2019 our MD Tandi Palmer Williams took to LinkedIn to share ideas with you. Here are the top articles that had us talking.
In 2019 our MD Tandi Palmer Williams took to LinkedIn to share ideas with you. Here are the top articles that had us talking.
2019 has brought its successes and challenges. In this post, MD Tandi Palmer Williams reflects on the highlights and learnings.
At Patternmakers, we use incentives to motivate participation in our research projects. This page explains why we use incentives and what we consider in designing appropriate incentives. It also explains how we distribute them to participants.
From 2017 to 2019, Patternmakers developed an Audience Research Toolkit in collaboration with Creative Victoria, Thirst Creative, and almost 300 stakeholders from the Victorian creative arts sector.
In this post, MD Tandi Palmer Williams shares some of the process, and her tips for people using the toolkit to conduct research.
Our team has decades of experience delivering research and evaluation projects. And there are a few things that we’ve noticed about ‘research readiness’. Here are five signs that organisations are primed to get maximum value from research and evaluation projects.