Selling Out

According to Pamela Bump for HubSpot, "In 2019, Instagram Stories hit 500 million daily users." Bump continues: "Since launching in 2016, the Stories feature alone has made Instagram more popular than other Story and mobile video platform competitors including Snapchat, TikTok, and its owner's own platform: Facebook Stories." In order to help us up audience engagement,  Bump "surveyed 350 people using Lucid software to learn more about their favorite Story formats, sound preferences, and ideal Story length," and she highlights "what consumers said about their favorite...

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Most of us -- likely even all of us -- use Twitter. We use it to make announcements, reach new audiences and engage our patrons. And we're always looking for new ideas to inspire our tweets. Kristi Kellogg for Search Engine Journal shares 21 things to tweet. We share two ideas below, then read the rest here: "• Share Helpful Tips or On-Brand Messages Tweets don’t only have to link back to a specific blog post. Use Twitter to share one-off tips and...

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We promised you new voices. And, well, we’re certain we delivered when 17-year-old Marshall W. Mabry IV took the stage at TEDxBroadway 2019 for his talk -- "The Intersectionality of Black Boys and Shakespeare." OK. Marshall delivered. Twice. A little background -- Marshall was one of hundreds who submitted their idea for a talk to us during our open submission period (we’ll have more news on that soon). When we got together with the alum committee to review submission videos months before the event, it...

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Broadway Crew promotes shows in the Times Square area. They’ve worked with Mean Girls, King Kong, Hadestown, Freestyle Love Supreme, Slave Play, Beetlejuice and many more. Below, co-founder Sam Clark talks with us about his vision for launching his theater promotions company, word-of-mouth marketing and how to create an effective team of brand ambassadors. SO: Broadway Crew is relatively new. How did the idea come about for this service? SC: Since moving to NY from Australia in 2012, I have worked...

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Here are the top Broadway shows last week, ranked by Revenue Per Seat – the one and only metric marketers should use to determine the success of their efforts. Why? Average Ticket Price doesn’t tell the whole story when empty seats are NOT factored into the equation. To determine RPS, we divided the grosses by venue capacities. Highlighting RPS demonstrates a different and more interesting story about which shows can bring in value per seat versus simply being big, because...

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