Seeing your invisible audience

Out of the shadows: converting companions to subscribers and regular ticket buyers.
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Subscribers and regular ticket buyers are an invaluable audience for performing arts centres and major performing arts companies: a steady source of income whose attendance can be relied upon. But for every subscriber who attends annually there’s often an accompanying friend or partner whose attendance is almost always guaranteed but whose presence goes unrecorded.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts