Over the past six years, Culture Counts has conducted over 400 economic impact studies to quantify how audience spending at events and activations contributes to the local economy. Business Development Director, Jordan Gibbs, explores Culture Counts' methodology for measuring economic impact and reveals the average results we've seen to date.

Infographics can help your audience to interpret findings, gain context and recognise the importance of your research. Culture Counts' Data Scientist Tom McKenzie explores the benefits of using data visualisation to help tell your story.

The right chart can work wonders for a report, revealing new information, neatly summarising your data and, helping support your conclusions (not to mention breaking up pages of boring text). So how can you work out which chart to use? Data Analyst, Jack Midalia shares some tips.

We've created a quick introduction guide to our Six Step Evaluation Process to help you consistently identify, collect and report the impacts of your activities. 

It's an understatement to say that 2020 has been a challenging year, particularly for many of you reading this. The impacts of COVID-19 have been immense, but we have united to face their challenges and your commitment, perseverance and genuine innovation has been extraordinary to witness.

Our big data set shows that from 2014 to 2020, 94% of respondents that replied to Australian local government surveys, agreed that local event or activity they took part in helped them feel safe and welcome.

30 libraries participated in the first year of the Public Libraries Evaluation Network, using the Culture Counts platform to collect data from communities around Australia about the vital impact of libraries.

Based on feedback and requests received from our clients- we have developed a new feature in our Culture Counts survey platform - to allow for questions to be made compulsory if necessary.

Culture Counts in collaboration with the Municipal Association of Victoria has launched the Victorian Local Government Cultural Dashboard

On 22 July, Indigo-Ltd released the full results of their 6-week audience survey, distributed by 258 UK cultural organisations and capturing over 103k responses.