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Getting the Most Out of Your Data This Spring

alex.cutrone@activitystream.com (Alex Cutrone) — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Data Doesn't Work If You Don't

Spring is a busy season for most arts and entertainment organizations — new productions, renewal campaigns, summer planning already underway. Amid all of that, data has a tendency to become something organizations mean to look at rather than something they regularly do look at. Reports get pulled when something goes wrong, or when a grant report is due, or when someone in a meeting asks a question nobody can immediately answer.

Spring Into the Season: Five Things Venues Should Be Doing Right Now

alex.cutrone@activitystream.com (Alex Cutrone) — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:45:00 GMT

The Calendar Doesn't Wait

Spring arrives quickly in the arts and entertainment calendar. After the relative quiet of late winter, the season accelerates: new productions come online, subscription renewals move into full swing, summer programming starts to take shape. For many organizations, the next eight weeks are some of the highest-stakes of the year.

Two Products, One Platform: What Encore Pro Means for You

alex.cutrone@activitystream.com (Alex Cutrone) — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:00:00 GMT

The Case for Consolidation

There's a familiar tension in how arts and entertainment organizations use technology. On one side: the need for deep, reliable data — ticket sales trends, audience behavior, campaign performance. On the other: the need to act on that data quickly, reaching patrons with the right message through the right channel before the moment passes.

Introducing Encore Pro

alex.cutrone@activitystream.com (Alex Cutrone) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT

One Platform, Built for Live Entertainment

For years, arts and entertainment organizations have managed the complexity of running live events by stitching together multiple tools — one for analyzing ticket sales, another for communicating with audiences, and often several more for everything in between. It works, until it doesn't. Data lives in different places. Teams operate in silos. And the time spent moving between systems is time not spent on the work that actually matters.