2nd Edition

The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing

Edited By Ian Fillis, Boram Lee, Adelina Broadbridge Copyright 2026
324 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

324 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analysing the complex intersections between artists, creatives and markets, this new and revitalised edition addresses the world that is emerging following and during a period of global crisis. Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, the book explores the impact of the turbulent external environment, including post Covid-19 effects on organisations and artists at community, national... Read more

Part I. Arts consumption and how arts marketers utilise appropriate strategies to engage with consumers

1. Art collecting in a digital age

Russell Belk

2. Arts consumption

Gretchen Larsen and James Obiegbu

3. Opera marketing today: key challenges for development and widening access

Peter Fraser and Iain Fraser

4. Fine art marketing and consumption

Kate MacNeill and Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios

5. Consumption criteria in arts marketing

Morris B. Holbrook

Part II . Audiences and their engagement with arts and cultural events and activities

6. Audience development: lessons for arts marketing about including disabled people

Ruth Rentschler and Ayse Collins

7. Understanding audiences and marketing theatre

Ben Walmsley

8. Membership and subscription in the performing arts: what have we learnt during the last 45 years?

Alix Slater, Tammi Murphy and Kerrie Fuller

9. The impact of the arts experience on audiences

Jennifer Radbourne

10. Gaining deeper insight into audiences and artists: the use of autoethnography in arts research

Marta Massi and Paul Harrison

Part III. The role of entrepreneurship and its impact on arts marketing practice

11. Cultural entrepreneurship and collecting: a joint perspective

Ian Fillis and Kim Lehman

12. The artist as marketer and entrepreneur

Ian Fillis

13. Traditional vs. entrepreneurial marketing of arts/cultural organisations

Theresa A. Kirchner and John B. Ford

Part IV. Issues relating to effective arts marketing practice

14. The art of marketing arts marketing to artists

Suzette Major

15. Mission statement to mission fulfilment: the role marketing plays in a post-COVID world

Marcus Morgan

16. Organizational identity and marketing in the arts

Zannie Giraud Voss and Naomi Grabel

17. Arts marketing and ethics: what you can and Kant do

Terry O’Sullivan

Part V. The arts and cultural marketplace and the operationalisation of arts marketing

18. Are art fairs still relevant intermediaries in today’s art world?

Catherine Morel

19. Actor–Object relationships: navigating the art market and the social constructs of value

Chloe Preece

20. The books business: what just happened?

Stephen Brown

21. Cultural economics and arts markets

Sam Cameron

Part VI . Pricing issues in the arts and the techniques used by arts marketers in engaging consumers

22. Pricing the performing arts

Jennifer Wiggins

Part VII. Other issues in the arts marketing domain

23. Postmodernism and post-postmodernism and arts marketing

Laurie A. Meamber

24. Arts managers’ career insights and their marketing implications

Uma Jogulu and Ruth Rentschler

Biography

Ian Fillis is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Boram Lee is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, University of South Australia, AU.

Adelina Broadbridge taught and researched at the Institute for Retail Studies and Marketing, University of Stirling, UK.

"It is wonderful to see this new edition of the Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing which reflects where we are in the arts following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the companion combines theoretical and sectoral breath in shedding light on what makes arts marketing challenging and important." 

Finola KerriganUniversity of Birmingham, UK