InstantEncore is the leading provider of mobile solutions to performing arts organizations around the globe. Our partners use the InstantEncore platform to power their mobile apps, enhance live experiences and create deeper relationships with their audiences. InstantEncore partners include Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Curtis Institute of Music and Dallas Summer Musicals. With Tessitura™ Network, Inc., our partners include the New York Philharmonic, The Shaw Festival and Santa Fe Opera.
Our recent “Spring Into Summer” App Downloads Contest gave us some great results: Six contest winners and even more participants who all increased their app downloads and therefore the number of audience members they can engage. One participant in particular stood out in the crowd. TimeLine Theatre entered the contest with only 12 days remaining….
Cultivating Custom Content with Ticket Philadelphia
Ticket Philadelphia is not your typical fine arts mobile app. Covering seven different performances spaces, it takes more than just setting up event listings and selling tickets to be successful (as a Tessitura software user, this is handled by an integration with their database). It requires providing helpful resources about these venues to make sure…
Acquiring Stellar App Downloads with Levitt Pavilion Arlington
How do you inspire people to download your mobile app? It’s a question that everyone faces when planning their mobile strategy. One arts organization has found a particularly successful answer this summer. The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Arlington, Texas presents more than 50 free outdoor concerts each year with a broad-based calendar…
Why Should I Download Your App? (and Other Questions to Guide Your App Promotion Strategy)
One of the questions that our partners often ask us is, “How do I get more people to download our app and use it?” Of course, the specific answer to this question varies from partner to partner based on how they promote and utilize their apps. With a hat tip to the Socratic method, here…
Setting up a Facebook Call-to-Action Button
The 1.50 update brings some great changes to your Mobile App, both on the surface and under the hood. One less than obvious update has been the inclusion of what are known as “Deep Links”. These are links that let you direct people to specific tabs in your app from external sources. Now, Facebook has…
Tips for Promoting Your Mobile App, Part 2: Encouraging Downloads When Patrons Attend Events
In part 1 of this blog series, we shared some tips for encouraging your patrons to download your mobile app when they are not at a performance. So what can you do to encourage your audience to download your app when they are attending one of your performances? Curtis Institute of Music displays this six-foot…
Tips for Promoting Your Mobile App, Part 1: Encouraging Downloads When Patrons Are Off-Site
One of the questions our partners frequently ask is, “How should we promote our app?” To help you answer that question, we decided to provide you with some tips. However, there is so much information that we had to break it into two separate posts. We’ll start with tips for how to promote your app…