A couple of weeks back I put up a survey because I was interested in seeing which websites or online services people use to find out what’s going on around Birmingham.
We’ve had 100 submissions, which seems like a good place to draw things to a close and have a look at the results:
Listings/what’s on
70 – Venues’ own websites
49 – CiBmail
30 – Birmingham City Council – What’s On
29 – Live Brum
18 – What’s on in Brum
17 – Ticketmaster
14 – Visit Birmingham
10 – Scene Central
6 – Birmingham Alive
4 – Birmingham Gig Guide
4 – What’s On Midlands (online)
Suggestions left in the ‘other’ box included The Ticketsellers, Last.fm, Songkick, Ents24, Brum Notes, finditinbirmingham.com, More Canals Than Venice, The Wire and Upcoming.
Arts/culture news
80 – Created in Birmingham
76 – Blogs/social network updates from individual artists/organisations
34 – Digbeth is Good
32 – BiNS
32 – More Canals Than Venice
24 – Birmingham Post/Mail (online)
20 – Arts Council England Arts News
15 – Audiences Central
Others included Ryan’s Gig Guide, An Craic, We Are Eastside and Area Magazine.
Who filled out the survey?
We had a roughly 50:50 male/female split, a wide spread of ages (with a slight skew to 18-25 and 26-35) and pretty much everyone has a B postcode, with a smattering of WV and DY’s too.
Any conclusions?
Nothing really concrete, but it was interesting. I’ve got an idea of the level of web traffic of some of the sites listed, so I know that the results certainly doesn’t indicate which are the most popular websites around the city. However, you could say that this shows which other websites overlap with CiB’s readership.
If anything, I was expecting the Post & Mail to come up a bit higher. Nice to see Live Brum up there.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out and/or forward on the survey.
I think the most interesting / surprising result is that the venues own websites are so far at the top of the list ahead of listings websites!
Birmingham Alive! showing so low down isn’t actually a surprise to me, since the site isn’t really a listings website anymore, more of a news & reviews site – & I take the listings feed from LiveBrum now anyway.
But then there are hundreds of venues/organisations with their own websites – looking at it now, it’s a bit of a catch-all option. Just thinking from my own usage, when looking for gigs I’ll quite often look up the Academy, Institute and Glee Club’s own sites.
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