New Fields, New Fruit: Digging Into GF Data's Newly-Added Data | Middle Market Growth
GF Data digs deeper into M&A data from the last four quarters| Middle Market Growth
Above-average financial performers still command higher multiples despite a steady decline in valuation premiums, according to H1 '25 data from GF Data The post GF Data: Premiums Narrow, But Quality Still Gets a Look in H1 appeared first on Middle Market Growth.| Middle Market Growth
GF Data digs deeper into M&A data from the last four quarters| Middle Market Growth
Picture this: you receive a well-crafted, deeply understanding message about a personal struggle you’ve shared. It acknowledges your emotions, offers thoughtful support, and demonstrates genuine care. Now imagine learning that response came from an AI chatbot, not another human. Would that change how you felt about the interaction? As AI technology grows more sophisticated, LLMs […] The post It Feels Like AI Understands, But Do We Care? New Research on Empathy appeared first on Digital Da...| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
You don’t just slam a laptop shut on a friend. You say goodbye. That small social ritual turns out to be a powerful behavioral cue for AI companions, and| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
People increasingly prefer to stay home on weekends – but that doesn’t mean cultural organizations are unable to reach them.| Colleen Dilenschneider
The coronavirus first struck the United States over five years ago, and its effects on visitor behaviors have proven durable for many cultural organizations. In a nutshell, the pandemic embedded some new default habits and accelerated key trends in audience engagement. Here’s a data update on a classic IMPACTS Experience metric: Redistribution of demand. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we observed notable changes in preferences and behaviors related to cultural organization atte...| Colleen Dilenschneider
Personal interactions between guests and staff members can meaningfully elevate the guest experience. Research shows that the fourteen most admired museums in the United States are doing them differently. Here’s the data. For cultural organizations, optimizing guest satisfaction is a no-brainer. Research shows that higher guest satisfaction ratings correlate with repeat attendance, greater likelihood to receive endorsements, heightened likelihood of support – either philanthropic or by be...| Colleen Dilenschneider
From search behavior transformation to cookieless attribution challenges, here's what cultural executives need to know about AI's impact on audience acquisition and the evolving digital marketing landscape. You’ve asked, and the research is in! Here’s our first article on AI related to guest behaviors for cultural organizations. Cultivating attendance for museums and performing arts organizations has fundamentally shifted. Gone are the days when prospective visitors relied solely on tradi...| Colleen Dilenschneider
From Generation Z to Baby Boomers, here is the intel on the sources of information that different generations are using to inform a visit to a museum or performing arts organization. By now, cultural executives understand that social media and digital engagement are critical for an organization’s success. Gone are the days of social media being a tacked-on strategy led by a single intern. Instead, effective social media and digital engagement strategies are woven into the entirety of a cu...| Colleen Dilenschneider
The midyear research is in: What might cultural organizations expect in terms of attendance in 2025 and 2026, and how has this changed since January mindful of happenings surrounding the new administration and its policies, consumer confidence, and other factors less known to Americans at the beginning of the year? Read on for the expected attendance levels for 2025 and 2026, quantified individually by organization type respectively for aquariums, art museums, botanical gardens, children’s ...| Colleen Dilenschneider
Are cultural organizations engaging Millennial and Gen Z members and subscribers at representative rates relative to the population? What is the average age delta between visitors and members? How much does mission matter as a membership motivator? This article has the answers. Membership acquisitions and renewals are unique to each organization and their respective programs and offerings, but current conditions in the United States and within our own institutions have underscored some common...| Colleen Dilenschneider
Exclusive access has experienced 12.8% growth as a primary membership benefit since 2019. What's going on here and why does it matter?| Colleen Dilenschneider
Despite its impressive capabilities in reasoning, planning, and content generation, GenAI still struggles with the kind of mathematics that grade school students are expected to learn and master. What influence do transformers, the core architecture behind Large Language Models (LLMs), have in this problem, and can it be solved? In the new paper “Why Can’t […] The post When Giants Stumble: What Multiplication Reveals about AI’s Capabilities appeared first on Digital Data Design Instit...| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
The promise of Generative AI (GenAI) often sounds like this: give any employee access to AI tools, and they’ll suddenly be able to perform tasks outside| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
As businesses continue to navigate the complexities of product development and innovation, generative AI has the potential to be a powerful new tool for market research. In their recent article for the Harvard Business Review, “Using Gen AI for Early-Stage Market Research,” Ayelet Israeli, co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital Data Design […] The post Larger, Faster, Cheaper: The Future of Market Research with AI appeared first on Digital Data Design Institute at Ha...| Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
This is a guest post by Darren Davis. on Substack!| Greater Auckland
Tracking your website’s exit and bounce rates will give you insight into how your audience engages with your website and the user experience they receive. This information will enable you to make data-driven decisions on performance-related improvements, ensuring your website functions at its optimal capacity. In this article, we explain exactly what exit rates and […] The post Exit Rate vs Bounce Rate – Which One You Should Improve and Why appeared first on pingdom.com.| Blog Posts Archive - Pingdom
Last updated: February 29, 2024 Average size of a webpage matters because it correlates with how fast users get to your content. People today have grown to expect good performance from the web. If your website takes more than 2.5 seconds to load, your users will probably never return to you again. Further, the more […] The post Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters appeared first on pingdom.com.| Blog Posts Archive - Pingdom
Last updated: February 28, 2024 Page load time and response time are key metrics to monitor, and they can give you an in-depth understanding of how your website is performing. However, the difference between page load time and response time isn’t immediately obvious, and neither are the benefits of tracking them independently. In this article, […] The post Page Load Time vs. Response Time – What Is the Difference? appeared first on pingdom.com.| Blog Posts Archive - Pingdom
Well, it’s the last day of the year, so it’s time for a quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened in 2024 for urbanism and transport in our city. A huge thank you to everyone who has visited … Continued| Greater Auckland
This guest post by Tim Adriaansen, an advocate for accessibility and sustainable transport,| Greater Auckland
