Online Audiences for Arts Programming: A Survey of Virtual Participation amid COVID-19 (Dec 2023 Update

Further, although 29 percent of respondents reported attending in-person performing arts events more often than in the first year of the pandemic, digital consumption of performing arts also did not diminish—53 percent of all respondents reported watching or listening to livestreamed performing arts events either more often or at the same rate, and 62 percent reported watching or listening to arch. [...] At the same time, more young adults reported watching or listening to livestreamed performing arts events less often than in year one of COVID-19—14 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds and 11 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds—compared to 8 percent of all respondents. [...] A relatively small share of respondents 55 years or older reported listening to arts podcasts within the last 12 months, and very few respondents in the same age bracket reported listening to podcasts more often than in the first year of the pandemic (between 3 and 9 percent). [...] Race/Ethnicity Fifty percent of Black/African American, 44 percent of other non-Hispanic and non-White respondents, and 36 percent of Hispanic respondents, reported doing one or more digital activity more often than in the first year of the pandemic—compared to 24 percent of White respondents. [...] For example, 38 percent of Black/African American and 24 percent of Hispanic respondents reported consuming more livestreamed performing arts than in the first year of COVID-19 (compared to 14 percent of White respondents).