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Archives: Journal Posts

  • Making Your Website Accessible to Everyone: An Essential Guide

    Posted on 18th June 2024

    Website accessibility is about ensuring everyone can access and interact with your digital content, regardless of their abilities or the technology they use. As technology evolves, so do the possibilities for your website, making accessibility an ongoing effort.

  • SEO in the AI Era: Controlling the Controllables

    Posted on 14th June 2024

    Welcome to the AI era, where a great deal in the technological world is about to change – and relatively quickly. In the face of this, should you change your approach to SEO?

  • Fond memories from AMA conferences

    Posted on 10th June 2024

    Hans remembers some personal stories from AMA conferences from the past.

  • Is Your Website Running on Fumes? Give it an MOT!

    Posted on 25th March 2024

    Websites are like cars. They take us places, help us connect with people, and showcase what we're all about. But just like a car, if you don't give your website a regular MOT it can start sputtering and coughing.

  • HdK Officially Certified as a B Corp™

    Posted on 25th March 2024

    B Corps™ are businesses that are held to the highest standards of social and environmental responsibility, transparency, and accountability. It's not just about saying you care, it's about proving it through rigorous assessments and ongoing commitments.

  • HdK Celebrates 20 Years of Innovation in Arts Marketing

    Posted on 25th March 2024

    Hans looks back at 20 years of innovation in arts marketing as HdK celebrates a major milestone.

  • Empowering Your Users and Keeping Google Happy: Introducing CookieYes

    Posted on 24th March 2024

    Do your visitors mind if their data is used to improve the website experience? Google Consent Mode V2 (GCM v2) is going to have an impact on you manage that information. HdK have done the research and have found a solution that we're offering to our clients.

  • 5 tips digital marketers can learn from Taylor Swift’s strategy

    Posted on 20th March 2024

    This blog post looks into how Taylor Swift leverages social media to build relationships with her dedicated audience over two decades.

  • How to Enhance Your Arts Organisation’s Digital Marketing with AI

    Posted on 5th March 2024

    This blog post looks into how marketing professionals can use artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify daily activities and provides tips and tricks on how to best use this technology.

  • Service Level Agreement (SLA)

    Posted on 24th January 2024

    At HdK, we are continually looking for ways to improve our services and the delivery of our services. As such, we are pleased to share our revised Service Level Agreement (SLA) for 2024.

  • When Geography Meets Digital Marketing at HdK

    Posted on 12th December 2023

    We consider the overlap between Geography and Digital Marketing when two students from Oaklands School pay us a visit.

  • From entertainment to enterprise: Tips for hosting successful virtual events

    Posted on 23rd November 2023

    It’s no secret that the live arts industry suffered during the pandemic. To make up for these losses, many artists turned to virtual events. While many of our pandemic-era changes have returned to normal, ticketed virtual events have stuck around. So, from company webinars to video game concerts, how can we take advantage of this new territory?

  • From London’s East End to New York’s East Side: The Parallel Paths of Art and Culture

    Posted on 15th November 2023

    In late October 2023 Hans visited New York to meet with HdK client Movement Research at absorb some arts and culture. In this blog post, Hans reflects on his trip.

  • What we know so far about Meta’s Broadcast Channels

    Posted on 20th October 2023

    Have you noticed a flurry of invites to join Broadcast Channels in your Instagram DMs? Us too. Here’s what we know so far about Meta’s new one-way chat.

  • Girl math to get behind: How female purchasing power took hold of the economy this summer and what marketers can learn from it

    Posted on 5th October 2023

    As we move into ‘cosy season’ it feels timely to reflect on the whirlwind of a summer that the entertainment and culture industry had this year. With the release of Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated Barbie, Beyoncé's glittering Renaissance tour and Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl style Eras tour - it’s safe to say that 2023 really was a 'hot girl summer', turning up the heat on the economy too.

  • How arts organisations can use digital marketing to communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility

    Posted on 4th September 2023

    Over the last decade, Corporate Sustainability Responsibility (CSR) has been on the rise. Alongside that, digital marketing and technology has rapidly advanced making it increasingly easy for consumers to track corporate activity. Although we are not experts in CSR, we are well informed on marketing endeavours and believe that arts organisations should take initiative and utilise digital marketing to communicate their CSR practices.

  • Making the most of LinkedIn – How to conquer the algorithm in 2023

    Posted on 3rd August 2023

    With 810 million members worldwide, and counting, LinkedIn has become the most powerful professional network for organisations to connect with potential employees, visitors and partners. To help you make the most of the platform, we’ve summarised LinkedIn’s latest advice on how the algorithm works.

  • What’s going on with Twitter?

    Posted on 27th July 2023

    This week Twitter has officially been rebranded to "X". Here's everything you need to know about the recent changes to Twitter.

  • How to leverage the power of influencer marketing as an arts organisation

    Posted on 24th July 2023

    This blog post explores the topic of influencer marketing for the arts and provides some practical tips on how to get started, with case studies from Barbican and Tate.

  • What you need to know about Meta’s Threads

    Posted on 13th July 2023

    Meta just released their newest platform, Threads, and here is everything you need to know.

  • How is zero-party data changing brands’ relationships with consumers?

    Posted on 6th July 2023

    Zero-party data, a term coined in 2020 by Forrester Research, is defined as “data that a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a brand.” As privacy regulations snub marketer’s main sources of consumer intel left and right, zero-party data is becoming more valuable than ever.

  • Everything you need to know about GA4

    Posted on 5th July 2023

    Universal Analytics (UA) changed to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in July 2023. Learn how to customise your GA4 to make the most of the switch.

  • Is my website environmentally friendly?

    Posted on 14th June 2023

    We are moving towards a more environmentally friendly world and it has become crucial to implement changes not only in the physical realm, but also in the virtual realm. So, how do we make websites environmentally friendly?

  • How to meet website accessibility guidelines in 2023

    Posted on 18th May 2023

    “Essential for some, useful for all’ - W3C

  • Five Instagram features you might have missed

    Posted on 17th April 2023

    Instagram is always evolving to suit the needs and behaviours of its users, and because humans are ever-changing and ever-demanding, these updates just keep on coming. It’s important to stay in the loop as much as possible in order to keep up with your competitors and make your content go further.

  • Return to the Metaverse

    Posted on 27th March 2023

    Resources for the Metaverse

  • Website hosting packages

    Posted on 25th March 2023

    This post explains why we structure our website hosting packages and walks you through our sustainable, powerful and secure hosting package options.

  • Eight inspiring women in the arts, chosen by the women of HdK

    Posted on 22nd March 2023

    To celebrate Women’s History Month 2023, we’ve put together a selection of some of our favourite women who have contributed to the arts. While this list is in the spirit of Women’s History Month, these women inspire us year round and for many of us, have been life-long influential figures.

  • Gartner Hype Cycle – the trend of trends

    Posted on 26th February 2023

    The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight wrote Robin Sharma. When we navigate the maze of emerging technologies it's useful to have a template to help see beyond the hype.

  • An Inside Look into TikTok for Business

    Posted on 29th September 2022

    As TikTok becomes a more widely used social media platform, it has grown to include a business service for organisations to effectively and creatively promote their products and services through short form videos.

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