Our Conferences
Audience Strategies co-founded the Entertainment Analytics Conference in 2016 and has helped organise it ever since. We also run AudienceCON, a conference on audience intelligence, and David Boyle hosts the TMRE Insights Executive Retreat for Informa and LIONS.
Entertainment Analytics Conference
Since 2016
The conference was founded in Los Angeles in August 2016 with Carnegie Mellon University and Chapman University. The United Kingdom series began at The Lowry, Salford in January 2017.
Twelve editions took place across Los Angeles, Marina del Rey, Salford and Manchester between 2016 and 2026. The most recent edition was held on 10th and 11th September 2026 at MediaCityUK, Salford.
How it works
Attendance is by invitation only. Each edition brings together around thirty to sixty senior data and analytics people from broadcasters, streamers, publishers, music, games and academia.
David Boyle co-chairs the conference. It runs under the Chatham House Rule. Talks are shared and attributed only by sector.
Why it matters to Audience Strategies
We are in it to share and to learn. Each year we bring what we have found in our own work on audience data, analytics and language models, and we hear what thirty or forty practitioners have found in theirs. Their thinking fuels ours, and ours fuels theirs.
The room has become a community. People come back year after year, compare notes between editions, and test ideas on each other that would never survive a conference stage. That is the point of the format, and it is why we keep organising it.
AudienceCON
AudienceCON is our one-day, invite-only conference on audience intelligence. The first was held on Wednesday 7th June 2023 at Pulsar's office in Hatton Garden, London. David Boyle organised and chaired it with a core group of partners: Pulsar, Audiense, Lively, Contagious and Insight Platforms.
About 85 people came in person and the whole day was livestreamed. Speakers came from McCann Worldgroup, Adobe, Wunderman Thompson Data, The Craftory, Token||Traxx, CHIPS / Measure of Music, m/SIX, TEAM LEWIS, Insight Platforms, Lively and Pulsar. Our own Richard Bowman and Louisa Livingston ran a session on ChatGPT. Every filmed session is in the archive.
There will be more AudienceCON events. If you'd like to hear about the next one, or to be part of it, get in touch.
TMRE Insights Executive Retreat
With Informa and LIONS
David Boyle has chaired TMRE, The Market Research Event, since 2015, and since 2022 he has hosted its Insights Executive Retreat: an invite-only, off-the-record day for senior consumer-insight leaders from large brands, run by Informa and LIONS under the Chatham House rule.
There have been six so far: San Antonio in 2022, Denver in 2023, a virtual meet-up in 2024, Las Vegas in 2025, Cannes in June 2026 at the LIONS Insights and Strategy Summit, and Denver again in October 2026.
Each retreat has its own notes, written so the ideas can travel and the people stay private. We have also read all six side by side, to show what the room talks about and how that has changed.