Timing that matters
Season announcements, school holidays and the run-up to opening night are the moments that convert. Budget should peak there and drop between productions.
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Demand spikes around programming. A grant account that mirrors the season calendar — and pauses what has sold out — spends far more usefully than one left on autopilot.
Search intent
Who is actually searching
Ticket buyers, workshop parents, members and venue-hire enquiries are four different intents. Grouping them into one “events” campaign wastes most of the budget on the cheapest of them.
Queries we build campaigns around:
things to do in [city] this weekend
kids drama workshop [city]
[show name] tickets
museum free entry days
theatre membership [city]
venue hire [city]
What we track as a conversion
Ticket and season-pass purchases
Workshop and summer-camp registrations
Membership sign-ups
Venue hire enquiries
Without these in Google Ads, Smart Bidding has nothing to aim at — and Smart Bidding is what lifts the $2.00 bid cap that keeps most grant accounts from spending.
The usual failure
Leaving campaigns running for shows that have closed or sold out. Every one of those clicks is paid for in click-through rate and produces nothing.
Where to send the click
Point each production at its own booking page with dates and prices visible. Sending ticket intent to a general “What’s On” listing loses people at the extra click.
The rules are the same everywhere. Every Ad Grant account lives under the 5% click-through floor, the keyword quality rules and the annual survey, whatever the mission. The policy checklist covers all of it.
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