The Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres signed a 12-month contract with Manchester-based agency CTI Digital last month for support on their ticket listing and showcase website.
The partnership will see CTI initially conducting a digital health check and providing hosting. The digital solutions agency will also provide critical and reactive support, with an initial focus on security updates.
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse are two distinct theatres which together make up a single artistic organisation. With a national profile for their work on and off stage, they work extensively in around the Liverpool City Region to transform the lives of the communities they serve, particularly young people. Looking for a stable and long-term partnership, they have on-boarded their primary listing and information website with CTI Digital, securing their 15 years of experience in the digital industry.
The full-service digital agency has previously worked with major ticketing sites, such as Alton Towers and The Bear Grylls Adventure, and has extensive experience building Drupal for the arts and culture industry, for brands including Arts Council England and ArtTutor. As such, the Everyman & Playhouse have committed to working with CTI, to stabilise and continue their growth and presence in the North West area and beyond.
A critical part of choosing a new agency was moving to an organisation that understood our users’ needs and had the technical and strategic capability to invest in our future. Working with CTI Digital, we believe we have found this and look forward to what the next 12 months will bring.
Sarah Ogle, Marketing & Communications Director for Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres
“Beginning a partnership with another not-for-profit client in the Arts and Culture industry feeds greatly into our experience at CTI. Working with Drupal as an open source platform allows us to drive innovation at pace, therefore we look forward to the revelations and achievements we can reach together with Everyman.”
Paul Johnson, Drupal Director at CTI Digital
For more information please contact James Wilkinson, Marketing Director, CTI Digital at 0161 826 4875
Editor’s notes
CTI Digital, part of the Paperhat Group, is one of the UK’s leading full service digital agencies with offices in Manchester and London. In addition to its unrivalled reputation for providing bespoke web solutions using open source technologies such as Drupal, Magento, Umbraco and Shopify, it also has a dedicated marketing team that offers a full range of services to drive customer engagement and retention, and increase sales. CTI Digital has grown rapidly since it was established in 2003, now with a team of over 70 staff servicing a client roster which includes the British Council, Greater London Authority, McGraw Hill Education and Merlin Entertainments. Find out more at: www.ctidigital.com
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse are two distinct theatres, which together make up a single artistic force. We are driven by our passion for our art-form, our love of our city and our unswerving belief that theatre at its best can enhance lives. While our two performance bases could hardly be more different, they are united by our commitment to brilliant, humane, forward-thinking theatre that responds to its time and place. Our youth engagement programme, Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP), has over a thousand members and has been recognised by the Arts Council as a youth arts exemplar. In 2014 YEP was named Stage School of the Year by The Stage. Since the re-opening of the Everyman in 2014 the theatres have received numerous awards including the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture and the UK Theatre Award for promoting diversity.
