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Kirrilee Hay, Head of Marketing at Adelaide Fringe, Digital Adelaide 2023 speaker
Digital Adelaide 2023

Kirrilee Hay

Head of Marketing

Adelaide Fringe

Kirrilee Hay leads marketing at Adelaide Fringe, one of the world's largest open-access arts festivals. Her talk at Digital Adelaide 2023 explored how to build a brand and grow audiences in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment — sharing how Fringe crossed one million tickets sold and what got them there.

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Kirrilee Hay

Head of Marketing, Adelaide Fringe

Mission to One Million: How Adelaide Fringe achieved a milestone of one million tickets in 2023

Kirrilee revealed the marketing strategy that helped Adelaide Fringe reach the landmark of one million tickets sold in 2023. She shared the campaign thinking, channel mix, and audience insights that drove record attendance — and what it takes to market the world's second-largest arts festival to an increasingly competitive attention landscape.

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