Australian Creative Histories & Futures, 20 August 2026, Australia

From Creative Histories to Futures: Mapping the Cultural Data Sector in Australia is the first report of its kind: a comprehensive picture of how the arts, creative and cultural sector creates, manages, shares and uses data.

Screen Australia, 18 August 2026, Australia

Through five reports and supporting case studies, Screen Currency 2026 explores how audiences now engage with Australian screen and digital games and how local content is created, financed and made available.

Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), 22 July 2026, United Kingdom

This report provides a major contribution to the implementation of the government’s Industrial Strategy in detailing for the first time the trade barriers specific to certain creative industries sub-sectors and to different markets. The analysis is the first at scale study to use official creative industries export data from DCMS in conjunction with OECD Services Trade Restrictiveness Index data.

Welsh Government, 14 July 2026, Wales

This survey covers a sample of businesses and freelancers from the screen, music, digital and publishing sectors in Wales. It follows 3 previous surveys conducted in 2022, 2023, and 2024, allowing comparisons to be drawn between years and helping to identify trends over time. However, it is noted that the sample sizes differ in terms of sector representation and consideration should therefore be …

Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), 14 July 2026, United Kingdom

New research published today by the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Creative PEC) reveals the vital role universities play in supporting place-based growth and innovation. The report ‘Creative Clusters, Geography and University-Industry Links‘ also shows that between 2011 – 2024 the relative importance of the creative industries to regional economies increased for every region and…

Department for Culture, Media & Sport, United Kingdom, 13 July 2026, United Kingdom

Building on the Sector Plan, this Music Plan sets out government and industry action across 10 areas that, taken together, will create the best conditions for our musical talent, entrepreneurs and businesses to succeed. We are more than doubling government investment in grassroots music, transforming the curriculum by recognising music as an essential - not a nice to have - and tackling touting h…