Creative Australia, 02 September 2026, Australia

This research explores how creative organisations across Australia use evaluation to learn, adapt and understand the impact of their work. Drawing on examples and case stories from organisations of different artforms, locations and sizes, it highlights how evaluation can support decision-making, advocacy and accountability - while building on the reflective and iterative ways creative organisatio…

UNESCO, 01 September 2026, South Africa

UNESCO has released a new research report titled “Behind the Screens in South Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs of Digital Content Creators,” shedding light on the growing influence, practices and challenges of digital content creators within South Africa’s evolving information ecosystem.

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 …