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§ 09 · Nation-brand & culture teams

Tourism boards & public sector

How your culture travels — measured.

Nation-brand and culture teams need to know how their culture is consumed at home and abroad. Cadence measures it behaviourally — the local-vs-imported balance, attention by geography, and the tone of coverage.

The question this desk brings

“How is our country’s culture being consumed at home and abroad?”

What Cadence reads for you — now

  • The local-vs-imported balance across music and screen — cultural self-consumption vs export.
  • Attention by geography (Wikipedia by language edition) and national news tone.
  • The national thematic weather — what the home conversation is about and how it’s shifting (GDELT GKG themes).
  • The cultural-register read for nation-brand and soft-power narratives.
Example read

France, this window: local repertoire is the clear majority of chart presence (~63%, measured artist-origin) and domestic culture dominates attention — a strong inward cultural moment, measurable and receipted for a nation-brand story.

Data we’d add for this sector

Sector-specific layers we can fold in — public, scrapable, API (free or via tools we hold) or datasets we already own. The signal stack extends to the question.

Inbound flight search by origin Google Flights via SearchApi — which markets are looking to visit, origin → destination.
Destination search by geography Google Trends geo (we hold the pipeline) — interest in your destinations, market by market.
International news tone & themes GDELT — we hold tone; adding GKG themes shows how your country is framed abroad, not just how positively.
Wikipedia by language edition We hold the pipeline — attention to your culture across languages, a clean soft-power proxy.

Want this read for your market?

The France edition is open in full as the proof of craft. The same stack, cut for your desk, is one commission away.