Archive for February, 2011
Tweeknotes – 21st to 27th February
Some things that caught my tweet attention this week… Jem Stone remarking that the Top 40 only has one song from a guitar act (also the same this week too). Jeff Smith pointing to a good website showing the radio ratings from some major markets. A Spotify playlist of all the songs from all the [...]
Tweeknotes – 14th to 20th February
So, what have we learned this week? Well, here’s some reminders from looking at my tweet stream. CRC in Canada continues to make great open source tools for the radio community. Their latest is the source that allows better control of radio in certain Android phones. This means that radio groups (and others) can build [...]
Success From Data
I spend more and more of my time with data. And I love it. Being clever and efficient is much easier if your content and any inputs/outputs of your business are structured and well described. What does that mean? Well, I think anything that you create should be able to be used multiple times for [...]
Tweeknotes – 7th to 13th February
I love the idea of weeknotes, blog posts that talk about what you’ve been up to in the week. I’m never focused enough to write them though. As i’ve passed a twitter milestone – 5,000 tweets – I thought that using my tweets might mean a more interesting chronology of my week. Instead of ‘this [...]
Radio App Stats. What does it all mean?
My inbox has just pinged with news from the Global Radio bunker. It says… ONE MILLION APPLE DOWNLOADS FOR CAPITAL FM *first commercial station to break through million single-platform downloads* Global Radio, the UK’s largest commercial radio group, has revealed that its Capital FM mobile application was downloaded for the millionth time yesterday by iPhone [...]
Marketing Innovation
One of the disappointing things about doing lots of digital things for radio stations, is that it rarely gets the marketing focus the other elements of a station does. A billboard for a new cash promotion – sure! Money to promote a new listener club? Not normally. This is often a waste, as it means [...]
RAJAR Q4/2010. What have we learned?
RAJAR is never about individual quarters, it’s all about the trend. Successful stations are built on a strong base (something Dick Stone wrote about yesterday) but then thrive on being consistent. Listeners abhor change (whether it’s good for them or not) and changes in music, presenters or a myriad of other things rarely goes down [...]