Archive for August, 2011
Re-Orgs Are Good
Usually my blog posts come from one central idea – often a statement, something like “radio uses Twitter wrong”. I then sit down and try and back it up with some evidence or just have a bit of a rant. For example, often the RAJAR ones start with a belief, that I quickly research, and [...]
Least Worst Options
I was reading Mark Ramsay’s piece about Pandora. If you don’t know, Pandora is a (very popular) streaming radio service in the US. It’s something we don’t really have in the UK. I imagine that’s because of a combination of different things – music rights, early Spotify deployment and a strong existing radio product. One [...]
State of Radio – Q2/11
I’m a big believer in RAJAR. It’s a big survey that talks to lots of people. When i’ve commissioned my own research, using a very different methodology the numbers are comparable. Also, i’m a big believer in trend being the best way to look at numbers. Of course, there may be oddities in any survey, but [...]
What are you listening to?
No, not a RAJAR post. Maybe one of those later. This has been around a while – a guy, Ty Cullen, in New York stopped people in the street and asked what they were listening to on their iPods. Here’s the video: There’s also another one that’s been done, this time in London… I think [...]