Posts by Matt Deegan
Jobs By Twitter
Alan Geere who heads up Editorial at Northcliffe South has just put out an interesting job ad. Well, the job’s not particularly interesting, it’s a call for reporters on his titles. The way he’s asked for it though is. He only wants replies through Twitter as an @message. He says: I’m fed up wading through [...]
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 [...]
An Award for Shows or Podcasts
An email from Suzie at the BT Digital Music Awards, reminding me about the Best Radio Show or Podcast category and that it’s nearly the closing date (15th July, now 19th July). It’s open to any music-related podcasts or radio shows created by a company with a UK presence and available via digital platforms to [...]
Next Radio Conference
I’m a big fan of ideas. I read about them, seek out things I can watch or listen to that have them in and, where I can, go to conferences where people reveal them. Obviously I spend a lot of my time doing radio things and i’m always keen to hear what people have been [...]
Apple’s Cloud Announcement: Four Types of Music User
A whole wave of announcements at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference today, but for me the most interesting thing is that the nature of music downloading has now changed. Apple had two music announcements connected to its new iCloud service. The first was that any music you’ve bought through iTunes would now automatically sync across all [...]
Tweeknotes 30th May – 5th June
A return to tweeknotes – things i’ve tweeted about in the past week and other things that have popped into my head. Lots of news recently about X and Xtra Factor judges and hosts chopping and changing. We had months of “who’ll be the X-Factor USA hosts and judges” and we’ve had the Cheryl sacking/re-appointment [...]
Radio’s Twitter Obsession
Dick Stone wrote a blog post about Twitter last month, touching on the fact that stations looking at Twitter buzz has replaced “all the lines lit up” as justification for a particular feature etc. I’d go a bit further than what he said and say that radio has an unhealthy and incorrect obsession with Twitter. [...]