Posts filed under “General Posts”
Austereo’s Roadtrip Forever
I think commercial radio’s biggest issue is that it forgets that its job is to provide compelling entertainment and experiences to its listeners and successful, innovative products to its advertisers. Commercially, particularly, radio needs to raise its game above spots and a bit of S&P. I really like what Austereo have done with the Transport [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Radiodays Europe: Thursday Morning
Being Big
In this world of micro-marketing, twitter, being low-key, authentic and grass-rootsy, it’s nice to see someone do something BIG!
Have the BBC just given up on local radio websites?
Recently someone was talking to me about trying to get a job at a local BBC radio station and he mentioned that he felt their online offer was a bit poor. I’d agreed and said, as far as I understood, it wasn’t an area that’s particularly well resourced locally and he should probably steer clear [...]
The True Cost of Twitter’s Deal with Vodafone UK
When Twitter first started you could get your updates for free on your mobile phone through SMS. This is great, until you get more than ten friends and it starts to get annoying. What was good was that you could get DMs (direct messages) texted or just choose which followers you wanted to get SMSs [...]