I’ve just come back from CES, and one of the overwhelming impressions I’ve had is that screen displays get better and better every year. There are many devices with beautiful UI – but radio within them is a bit of a boring, 97.3-like affair.
Radio has to compete with visually-rich media on the same device if [...]
Categories: Development, Digital
Tagged: visual glanceable radio
Last week I was spending some very inspiring days at Stream08 in Athens. Stream is a worldwide gathering of industry leaders and entrepreneurs from media, technology and finance in a resort in Greece. WPP the largest marketing communications agency in the world hosts this ‘unconference’.
On the agenda were the challenges of the current economic [...]
Categories: Commercial, Digital, Internet, Legal, Management, Music, Ownership, Strategy
Tagged: advertising income, recession, stream08
Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve been involved in a research project with the BBC. We’ve been looking at what listeners and fans do online. The project investigated notions of interactivity; it looked at the ways in which fans of specific presenters express their fandom online; it examined the things that fans of [...]
Categories: Audience, Digital, Music, Strategy
Tagged: BBC, broadcast, online, orientation
I remember the good old days of the radio survey. The airwaves were suddenly flooded with juicy prizes, jocks did prep for a change and promotional street teams were stunned by the arrival of half decent giveaways. At the heart of this unnatural flurry of activity was the mythical “diary”. You know the one. An [...]
I just read the post below this one – a great and interesting piece by my colleague Robin Valk – regarding the iPhone and Pandora’s wildly successful app for it. As he points out, it is a huge step forward as it brings together many of the things that need to be present whenever [...]
Categories: Digital, Music, Programming, Satellite Radio
Tagged: Content, E Street Radio, Micro-channels, radio, Satellite Radio, Sirius, Springsteen