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 [...]
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Tagged: advertising income, recession, stream08
Take a look at the Richard Park feature in today’s Guardian. Richard Park (non-UK readers check here for the bio) is now heading up Global, the largest group by far in the UK. And he’s talking a lot of of sense, to my ears at least. Bottom line? Indie Group management should stop whining about [...]
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Andrew Dubber’s post was right on.
As he pointed out, now that social engagement is moving from being a destination to a feature, it’s a big opportunity for radio.
Indeed.
Terrestrial radio has done a lot of things wrong in recent years but a way for them to get back in the game and re-establish their relevance is [...]
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Tagged: Collective Experience, Connection, Engagement, radio, Social Media
The quarterly Rajar figures came out this week. Yet more records beaten at the BBC; yet more muted success at best (and disasters at worst) at the Independents. I don’t know of anywhere else where the state sector trashes the private sector quite so emphatically, do you?
But…. it really doesn’t have to be this way. [...]
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Interesting to see the discussion flowing here at Newradiostrategies regarding the definition of Radio, fuelled by the posts of Robin and Billy.
I wrote a post (unfortunately Dutch language only..) on the definition of Radio last week at radio.nl, a popular Dutch website, related to… Radio and its definition…
I started looking at some welknown definitions too, [...]
Categories: Management