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
With this site being dedicated to the discussion of radio strategies and all, I thought I would write about something around a radio ‘stategery’ that I have formed and used over the years to guide me in creating great radio content. This strategery consists of a series of rules or “programming pillars” which serve to [...]
Categories: Audience, Music, Production, Programming, Satellite Radio, Strategy
Tagged: Great Content, Programming Pillars, Radio Strategy, Rules
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
Just got back from New York. They had lines round the block all over the city – people wanting to get hold of the new iPhone. So far, so not unusual. But today I read something both unusual, and hugely encouraging. I think we’re finally approaching the era of decent portable internet radio. The admirable [...]
Categories: Development, Digital, Internet, Music, Programming
Tagged: Internet Radio, iPhone, Pandora, Web Streaming