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
Here’s a little local story. I spent a LARGE chunk of my working life, just under 20 years, working for BRMB, the first commercial station in Birmingham, in the UK. I joined them 35 years ago, pre-launch, as a baby rock jock, and left as Head of Music and Research, having done pretty much everything [...]
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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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I may be a bit slow, but I still haven’t fully processed what’s happening to Virgin Radio. So they’ve been bought by an Indian media conglomerate. Fine. So they’re dropping the name. Sure – I get it.
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But the new bosses appear to be – bloggers? Not only that – [...]
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For non-Brits, you may have missed the news that, last week, Global finally bought GCap. It makes them the largest group in Europe. We’re not talking US-style size, but pretty damn big. Some pithy commentary from Paul Robinson in Monday’s Guardian. Today… programming cuts are announced.
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