Monthly Archives: March 2009

Absolute Radio To Sell Planet Rock Advertising by Donnach O’Driscoll

24Mar

We wanted to tell you first: alongside our own network of stations Absolute Radio will sell Planet Rock’s airtime and online advertising from 1st April 2009. This means media-buyers will be able to target a compelling national audience of music-passionate, male-focused listeners in a core demographic of 30-54 year olds in one streamlined media-buy from [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio Brands 8

Posted by adam on March 24, 2009

Congratulations to Clare Baker!

20Mar

Clare Baker has been shortlisted for the prestigious Marketing Society Awards in the Young Marketer of the Year category! The Marketing Society Awards for Excellence set the standard of marketing excellence in the UK as they are the only awards which recognize marketing excellence across all business sectors making this nomination praise indeed. Clare’s achievements [...]

Categories: Absolute Radio marketing People 1

Posted by carrie on March 20, 2009

TBI Media and Absolute Coldplay

20Mar

The Producer’s Blog – Phil Critchlow – Creative Director – TBI Media I’ve been making radio for over 20 years, the first ten at the BBC and independently now for another 12, including an inspiring run at Unique working for Tim Blackmore and Simon Cole. After four years as Director of Programmes there I decided [...]

Categories: Events 0

Posted by adam on March 20, 2009

When An Advert Annoys You by Adam Bowie

18Mar

At the weekend, BBC Radio 4 aired a documentary entitled Radio Sales. It covered advertising in the UK for the last 80 years from advertisers who used stations like Radio Luxembourg, through pirate radio (soon to be featured in the new Richard Curtis film The Boat That Rocked), to the launch of legal commercial radio [...]

Categories: Media 6

Posted by adam on March 18, 2009

Twitter by Tony Moorey

17Mar

If you see me, feel free wish me happy birthday. It’s not my real birthday, that I would like you to remember is 26th September, but this Saturday is my second Twitter birthday. It was then, during 2007’s SXSW that use of the service first exploded, as attendees of the Interactive festival used it to [...]

Categories: Media People Technology 3

Posted by adam on March 17, 2009