Category Archives: Absolute Classic Rock

September Engagement Metrics

As mobile platforms becomes increasingly important, so Absolute Radio’s listening via a mobile platform continues to grow. In September a record 332,000 hours were streamed via a mobile platform, up 17.7% from August. Always on the forefront of new and emerging technologies, last week the station announced that it had developed a beta version of [...]

New Absolute Radio 90s Apps and A Whole Host of Upgrades

Following on from the successful launch, and current national DAB trail, of Absolute Radio 90s, it seemed logical that the new service should get a dedicated application for mobile phones, especially as we’ve seen audio streaming to mobile devices growth immensely over the last 12 months. So we’re pleased to say that the Absolute Radio 90s [...]

Podcasts on your FM radio thanks to the Nokia N8

Our friends at Nokia are due to launch their new N8 handset shortly and we lucky folks in the One Golden Square Labs team have got our hands on one early. Apart from a huge improvement in social networking integration the N8 boasts a pretty exciting feature in the form of a FM transmitter with [...]

‘Ping’ Absolute Radio On Apple’s New Social Network For iTunes by Dan Thornton

If you’re one of around 160 million iTunes users around the world, or you follow technology news at all, you’ll probably be aware that Apple has released a new social network within iTunes. Named Ping, it lets you follow friends and artists and see what people are buying and recommending. It’s an interesting innovation, and [...]

Absolute Radio Network posts highest reach since Q4 2008 with over 2 million listeners

Absolute Radio’s network reach is back up to over 2 million listeners – the highest since Q4 2008.   The Absolute Radio network posted a 10.9% increase quarter on quarter, 7.5% year on year with 2.02 million listeners with a 13.9% year on year increase in listening hours (+4.5% quarter on quarter).   Listening to [...]