Category Archives: Media

Some Questions For You by Clive Dickens

12Feb

Question 1: Which city is one the largest radio markets in Europe by revenue?
Question 2: What is the most important target audience for most UK radio advertisers?
Question 3 : Which RAJAR metric dictates your share of radio campaign revenues – reach or hours?
Question 4 : Which radio station & music & entertainment brand is up [...]

Categories: Media absolute 1

Posted by adam on February 12, 2010

Radio Production Awards Nominations

13Jan

Last night in Manchester, the nominations for the inaugural Radio Academy Production Awards were announced, and Absolute Radio did exceptionally well winning three nominations.
These new awards, launched by The Radio Academy and The Radio Independents Group, are designed to recognise and celebrate the work of UK-based radio and audio producers. Where the Sony Radio [...]

Categories: Events Media 0

Posted by adam on January 13, 2010

Radio at the Edge 2009 by Adam Bowie

10Nov

Yesterday in London saw the Radio Academy’s Radio at the Edge conference.
Hosted by James Cridland, it saw lots of talk and discussion about the future of radio, audio, websites, interactivity, and all things related to radio in the UK (and beyond).
A few highlights:
Mikko Linnamaki from Spodtronic.com and Mark Rock from Audioboo talked about mobile. Mikko [...]

Categories: Media Technology labs podcasts 2

Posted by adam on November 10, 2009

Absolute Radio Stats by Adam Bowie

23Oct

Today, Absolute Radio is launching our new Stats page.
As it says on the page on itself, in our ongoing attempt to be as open as we possibly can, we’re starting to release some of our internet listening figures. These are taken from our audio streams, and is based on information derived directly from our [...]

Categories: Media Technology 3

Posted by adam on October 23, 2009

3 Reasons Smart Radio People Had Better Scream by Mark Ramsey from hear 2.0

15Apr

There are at least three challenges that every broadcaster is going to have to overcome in order to secure their future.
1. Relevance
Once upon a time in a world of lower expectations and far fewer choices, “relevance” meant something that was vaguely good enough for everybody. The very roots of “broad” “casting” imply the [...]

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Posted by adam on April 15, 2009