Category Archives: Media

Search Traffic by Adrian Fitch

In mid-October Clive asked me to forecast what I thought our search traffic would be by the end of the year. It had only taken six weeks for searches containing “absolute” to overtake those containing “virgin” so how high would it climb over the next eleven weeks?
This wasn’t the most robust of forecasts. I didn’t [...]

Emails To Virgin Radio Domain Names by Stuart Edwards

We’re soon to lose our old Virgin Radio domain names, so we thought it would be a good idea to run some reports and see how we’re getting on with reducing the amount of incoming emails to those domains.
We were hoping that our system of bouncing emails back to the senders and asking them to [...]

Commercial Radio Q3 2008

Below is a presentation from the RadioCentre showing how commercial radio is doing currently following the most recent RAJAR figures released for Q3 2008. Amongst other things, the slides show that commercial radio is very good at reaching a younger audience, and how in places such as London, Glasgow and Birmingham, there is more listening [...]

Tim Shaw on “Sachsgate”

Tim Shaw debates with Nigel Evans MP, Shadow Culture Minister on Sky News about the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair.

Absolute Radio TV Ad Schedule w/c 13 October