Category Archives: People

Absolute Radio Announces Emma Smyth as Head of Sponsorship

  Some great news from One Golden Square.. We’ve appointed Emma Smyth as our new Head of Sponsorship. Emma will take responsibility for sponsorship and commercial partnerships across the Absolute Radio Network. Emma comes from We7 where she has developed her digital knowledge and top-level planning contacts. She has over eight years experience working in advertising sales working [...]

Absolute Radio Announces Remy Kirk as New Advertising Director

We are pleased to announce Remy Kirk as our new Advertising Director. Remy will be taking responsibility for all spot advertising revenue generation, trading, delivery and agency relationships for all at One Golden Square. Remy saw off external candidates with her outstanding reputation amongst the agency marketplace coupled with over seven years of radio experience, [...]

Social Networking: This Time it’s Personal – by James Wigley

Innovations in social media are a bit like buses right now…You wait months for any significant progressions, then suddenly a stream of them career around the corner at once. Perhaps the most significant of these is the launch of Google’s social platform, Google+.  The new “project” (as it’s touted) aims, at its core, to merge [...]

Festivals of all Flavours by Tony Moorey

As the dust has settled and the tents dried out, we have a little time to look back at the Isle of Wight Festival before Absolute Radio Live events moves to Hyde Park for Hard Rock Calling. Whilst it is hard to measure the impact that a weekend-long event has on a quarter’s RAJAR, we [...]

Paul Carolan – Moving on Up! By Chris Goldson

On the back of what was a fantastic week for us commercially, I wanted to share some sadder news… that we’ll soon be saying farewell to a much-loved member of our family. After long debate with the devil and angel on his shoulders, Paul Carolan has accepted a senior new role in the outdoor media [...]