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Windows Phone 7 and Absolute Radio

The new Windows Phone 7 has now arrived in the UK.  At Absolute Radio we wanted you to be able to enjoy our stations on the new mobiles so we got our boffins in the One Golden Square labs team onto developing an app for this brand new platform.  A few hours later and we [...]

Why Are Revenues In September 2010 Up 20%? By Adrian Robinson

I’ll come back to September in a moment.  First though (it’s all related, bear with me) I wanted to mention that we have published our annual report for 2009 this week.  While you are welcome to read through it in full here, I thought it might be helpful to provide a bit of commentary around [...]

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 [...]

August Engagement Metrics

Absolute Radio’s on-demand listening continues to grow as the network served a total of 2,167,315 on-demand hours via IP connected devices – up 17,614 from July. This on-demand figure consists of all audio and video content available online through downloaded podcasts, audio clips, live sessions and videos both on Absolute Radio websites and third party [...]

Absolute Radio July Engagement Metrics

In July, The Absolute Radio Network (Absolute Radio, Absolute 80s, Absolute Classic Rock, Absolute Radio 90s and dabbl) served 11,093,352 million hours of compelling online content including live online streamed hours, live mobile streamed hours, downloaded on-demand audio and video. This is a massive 31% increase from June. The Absolute Radio Network streamed 8.9 million [...]