The playlist is out now.
Fun – We Are Young
This has now gone supernova in the States – the first ‘rock’ song to top the American Billboard chart since Coldplay’s ‘Viva La Vida’ in 2008. The band are from New York City and have just released their 2nd album ‘Some Nights’.
All The Young – The Horizon
The Stoke 4-piece prepare for the release of their debut album (2nd April) with this new single, out next week.
The Role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Absolute Radio Technology department for a ‘Technology Specialist’ to join the most innovative and forward thinking broadcast radio group in the UK.
Reporting to the Technology Manager, you will possess strong IT Desktop, Server and Network Infrastructure skills, ideally but not essentially gained from within a broadcast media environment. You’ll have the opportunity to cross-train and gain the skills required to support the broadcast platforms, systems and infrastructure required to run a modern national radio station. You will be involved in a mixture of active and desk-based project work. Along with the existing Technology team you will also share the telephone, email and desk side support for Absolute Radio staff. You will be responsible for managing assigned projects and involved in day-to-day operational and administrative IT/Broadcast tasks where required.
Essential skills:
Desirable/advantageous skills:
Experience:
If you would like to be considered please e-mail: caroline.hinton@absoluteradio.co.uk
Closing Date: 2nd April 2012
Absolute Radio is committed to equality of opportunity for all. Please indicate your disability on your application. This information is required so that all who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the position will be invited for interview.
In February 35,000 brand new in-stream enabled Absolute Radio accounts were created contributing to a total of 753,000 new accounts to date. This is in addition to the original 567,000 Legacy user accounts already in existence. Following the introduction of in-stream in June 2011 an extra total of 186,000 new accounts equipped with in-stream advertising capabilities have been added. Our COO Clive Dickens spoke about how ‘Data Is Transforming Radio’ in a recent article in the Guardian. He explains how Absolute Radio has introduced new technology to offer our audience and free account holders higher quality audio along with less, but more relevant, audio advertising using our in-stream initiative.
Absolute Radio continues to pioneer the radio app market. On December 19th 2011 we launched our 6th Generation player apps with the inclusion of the in-stream service for Absolute Radio, Absolute Radio 60s, Absolute Radio 70s, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s, Absolute Radio 00s, Absolute Classic Rock and Absolute Radio extra encouraging a record influx of new installs. In February app usage continued to thrive with 306,000 uniques generating 2.08m sessions across the network. The player app uniques accrued 220,000 in February accounting for 72% of the total.
Social media continues to be an area of growth in engagement for the Absolute Radio brand. In February total Facebook Likes were up to 171,000 (up 6%) with Absolute Radio up 3% to 77,000 Likes. Combined Network Twitter following was up 13% to 70,000 with Absolute Radio up 23% to 27,000, driven largely by the #nowplaying ‘Faces For Radio’ promoted trend campaign in February. This had a positive knock on effect in terms of engagement with combined Facebook ‘Talking About’ numbers up 39% to 21,800 with the Absolute 80s page almost doubling – up 95% to 7,700. Absolute Radio’s videos on YouTube generated a total of 575,000 views in February.
Unprompted awareness of the Absolute Radio brand (Harris Interactive UK) held steady at a record 7.8% while prompted increased 0.8 of a point to a record 38%.
Absolute Radio releases this monthly information to provide greater accountability for commercial partners. Monthly figures for the network are available from the One Golden Square blog
http://onegoldensquare.com/stats/
Absolute Radio is working hard across the industry to provide consistent figures for commercial clients. The statistics are gathered using data from streams in a variety of formats with actual listening data collected from multiple computers/browser sessions or internet radio devices. Data is also collected from cookies removed from PCs.
Absolute Radio and Hard Rock Cafe have today announced that, in support of The Prince’s Trust, Hard-Fi will be the latest act to grace the stage at London’s iconic Hard Rock Cafe.
The number one album selling British band, known for their anthemic tunes like Living for the Weekend, will be performing a live session on Tuesday 27th March at the venue, which allows fans to get up close and personal with major
recording artists.
Hard-Fi are established friends of Absolute Radio having headlined at Brekfest which was a music festival at a listener’s house last year, so we’re thrilled to be working with the band again.
The Hard Rock Cafe London, who celebrated their 40th anniversary last year, will host the exclusive gig.
Tickets can be won by tuning into Absolute Radio, or visiting www.absoluteradio.co.uk.
A further 20 complimentary tickets will be available by visiting www.facebook.com/thebackroomlondon and ‘liking’ the post relating to the Hard-Fi gig and leaving a comment on the post.
The session is being played in support of The Prince’s Trust, which has helped over 17,000 young people through football since 1997, working with over 65 Premier League and Football League Clubs to deliver a range of programmes that have helped three in four young people in to work, training or education.
Highlights from the gig will be played out on 15th April on the Sunday Night Music Club on Absolute Radio.
A video of the session will also be available to watch online at www.absoluteradio.co.uk
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