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How To Incentivise Your Audience to Skip Podcast Ads
If you publish a podcast, your podcast may well take advertising. And if it does take advertising, you probably want people to actually listen to the ads. Your audience listening to podcast ads increases the likelihood of products being sold, and therefore the advertiser coming back to buy more advertising. If your podcast doesn’t increase…
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Channel Four Shuffle
Media Guardian has details of a proposed new Channel Four service that’s supposedly going to appear on-air later this year. From what I can tell it’s a traditional linear channel – just one that gives multiple additional opportunities for viewers to catch Channel Four programmes at other times across the week. The odd thing is…
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From Gutenberg to Zuckerbeg
In 2012, I’m going to try to write a little more about books. I say this every year, but I am going to try! First up is John Naughton’s From Gutenberg to Zuckerbeg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet. This is a follow-up, of sorts, to A Brief History of the Future,…
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Redefining Radio
Because I was somewhat involved, I can’t really present an unbiased view of yesterday’s Redefining Radio conference presented by Absolute Radio at the Houses of Parliament (But I did think it was very good). So instead, let me link to all the videos from the morning, as well as some external reports generated from the…
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John Arlott – Cricket’s Radical Voice
You have just under two days to listen to the most recent Archive Hour on Radio 4 dealing with John Arlott’s political nature. As well as being famous for having one of those wonderful Test Match Special voices that I’d listen to when I was growing up, he was also a regular on programmes like…
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Mirror Box
These photos were made by placing a camera on self-timer in a “mirror box” built with mirrored tiles. All based on a very smart idea I saw on Photojojo and detailed at Digital Composting. The box that I built was built precisely to those specifications. I used 12″ square tiles I bought from Mirrorworld who…
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Boxsets
This week Boardwalk Empire season one came out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK this week. So anyone who doesn’t get Sky Atlantic is able to see what the fuss is about. But I was a little surprised to say the least. Wasn’t it already out? Here’s the thing, Sky Atlantic launched with the…
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Two Screen TV
At the end of Sherlock on Sunday I picked up my phone and pulled up Twitter to see what everyone had been saying about it. Since I’d watched it live, there was a lot of #sherlock activity. Amongst people I follow it was very popular. That’s not surprising – it’s excellent! But then I started…
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The Podcasting Challenge – Some More Thoughts
My piece on podcasting from yesterday (but the product of a long period of gestation) seems to have generated some interest, so I thought it was worth exploring a few of the issues people have mentioned to me in various environments following on from the post. Terminology We do need to be consistent across the…
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Christmas Television
Now Christmas is over*, it’s time to carry out an appraisal of the good and the bad over the period. Like many, I think that Sherlock was probably the best programme on over the Christmas/New Year period. It’s an incredibly smart take on Conan Doyle, and is a wonderful reinvention. The ninety minutes just flew…
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The Podcasting Challenge
Last month, the BBC announced that it had delivered its billionth podcast since it first started delivering downloads in 2007. Closer to home, Absolute Radio continues to deliver exceptional numbers of podcast, with programmes like
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Photo
As much as anything, this photo is purely to test out an upgrade of my blogging software. So move along. Nothing much to see here.
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Ridding Social Media of Pointlessness in 2012
In the last few days, we’ve seen a couple of storms in teacups. There was the BBC’s “Faces of 2011 – the women” (or “pandagate”), and then yet another Jeremy Clarkson faux pas. In the former, widely picked up on by social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and quickly followed up on by newspapers, we…
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