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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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Keep An Eye on the FT
Anyone with any sense in publishing will be watching very carefully what the FT is doing. They’ve decided to forgo platform-specific apps, sold through app-stores, and instead produce a compelling, HTML5 compliant mobile-oriented website. OK – they’re not actually dumping their apps. But they are actively trying to persuade their readers to go direct. And…
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iCloud Cuckoo Land*
As regular readers will know, I’m a frustrated iTunes user. So what should I make of Apple’s announcements yesterday – in particular those associated with iCloud? I tend to still buy quite a lot of music on CD, if for no other reason than you get nice album covers and booklets to look at. It’s…
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RAJAR Adopting Digital
Over at the Onegoldensquare blog, I’ve written about what RAJAR is doing to upgrade its methodology and include a proportion of respondents completing their RAJAR diaries online. I should point out that I sit on the RAJAR Technical Management Group who implemented this, so I’m generally speaking in favour of its introduction! You can read…
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Television Bits and Pieces
Starting tonight, ITV1 is stripping its latest drama, Injustice, over five nights at 9pm. I still believe that this is a pretty stupid way of scheduling a drama, unless it’s so far superior to everything we usually see that it really is a special event. But that’s never the case, and although I’ve yet to…
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Senna
Last weekend I watched the Monaco Grand Prix. I wasn’t really planning to, and was going to go out, but I got caught up in it. Although I find the constant rule change over refueling or not refuelling tiresome, and the introduction of DRS seems like using some kind of turbo-boost in a video game,…
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“Crisis? What Crisis?”
Fifa is in a mess. I have no love for the organisation, yet I love football. I’ve read Andrew Jennings’ books, follow the reports, and have seen how the organisation essentially looks after itself with little real concern for the planet’s most popular sport. It’s a personal fiefdom for the likes of Sepp Blatter as…
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iTunes Woes – When Consolidate Breaks
This is a bit of a plea. Any solutions welcome… I have a big iTunes library. It’s something like 250GB because I keep certain old podcasts, have lots of music (ripped at high bit-rates), quite a few audiobooks (also in high quality) and now have a few films (mainly from “triple play” DVD/BluRay/digital sets). Anyway…
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Elbow at St Paul’s Cathedral
Last night Elbow played an exclusive set for Absolute Radio in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral – the first time that a rock band has ever performed there. It looked and sounded stunning. Watch an interview here and listen to the set on-air on 5 June. Looking down through the grate in the main…
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Rain
It was very wet today.
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Why I’m Not Going To The Cinemas As Much As I Once Did
Cinema has always been a media that has felt under threat. Radio, television, video, DVD, BluRay, video games and so on, have all at one time or another been listed as being a reason that the medium is going to fail. And it’s true that it has adapted – or had to adapt – over…
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RAJAR Q1 2011 – A Little Thing
Last year BBC Four broadcast a wonderful one-off programme called The Joy of Stats. It featured Professor Hans Rosling who’s talks at places like TED have made him extremely popular and watchable. In particular he’s been employing a type of motion chart that’s really useful for observing multiple pieces of data over long periods of…
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Book News
Two interesting developments in the book world in the last 24 hours: Waterstones has been sold by HMV; and Amazon says it’s selling more Kindle books that Hardback and Paperback titles Waterstones has been sold by the slightly ailing HMV group for £53m to Alexander Mamut’s A&NN Group, and James Daunt (he of Daunt Books…
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