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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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Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast
Here’s a turn up for the books – me talking about something on the radio that you have more than one day to listen to! Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast is an excellent play based around the making of Witchfinder General in 1967. If you’ve never seen Witchfinder General, then…
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Radio Times 5 March 2010
The weekend’s nearly here, and I’ve put this up early so you can plan your Friday’s viewing. This time around, I’ve used the medium of multi-coloured Post-It notes! As ever, best viewed large. PS These images on Flickr seem to get far more views than anything else I put up. So please do comment here…
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Daily Star: Britain’s Most “Successful” Newspaper?
I was unfortunate enough to catch a TV advert for the Daily Star last night. I think it must have been after the football which I saw a few minutes of. I can’t imagine another programme I might have been watching which the Daily Star might want to target me in. At least it wasn’t…
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Alice
As everyone looks forward to the new Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland, and I wonder whether I can be bothered to see it in 3D, the BFI has put its newly restored version of the first ever version of Alice on YouTube. Running at just under ten minutes, it’s a remarkable document dating…
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Cashing Gold
How badly do minor celebrities need the cash? Quite badly if the Dale Winton Cash My Gold ad is to be believed. It’s mercilessly ripped apart in Saturday’s Guardian Guide. Ironically, when I viewed this piece online, the Google ads below served three gold-cashing services up including Cash My Gold itself. £150 for a laptop…
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Jonny Greenwood – Doghouse
(This photo has nothing to do with the concert, but I took it down the road from the BBC’s Maida Vale studios). I’d never been to the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. But this evening I was off to them to see the BBC Concert Orchestra playing the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s new piece as…
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Social Media and 6 Music
What’s been most interesting so far, following the news that the BBC might be shutting down, has been the reaction in the “Twittersphere” and online in general. There were lots of callers on Victoria Derbyshire’s programme this morning, with Martin Kelner and John Myers also making appearances (there’s feedback throughout, but Kelner and Myers are…
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Murder in Samarkind
Again, I’m going to recommend something that’s just about to drop off the iPlayer. But if you have 90 minutes free before tomorrow afternoon, you could do a great deal worse than listen to David Hare’s terrific adaptation of Craig Murray’s memoir. Murray, you will recall, was “our man in Tashkent” – British Ambassador to…
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BBC Closing Radio Services?
Friday’s Times is reporting that BBC 6Music and the Asian Network are to be closed under the BBC’s major strategic review. As well as this, there’s likely to be cuts to other expenditure particularly on the web as well as cuts to imported programming, BBC Blast, BBC Switch, and sports expenditure. If this proves to…
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Science on Trial
If you’re quick, there’s still a chance to hear last week’s Radio 4 programme Science on Trial. With enormous topicality, it examined some of the very concerning legal cases that have been brought in British courts surrounding use of libel laws to restrict scientific debate, and effectively silence some of those who otherwise promote remedies…
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Amy MacDonald
Amy MacDonald played a set in London’s Hard Rock Café for Absolute Radio earlier this evening. The set, promoting a new album, was great and should be going out on-air next Monday. In the meantime, even though I wasn’t right at the front, I’m pretty happy with some of the photos I took. As well…
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Why Don’t We Get The BAFTAs Live?
I know that the easy answers are that: 1. the show runs for at least three hours and viewers would get bored, or 2. we can’t trust celebrities not to swear and there’s a suspcision that 3. but then the after-parties wouldn’t start until post 11pm and that would be terrible. But as things stand…
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