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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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Cambridge to Shepreth
I went for a nice walk in Cambridgeshire yesterday, and here’s a map of where I went. View Cambridge to Shepreth Walk in a larger map There are a couple of sections towards the end that are a bit too much on the road to be honest. But it starts and finishes on a trainline…
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DAB in London
While browsing through my DAB set in London I came across this. What could it be?
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RAJAR Q2 2009
This morning saw the release of the latest RAJAR radio audience listening data. Cue lots of press releases from lots of radio stations (You can read about Absolute Radio’s audience here). I suspect that many industry watchers will be looking at the digital listening percentage. That shows that 21.1% of all radio listening is being…
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Good Customer Service
Back in the late nineties I had an Olympus 35mm point and shoot camera which I’d taken with me on holiday to Morocco. Sadly, it broke down during that trip, although I was at least able to pick up a disposable camera to meet the rest of my holiday needs. On returning to London I…
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The Observer
News emerged at the weekend that Guardian Media Group is said to be discussing the future of The Observer – one of the oldest newspapers in the world. One idea seems to be to turn it into a weekly news magazine – I assume in the style of Time, Newsweek or The Economist. That’d be…
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Selling Off Radio 1
So Ed Vaizey is talking about selling off Radio 1 again is he? Obviously this makes no sense at all – and does nothing to help commercial radio. I’ve said this before when Peter Bazalgette suggested something similar and again when Richard Eyre said the same thing. I won’t run through the same arguments in…
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Be Seeing You
I don’t know about you, but I’m quite excited by this. The Prisoner was an exceptional TV series and while remakes and reimaginings always concern me, this looks to be worthwhile. Of course this is an ITV co-production, but obviously this video isn’t to be found on itv.com (or if it is, neither I nor…
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David Cameron on Absolute Radio
This is a clip from an interview I was videoing this morning… (And at time of writing it’s the most popular video on the BBC News site. Even though I’m not remotely responsible for the content of the video, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was rather chuffed to have footage on…
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Radio Times 26 July 2009
If you don’t know what to watch tonight – let me help you. ITV4. 8.30pm. Watch Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish finish the 2009 Tour de France. However, I’ve also highlighted a few other programmes. As ever, you probably want to read a large version.
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(500) Days of Summer
(This picture is vaguely of summer, and has nothing to do with the film!) I got invited to a blogger’s screening of this film next week but couldn’t make it – so I saw a separate screening and I’m really glad I did. Superficially this is light-hearted romantic film, but it’s really not. A voiceover…
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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra
Next year, the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra is starting something of a residency at the Barbican and other venues in East London. It’ll happen for at least a couple of years in the run-up to the Olympics. All I can say is that on 1 October, when tickets go on sale, you should…
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Moon
Moon is a great little film – a debut from Duncan Jones (aka David Bowie’s son). It’s nice to see a proper science fiction film based on ideas rather than space ships shooting other space ships – or more likely, blowing up landmarks. Sam Rockwell is Sam Bell. He works in a base on the…
Hadrian’s Wall
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