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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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Arcadia
I first saw Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia in 1993 at the Theatre Royal Bath, when the play was touring following its premiere at the National Theatre in London. It was a joy to watch and I instantly fell in love with it. I rushed out to buy the text. It was smart, and literate. The dialogue…
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Digital Britain: 2015 – First Thoughts on Radio
It’s finally here – The Digital Britain report. It’s Lord Stephen Carter’s magnum opus, before he ups and offs. The headlines are sure to be the levy charged on fixed lines to fund broadband, encouraging and enabling the wider take-up of broadband, and even the piracy issue. What happens to BBC licence fee money is…
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Radio Times – 16 June 2009
Unsure what to see on TV tonight? Let my notes on top of today’s Radio Times guide you through the major channels. As always, this is best viewed very large to read my scribbles.
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Lightning
Glorious sunshine at lunchtime. Electrical storms by 7pm.
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Email Marketing
This is easily a topic for a book, but I shall limit this to a short rant about Epson. In early January this year I bought a new printer – an Epson. It was nice printer, not massively overpriced, but a good quality photo printer with the widely priased Claria ink system. During installation and…
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Massive £985,000 Sale!
A local bed comapny has a massive sale on. But they seem to have run the numbers, and although it might have been nice to have had a £1 million sale, it seems they ended up just a little short. So it’s only a £985,000 sale! (Oh, and they’ve decided that since they’re giving away…
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Free To Air Listed Events Review
The DCMS has for the last couple of months been conducting a review into the listed events – those events that must be covered live on free-to-air television – Group A Events. That’s event like the Olympics, the World Cup and so on. It also includes events to which highlights must be made available on…
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iPhone Fun And Games
I’m not quite sure I understand all the annoyance at the moment over the new iPhone. As I see it, things go like this: * November 2007 – Apple and O2 release the iPhone in the UK and sell 18 month contracts. * July 2008 – Apple and O2 release the 3G version of the…
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ITV Multichannels Going Subscription Only?
According to a report in Media Guardian, ITV has been considering taking its channels from free to view to subscription only. The reasoning is that despite losing out in terms of viewers and their associated advertising revenue, there’d be enough gains to be made in getting a small share of the Sky revenue to make…
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Deja Vu
I know Channel 4 is strapped for cash, but this is ridiculous. On Sunday 24th May at 18:20 – a week ago – C4 showed Night at the Museum, the comedy film starring Ben Stiller. This was the film’s terrestrial premiere, and was timed for the weekend of the opening of the sequel Night at…
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Dreadful Dreadful Television
The most recent issue of The Word magazine, and most recent edition of their podcast both discuss “Monkey Tennis” – the phenomenon best illustrated by the Alan Partridge clip where he desperately attempts to win a commission from a BBC controller: Jump to 4:55 for the really good stuff – although it’s all excellent. In…
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Fun Bits Of Audio
Here are a couple of nice pieces of audio from recent programmes. The first comes courtesy of Axegrinder at Press Gazette, and considers what those scary Yorkshire folk have been up to: Bearing in mind that BBC Radio Five Live is shortly to move to Manchester, not with entirely unanimous support of everyone who works…
Hadrian’s Wall
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