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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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Are You Detoxing?
Well don’t bother. Instead, just lead a healthy lifestyle (I know, I know: pot, kettle, black, etc.). The word “detox” really annoys me. It’s pretty meaningless in the sense that it’s most used. This morning, free newspaper Metro had a wraparound sponsored by Evian. They’re once again asking us to “Detox with Evian” which makes…
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Wasps v Harlequins
I was right down in the corner today watching Wasps beat Harlequins 24-18. To be honest, my lens is too slow for the high shutter speed you really need for rugby. Hence, even though there was a try right in the corner where I was sitting, the shots were blurred because I should have been…
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Radio Times 2 January 2009
Sorry – been a bit lapse with this. I had to take the opportunity to “do” the final day of the double Christmas edition. Best viewed large so you can read it.
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Books on TV
No – I’m not talking about next week’s adaption of The Diary of Anne Frank, but books and their authors on TV. There’s an interesting little discussion over at The Guardian about whether or not the Richard & Judy effect will continue with their new selection of titles now that they’re hidden away on Watch…
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Film Releases In January
It’s now January, and that means that the films you can see in the cinema are suddenly good. On the other hand, the releases will come and go so fast, that you probably won’t be able to see all them. I both understand and really don’t understand why the cinema industry treats films in this…
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Happy New Year
Listening to the New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna is my preferred way of dealing with any hangover. There’s something about The Blue Danube and The Radetzky March that’s intrinsically linked with the day. If you missed it, tune in tonight on BBC Four…
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Surviving Gaza
Wow. Channel 4 has an interesting and incredibly timely programme on next Monday. I assume it’ll detail how to survive on the Gaza Strip when you’re being bombed daily by the Israelis. Wait a minute… My mistake. It’s actually called “Surviving Gazza“, and is about the famously off-the-rails footballer. Of course this is scheduled after…
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Three Fun Articles To Read
Well one article and two blog posts really. First off, Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, writes at length about how the media is effectively now unable to examine things like whether corporations are avoiding tax legally. We know that the UK’s libel laws are absurd and encourage libel tourism (everything is effectively “published” in…
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Copyright Extension
In just four days, we could begin to see the first of Cliff Richard’s singles re-released without Richard himself either profiting or having any say over what’s released. That could happen, although as I write, I can’t see any forthcoming releases at Amazon. Indeed he’s recently released a celebratory 50 years anthology, and gave away…
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Happy Christmas
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Fears Grow For Doctor Who
As seen on a London Evening Standard billboard today. Perhaps they’ve had a preview of the Christmas special? They do know that he’s a fictional character don’t they?
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Voting Fun
If Strictly adopted the US voting system as I’d advocated, then it’s incredibly unlikely this weekend’s incident would have occurred. This isn’t, of course, important. Votes placed will still go to viewers’ favourite dancers. So everyone who’s saved the BBC or Ofcom’s phone numbers on speed dial to complain at the drop of a hat…
Hadrian’s Wall
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