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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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Lucia
I took some photos of Lucia yesterday in the London Swedish Church. You can see the rest of them here. The bloke next to me took some better ones.
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Safety First Investment
I love it when tube stations are being refurbished and old posters are uncovered before the new LCD panels go up in their place. Yesterday evening I saw this wonderful Abbey National poster from goodness knows when (it looks quite old to me even if the colours are quite vivid). I suspect that Abbey wouldn’t…
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Media Talk on The Guardian
Matt Wells had something of a moan this week about what he called an advert for DAB that he’d heard on the BBC this week. He saw it as a straight ad for BBC viewers and listeners to go out and buy a DAB digital radio. A couple of things Matt: The BBC did exactly…
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Changeling
J. Michael Straczynski is someone best known to me as the creator and driving force behind Babylon 5, a series that was almost certainly ahead of its time. Now comes Changeling, a superb new film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie. Straczynski dug up the story – infamous at the time – based…
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Recent TV Bits
So a few interesting things are going on in television at the moment. I’m going to come back to Kangaroo because I think it deserves a bit more detail. But I’m not exactly impressed by Five’s recent hiring of Richard Woolfe from Sky One. But then Dawn Airey herself fills me with dread a bit.…
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Televised Sport Update
Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided that it wouldn’t award the EBU the rights to the 2014 winter Olympics and the 2016 summer games. In the past the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has collectively bought the rights to the Olympics for the past fifty years. All the public service broadcasters chip in and…
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Southbank
Two a couple of great concerts in the Southbank Centre over the weekend. On Saturday it was John McCusker’s Under One Sky. McCusker has put together a fascinating group of performers of Scottish and English origin who together make some wonderful music. So on stage, alongside McCusker we had Julie Fowlis (who I saw a…
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James Whale on Talksport Verdict
Earlier this year, Talksport fired James Whale, their long-serving (and high rating) evening phone-in DJ after he made some comments which were seen to be in favour of Boris Johnson in the run-up to the London mayoral election. At the time, it was all a little unclear. Whale himself was vague in his accounts. Even…
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Photographic Exhibitions
Over on the BBC News website, they have an audio slideshow with Eamonn McCabe detailing what he’s found out in his Writer’s Room project. Over the last couple of years McCabe has been busily photographing the rooms in which novels are written. They’ve been published in the Guardian Review, and are now the subject of…
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A Point of View
You do listen to Clive James’ A Point of View don’t you? Go away and subscribe to the podcast immediately if you don’t!
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DAB/WiFi/SD Card Followup
A little while ago, I mentioned that I was seeking a DAB digital radio with recording facilities (ideally to SD card), and WiFi. You can buy a DAB/WiFi radio. And you can buy a DAB/SD radio. But you can’t buy one with all three. What a shame. But because new sets are always being designed,…
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More or Less Returns
More or Less has returned for a new run. Well worth subscribing to the podcast if you want to understand a little more how numbers really relate and their general misuse in the broader world. That probably doesn’t do a great deal to explain what the show’s about, but it’s well worth a listen –…
Hadrian’s Wall
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