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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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ITV
Far too much has been written about Kerry Katona and her behaviour on This Morning a couple of days ago. I can’t be bothered to go into it, and if she is ill, I’m not about to link to YouTube clips of her being ill on national television. That’s despite whatever I might think about…
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Early Morning Sun
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Freeview News
It’s been an interesting week or so for Digital Terrestrial Television in the UK – or Freeview as it’s better known. SDN has somehow been able to squeeze a little extra space out of the platform and put another channel up for auction, and it was won by Discovery. Before everyone gets too excited thinking…
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Rankin and Oxfam
The Today Programme website has a great audio slideshow from photographer Rankin who’s been out to a camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Oxfam to photograph some of the people who live there. There are some fabulous photos which have been taken in a very different way to how you’d normally see such…
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This Is War! Robert Capa At Work
There’s a fabulous new exhibition of the work of celebrated war photographer Robert Capa currently on display at The Barbican. It features, in detail, several key events that Capa covered from the Spanish Civil War through D-Day to the end of the war. Alongside Capa’s work, we also have that of his partner, Gerda Taro,…
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When Will We Take TV Criticism Seriously?
While many papers like the Daily Mail are getting rid of their TV critics, despite the fact that vast parts of their paper revolves around the medium, others provide a fuller service, but I begin to wonder why they bother. My paper of choice is The Guardian. And they employ one of the finest television…
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CNN Graphs
In his Guardian column today, Charlie Brooker says that he watched the third presidential debate live on CNN because they had a fancy graph along the bottom showing what some undecided voters thought about what the candidates were saying as they said it. Now I haven’t yet seen the third debate. It’s still on my…
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Recent Films
I must admit that I’ve been pretty poor at writing about films of late, and you might think it was because I hadn’t seen any. To be honest, I haven’t been to the cinema this year as frequently as I have in the past and it’s not solely because the experience is so dreadful these…
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Peter Kay’s X-Factor Pastiche
[I must admit that this is a revised version of some comments I already posted on a Guardian blog] Peter Kay is someone I’ve observed more from afar than anything. I’ve never watched Phoenix Nights (shoot me now), and I’ve only caught bits of his various live routines. I enjoyed the Amarillo video enough, but…
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Channel 4 Radio
So finally, on Friday, came the news that Channel 4 was pulling the plug on its radio operation. Let’s revisit a little history. Commercial Radio has been broadcast nationally in UK on Digital One since 2002. But of late, the platform has struggled to be filled with the ten or so services it needs to…
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Statuephilia at The British Museum
Third time lucky – today I finally made it into the Hadrian exhibition. When I’d previously popped in to try to see it, I’d gone on Saturday afternoons when all the tickets for the day had already been sold. I tried to book online for today, but no luck, so I pitched up early to…
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Photos Of Kids
Now here’s a subject that could leave me in all sorts of trouble, because some may have some very strong feelings about it, but it’s prompted by something I heard today. I was in London, sitting in the sun reading the paper. Nearby a father was playing with his son. He was using DSLR and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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