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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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Radio Times 11 October 2008
These seem to be popular, so I might attempt one a week or so as the mood takes me. Best viewed large (or even original). Think of them as an ongoing comment on the state of British TV.
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TV Tonight
Here’s me defacing a copy of this week’s Radio Times showing today’s TV. It’s part of a very irregular series. Best viewed large.
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TV Programme Making By Rote
Word magazine’s website has a great list of things that people find annoying – or the dumbest things in entertainment. It’s a great list, and you can’t help but nod as contributors add more and more. Someone halfway down the list mentions half-hour TV programmes that throw-forward to the second 15 minutes just before the…
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Aussies Take The Leads
Fringe is Sky’s big new import, and one of the first US shows of the new season to get the full order of shows commissioned. But it’s basically The X-Files isn’t it? Were it not for a bit of Googling, I’d have even thought that it was shot in Vancouver like early series of that…
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The State of the Product Placement Nation
A cracking article from New York magazine on product placement and it’s implications. Well worth a read.
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Abbey Road Studios
We made a video for work the other day at Abbey Road studios. I thought I’d share it here too:
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Virgin Radio 1993-2008 Mosaic
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Ed Reardon Returns
Right – lots of good news on the Ed Reardon front. First of all, this coming Monday (6th October) sees the return of Ed Reardon with a new series on Radio 4 at 11.30am. I would imagine that we’ve got another six epsiodes in this new series. Let’s hope so anyway. So set your alarms,…
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The Media Festival
Throughout the year, there’s a never ending series of conferences around the country on all sorts of subjects. It’s not surprising as they make lots of money. Fees from delegates easily pay for the conference room facilities and a buffet lunch leaving lots of cash in pure profit. Speakers aren’t usually paid with perhaps only…
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Shoddy Google Ads
There really are some poor Google Ads kicking about at the moment, and the worst of them seem to be appearing in Gmail (for me at least). Here’s the latest example of something that’s thoroughly misrepresentative on many levels. “Eastenders is Axed”? No it’s not. The link is to a strange site called “just-the-issues.com/eastenders”. If…
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Audio To Text
Over the last few years, I’ve tried to look at lots of different ways to turn audio into text – ideally cheaply or even freely. Working for a radio station, even one that largely plays out music, being able to search audio to find when a presenter said or mentioned something would be incredibly useful.…
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The Emmy Award Winning…
Sunday night in the US saw the Emmy Awards – theoretically, the most important American TV awards. Now their credibility is obviously nil since the best TV series to emerge from the US (and arguably the English speaking world) has had precisely two nominations in five years and no awards. That’s The Wire. It’s got…
Hadrian’s Wall
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