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Talking Voices Partners with You and Eye Films
Talking Voices is pleased to have established new partnerships and connections in 2009. The first of these to be announced is You and Eye Films, which has been set up by documentary film maker Rani Khanna.
London-based French/Indian Rani directed MUSIC BY…GABRIEL YARED, an intimate 52 minute portrait of the Oscar-winning film composer’s collaboration with [...]
Blipathon – 24 Hours of Social Radio for the Children of Gaza
Brian Greene from TalkingVoices.ie leads hundreds of online DJs in Blipathon, a 24 hour fund-raiser for the children of Gaza.
NHS Alcohol Units Awareness Campaign
Small Pictures completed this short video for Forsters agency which was delivered as a downloadable video podcast, streaming flash and DVD, for NHS Southampton Alcohol Units Awareness Week.
At LeWeb, Paris
Explaining Seesmic to People Who Ask
Talking Voices Embraces Video
Talking Voices is expanding its operations in video podcasting by partnering with Small Pictures.
Small Pictures, run by Talking Voices founder Dean Whitbread, has this month has achieved spectacular success of over 1m views in three weeks with John Cleese on Sarah Palin (below). Small Pictures has a channel on Vimeo.
Ofcom Seeks Views On AVMS Directive
The Government’s proposals for implementing the Audiovisual Media Services Directive in the UK have just been published.
The consultation focuses on three specific issues which are expected to require legislation. These are ‘co-regulating’ video-on-demand services; product placement; and, regulating satellite TV channels from outside the EU which uplink from the UK.
This EU Directive is aimed at [...]
ADM Releases First Podcasting Standard
Washington, DC - July 28, 2008 — The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), established to focus on best practices for monetizing consumer-downloaded content, has announced the release of its first ad unit standards and audience measurement guidelines for industry compliance. The Download Measurement Guidelines and Advertising Unit Standards are available now at http://www.downloadablemedia.org.
The first of its [...]
Podcasts Boost Radio Audiences, Says UK Industry Researcher
All of the RAJAR-commissioned data reported in this Guardian article is pretty good news for the humble podcast, with one exception: “Although podcasts were popular with listeners, media organisations have found difficulty turning them into significant moneyspinners”.
Agreed – media organisations, with top-down attitudes and old-media thinking continue to invest in podcasting as part of their [...]
BECTU at BAFTA
Dean Whitbread from Talking Voices spoke today as part of the Digital Futures panel for BECTU’s Freelancers’ Fair.
Here’s an embedded player which uses content from Phreadz (a threaded multi-media social network currently in closed beta) and Qik (live mobile streaming) which contains the presentation from two different angles – plus replies to the thread as [...]
Creative Choices Campaign Launches
We’re very pleased that our carefully assembled team of “creative ambassadors” has now started working as advocates for an excellent new UK government initiative supporting our creative industries – Creative Choices.
Christian Payne has produced some excellent responses using multiple channels including Seesmic, Qik, Twitter and Skitch – this last of which was a really clever [...]
