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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 [...]
Changes at Talking Voices
We’re pleased to be able to make several announcements at once regarding the future of the company.
Brian Greene and Sinéad Murnane from doop in Dublin, have been making a great success of Talking Voices Ireland. Both join the board of Directors.
Michael Franklin, formerly of TalkSPORT and The Wireless Group joins the board as Financial Director [...]
Rob da Bank in the Independent
Nice article in today’s Independent newspaper about Rob da Bank and the Sunday Best Podcast.
Radio Academy Podcast: Future of Radio 2
Continuation of the Radio Academy event, January 15th 2007, including questions from the floor.
Radio Academy Podcast: Future of Radio
On 15th January in London, UK, Radio Academy Director Trevor Dann hosted a seminal event about podcasting.
The panel included Nathalie Schwarz from Channel 4, Matt Wells, Head of Audio from Guardian Unlimited, Sarah Prag from the BBC, and noted independent radio / podcast producers Hermeet Chadha and Karen Pearson. The session covered many issues around [...]
The Guardian Uses Seesmic In US Election Coverage
UK newspaper The Guardian has been using the Seesmic “video conversation” website (still in “pre-alpha” mode, and not yet public) to canvas opinion and guage reaction to the US Elections, with some very interesting use of online video via this brand new service.
Click to read / watch / listen.
Talking Voices Video Showreel
We have a new video showreel online, demonstrating our online video production work. Online video is being commissioned much more frequently these days than when we first started Talking Voices. As 2008 begins, audio podcast production remains the majority of our production work. We expect to be producing more genuinely new media formats including video, [...]
The Cambridge Radio Festival
Talking Voices’ Dean Whitbread, BBC’s Nick Reynolds and Wiggly Wigglers’ Heather Gorringe [left to right] at the Cambridge Radio Festival earlier today, where Dean, Heather and Jemima Kiss from The Guardian newspaper, took part in a session on podcasting, hosted by Rory Cellan-Jones. Picture is by Rory and appears in his Facebook series from the [...]
Dame Shirley Bassey’s Diamond-Encrusted Boots
Paul Carey, Talking Voices PR expert, appeared recently in PR Week. Paul works for Dame Shirley Bassey and is responsible for the whole diamond-encrusted boots idea, securing much press coverage. Paul attended the Glastonbury Festival with Dame Shirley, where she put on a stunning performance.
