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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 [...]


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.

 
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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 [...]

 
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Conference Podcasting - Where IT and Great Minds Meet

Brian Greene, Talking Voices’ podcasting, blogging and social media consultant in Ireland, was recently interviewed for the Irish Independent Newspaper speaking about the uses of podcasting in conferences and how the conference scene is changing.
“The recording and on-demand broadcasting of audio, is not just for those who can’t make it on the day”, he explains. [...]


Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast is Critic’s Choice for the Independent

Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best Podcast appeared as Critic’s Choice in yesterday’s Independent newspaper.
Rob’s twice-monthly, 30 minute podcast is described as ‘an insight into the eclectic world of Rob da Bank, the Radio 1 DJ and Sunday Best supremo’. Catch up on the Bestival with live tracks from XX Teens, Candie Payne [...]