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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 [...]
Podcasting, Rights and Music
Saturday March 29th 2008 at the Guardian newspaper, London, UK, in a seminar entitled Podcasting, Rights and Music the UK Podcasters Association hosted a seminar highlighting both the impact of legislation upon podcasters and media producers, and also outlining an established legal framework for fully licensed music podcasting.
Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group lead [...]
UKPA Meets ORG at Guardian March 29th 2008
UKPA is hosting a seminar on rights with the Open Rights Group at the Guardian, Farringdon, London, Saturday March 29th 2pm - 5pm.
Becky Hogge and Matt Wells (heads of ORG and Guardian Audio respectively) will be there, as well as representatives from MCPS-PRS and AIM (Association of Independent Music).
ORG will discuss how the EU AVMS [...]
Radio Academy Podcast: Future of Radio 2
Continuation of the Radio Academy event, January 15th 2007, including questions from the floor.
UKPA and GCap PR
GCap Media, the name behind Capital Radio, Classic FM, and the XFM Networks, has become the first ‘traditional’ UK broadcaster to join the UK Podcasters Association (UKPA). Started in April 2006, the UKPA is a non-profit organisation set up to protect both members’ rights and promote podcasting.
UKPA Chairman Dean Whitbread pointed out that “this is [...]
BBC Pods and Blogs
Good to see that the pre-eminent radio magazine programme covering social media, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs, has finally gained its own podcast - and extra-pleased that the editors used the introduction provided by Talking Voices’ Dean Whitbread, who is credited BBC-style in his role as member of the UK Podcasters Association.
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New Media Age; Podcast producers win licence to include full music tracks
The UKPA has agreed a deal with AIM which gives UKPA members a preferential rate on their podcast licence. This allows broadcasters, publishers and brands producing podcasts to feature any of the 30,000 tracks available under the AIM licence.
All tracks are no-DRM and are full length. Read more.
Talking Voices Podcast #6
We produced and helped to promote a compilation selection of the best of British podcasting, Podcast Tasters, delivered on that most conventional of media, an audio CD, at the Internet World Expo, Earl’s Court today.
Jamie Riddell’s well received Web 2.0 keynote speech covered podcasting, social bookmarks, UGC, CRM, Second Life and Twitter.
What I really like [...]
BECTU: Future Distribution
Dean spoke last night at the BECTU: Future Distribution event.
BECTU is the Broadcasting, Entertainment and Cinematograph and Theatre Union.
Speeches covered various topics including video content for mobile phones, digital distribution of films and of course podcasting.
Listen to Dean’s speech:
Sony Radio Awards: Now With Added Podcast
The Sony Radio Awards for 2007 will include a category for podcasts and internet programs. As part of the UK Podcasters Association, we pushed for this and so we are dead chuffed. Now it’s just a question of which of our podcasts to enter…
