A jaunt around the web, May 23
Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 10:20pm. #
iHeartRadio: One Million Downloads, and Counting! [Radio 2020]
The main piece of news from this is that Clear Channel reckon that their iPhone app accounts for 15% of all radio listening (which I’m not entirely sure I believe, but it’s a great figure if accurate).
Communication and media dissertation | Adam Atkinson communication design artist
Adam quotes me giving an apparently inaccurate quote in Revolution magazine in January. In fact, the 13% of live radio listening I mention is entirely attributed to DAB, while total non-analogue radio is over 20%. Not that it harms the story, of course.
Introducing Rich Snippets [Official Google Webmaster Central Blog]
Google introduce RDFa and microformats. Media UK is now full of microformat information, which hopefully will help Uncle Google look at the website. (And since @perreau showed me the rather lovely Analytics App for the iPhone, I’m rather addicted to checking my figures every day.)
Digital Radio Listening [TechStarter]
“James is a radio activist and serious blogger, and also owner of the incredible rich media resource: MediaUK.com” – I’ve not been called a ‘radio activist’ before, but I like it, so thank you, Sacha. If you don’t mind, I might nick that as a job description.
Ricky Gervais podcasts to become cartoon series on US channel HBO [guardian.co.uk]
A radio show (well, an audio podcast) becomes… a TV show! Hurray! And no cameras in sight. How splendid.
Suspension of 6music feedback topic [BBC 6music]
Because so many people hate George Lamb, he’s managed to close an entire feedback topic. The perils of allowing discussion about your talent – particularly when your talent is hated by most of the audience of the radio station. Not sure whether I’m allowed to give my opinion about George Lamb, so I won’t let slip. Anyway, I’m trying to keep any negative thoughts out of this blog, particularly about DJs who won’t just shut up and play some reco… oops
The return of the transistor radio [MediaBizTech]
“I can’t say I listen to the [FM] radio on my Nokia that much. Apart from anything, the audio’s pretty terrible and I’m used to crystal clear digital sound [from MP3s] nowadays.” A point nobody should forget, from Robert Freeman’s rather excellent blog.
ComScore: UK News Sites Still Popular Overseas, FT.com Traffic Down [paidContent:UK]
Interesting analysis of newspaper site traffic, including: “Most UK newspaper traffic still comes from overseas: comScore found the the biggest foreign-to-domestic imbalance during March was at Mail Online, which received 73 percent of its audience from overseas while 67 percent of internationally-minded FT.com’s traffic is from abroad.” – of course, overseas traffic is much harder for a UK company to monetise, as well.
UK: Radio Listenership Soars with New Tech [Radio 2020]
“You see, radio listenership is up in the UK. Way up. Try more than 90% of all UK adults, 45.8 million people, tuned in each week. I’m doing the Riverdance.” Some good copy from George Williams, even though Riverdance is a) shite, and b) from Ireland.
Six ways to get that promos gig [Earshot]
My colleague and friend Steve Martin from BBC World Service with some sage advice for those working in radio production. Warning: contains bollocks-speak, notably: “Relative adjacencies”. Mind, it’s a nice concept. I might nick the bollocks-speak for myself.
Photo: mine, and nothing to do with expenses.
