Audioboo makes it to the mainstream
Posted on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 at 10:58pm. #
For some reason, my normal wake-up call from LBC 97.3 was changed this morning to a wake-up from BBC Radio 1.
My friend Chris Moyles was waking up Britain in a splendid way as usual, playing some odd music I’d not heard before, and introducing himself as “Hello, I’m Chris Moyles, the really nasty bloke you’ve read about in the papers except I’m quite nice really”.
And then, he started talking about Audioboo. It seems that he’s discovered Tony Blackburn’s AudioBoos, and had rather a lot of fun playing some of them. And he’s Audiobooing himself.
I’ve been talking about Audioboo in presentations for some time now – in the recent Media Guardian conference, Radio Reborn, I played a bunch of radio executives a splendid bit of audio from it – and I suggested that letting your listeners generate great audio will really transform your radio station (far more than texts or emails ever will).
I’m delighted that Chris has discovered AudioBoo; and also delighted that Tony Blackburn is having a bit of fun with it and leaving Chris some gags. I believe that any iPhone radio app should have AudioBoo built-in – so I can listen to my favourite radio station, and contribute to it, in an easy, radio-friendly way.
What would be really good is to now hear more from his listeners. Although probably not this listener, who’s rather less impressed. And probably not my own boos, either.
Photo, to accompany this AudioBoo, from Gwyn Fisher. Used under licence – thanks!




You’re welcome to the photos. Thanks for the heads up :)