Nearly £5bn in radio revenue and 170m spots have been traded through J-ET. Here, Raymond Snoddy charts the history of one of adland’s best collaborative success stories.
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Reporting back from the International Broadcasting Convention, Raymond Snoddy examines the latest trends – from VR and Voice UI, to the meteoric growth of mobile video and the rise of e-sports.
As Richard Desmond looks to sell the Express titles to Trinity Mirror, Raymond Snoddy examines what the deal will mean for the billionaire businessman and the struggling newspaper industry he’s ready to leave behind.
Billionaire tech evangelists with bold visions of the future want to change the way we consume media. Raymond Snoddy examines some of the potentially disruptive technologies heading our way.
As Rupert Murdoch takes right-wing US channel Fox News off the air in the UK after 15 years, Raymond Snoddy asks: why now?
Will Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off – with advertising revenue boosted by sponsorship – become a commercial and ratings success? Raymond Snoddy rates its chances.
For the first time there are realistic chances that the £11.7bn Murdoch bid for all of Sky will not go ahead – or at the very least be mired in further delays amid intensifying political controversy.
It is now only a matter of time before the likes of Amazon and Facebook start turning up with their giant chequebooks to compete for the rights to the world’s top sports.
The media bone yard is littered with the corpses of well-meaning attempts to launch more high-minded journalism, writes Raymond Snoddy – maybe it’s time for something to finally stick around…
As it cuts its losses by a third, Raymond Snoddy argues that, to a considerable extent, the Guardian should be viewed as a bellwether of the national newspaper industry.