I have it on good authority that Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, recently prepared to present a ‘TV is Dead’ presentation at a major international conference, only to be given a last minute jolt when he was told that many of the assumptions he had made in his speech were completely at odds with the accepted data.
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James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says today’s RAJAR release continues to show a slow but steady increase in take-up of digital radio. If there is a way to accelerate this, it’s good for listeners and broadcasters alike – but it is also prudent to remain patient…
Alex Franks, director at Blyk, looks at location based marketing and the huge potential this has to marketers if used intelligently.
Neil Sharman, head of research and analysis, Telegraph Media Group, says that in tough times ad-land needs a monument of hope. He unveils the kind of statue he has in mind…
Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4S and what is next for Apple…
Chris Worrell, European research manager at Specific Media, fears that the relentless obsession with numbers has drowned out creative inspiration in the digital world. Has chasing the click allowed us to lose sight of the very purpose of advertising?
At the RTS’ Cambridge Convention last week, there was an exhortation from Fru Hazlitt of ITV to the advertising community to get creative with TV airtime…
Jim Marshall says that while the Arab Spring seemed to be a righteous uprising, aided and abetted by a liberating social media network, events at home (in the riots and the hacking scandal) saw a potentially more unsavoury side to the use of some media channels… not so much an Arab Spring as an English Rusty Nail!
Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.
The latest ABC release for the regional newspaper market is very illuminating – not for the continued percentage declines in newspapers sold, which continues unabated, but for the online usage stats.