Simon Andrews: If you ask your social media expert about the big successes you tend to get pretty standard answers about Twitter & Facebook. LinkedIn has never been very cool & its role seems to have been understated by many. Not any more…
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Raymond Snoddy: In a number of important respects Salford has been mishandled by BBC management but walk into MediaCity and you don’t have to be too imaginative to see a future production hub taking shape that could in time give London a run for its money.
Dean Wilson, UK managing director at Active International, on the radio in the 21st Century: The licence-fee bankrolled BBC still rules the airwaves, people have almost stopped buying vinyl and even their “forever” replacement CD’s are in decline, digital music is de-rigeur…
Neil Perkin, founder of Only Dead Fish, says the best content services of the future will be those that offer smart combinations of algorithmically generated recommendation, with a good measure of content curation, alongside a healthy dose of serendipity…
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Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive! (and a chair at this year’s Media Playground event), on People, Places, Physical and Promotion…
Arum Nixon, client investment director at MediaVest UK, says it’s no surprise that the radio industry is in a celebratory mood this morning…
Charlie Yeates, associate director, Investment Trading at MediaCom, says it will be interesting to see the impact that Radioplayer will have on digital listening in the future…
Mike Williamson, head of radio at Carat, on the latest RAJAR Q1 2011 results…
James Cridland says in a world of on-demand, video-with-everything, iThat and iThis, it’s easy to forget that while broadcast radio is not shiny or ‘new’, it is an established and successful part of the media landscape: indeed, one that according to today’s figures is getting more popular, not less…