James Cridland is Managing Director of media.info, and an Australia-based radio futurologist. He is a consultant, writer and public speaker who concentrates on the effect that new platforms and technology are having on the radio business. Find out more or subscribe at http://james.cridland.net
James Cridland’s articles:
- Radioplayer Car: How It Works <= deep tech detail
- Radio Is Rubbish At Marketing Itself – Except For This Station – my weekly column
United States
- One podcast app accepts advertising for podcasts. And the way that Overcast have done it is done really nicely. I think radio sales could learn from this approach.
- Interesting blog post showing why this person prefers Spotify to music radio – always good to learn from this stuff. Partially: “the concerts tab”, which seems eminently replicable. Also, a #lazybugglesheadline
- Why Podcasts Can’t Match the Power of Public Broadcasting – snooty piece, which is essentially saying “they’re not that big yet” (true).
- This track popped up on Spotify’s Discovery Weekly for me. The lyrics are probably as relevant now as they’ll ever be.
- Smart speakers – the new interactive radio that everyone wants…
- How Northwest Public Radio turned listeners into collaborators on content
- “Streaming Music Services, From Most Screwed to Least Screwed” – ha! /via Dirk Soetens
- Advalanche: YouTube highlights problems with digital advertising
- Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no access required (Wow.)
United Kingdom
- Moyes and the Media -Jobs for the Boys? Mick Ord on ‘that interview’ (though here’s where I’m quite proud that I have no idea about the interview in question, but I believe it’s a thing in the UK)
- Radioplayer Car: How It Works <= deep tech detail
- Great learnings from Gav Richards about distributed working teams.
- In case anyone wants a RadioVIS STOMP server written in node.js, then /via Nicholas Humfrey and BBC here’s one. Thanks for opening this.
- Good choice for Magic breakfast – big star Ronan Keating and the excellent Harriet Scott. Bauer appear to be getting their stuff together at breakfast, just as Capital appears to be falling to bits. (Or are they?)
- Radio Is Expected to Surpass Newspapers in Local Ad Revenue by 2021 – a modern media doing really well, so thanks, Ad Week, for reaching into the folder marked #lazyantiqueradiopictures to illustrate it
- BBC Radio 3 Concert Sound – they’re streaming in FLAC. (Firefox only). (Absolute did a FLAC stream some time ago. I remain to be convinced whether a) anyone cares, b) the 320bps stream isn’t good enough)
- (humour) – “Non-Londoners don’t listen to podcasts because they are not constantly bored and lonely“
Australia
- Radio plays come to life in The Blue Mountains
- Someone else judged the same podcast awards I did, and had some thoughts on podcasts as a result
Elsewhere
- India: a reporter in a rural district uses WhatsApp to broadcast local news — and makes money doing it
- New Zealand: One for the list of “how complicated can we make radio in a car”… wow, this takes some beating.
- Canada: So, radio advertising doesn’t work? This man put his money where his mouth was… and lost heavily. Great piece.
- Germany: Mad. The Germans decide that what DAB+ needs is another new logo that’s different from everyone else. Highlights everything wrong with radio tech – it isn’t a little national play any more.
- Ireland: 3 Ways to Ruin Your Radio Show.
- Singapore: Radio Is Rubbish At Marketing Itself – Except For This Station – my weekly column