Bellwether Blues
The latest Bellwether report from the IPA makes for grim reading - UK marketing budgets in the last quarter of 2008 fell to a record low, and 2009 looks set to see further spending cuts. Laura Swinton...
View ArticleSo how is radio doing so far in 2009?
Well you have to start with the downturn, and how badly it’s affecting stations and groups. The numbers are of course terrible and I suspect we’ll see some horrible double digit declines over the next...
View ArticleTweet, to who? It doesn’t matter
Though Facebook was celebrating its fifth birthday this month with its 150m users, the party has been overshadowed by the spiralling stock of a rival social media platform. ‘Suddenly, it seems as...
View ArticleThe BBC and a question of trust
I don’t expect to find myself agreeing with former Tory cabinet minister Sir Norman Fowler too often, but he made a strong case for further reform of the BBC in this week’s Media Guardian. The BBC...
View ArticleHow can creativity thrive in a credit crunch?
It’s just three months since the first Media Festival and so much has changed. Yes, we knew it as going to be bad back in the dark days of November last year – but I’m not sure anyone really...
View ArticleThe TV Industry Must Avoid Acronym Hell
I received an email this week from a contact who works in the TV industry in Australia asking my opinion on something to do with what he called ‘PDRs’? Now I had to stop and think what on earth he...
View ArticleSpotify the difference
While undoubtedly the most high profile filesharing courtcase to date, Pirate Baygate has this weekend also become one of the leading global news stories. Sir Paul McCartney has brought the debate...
View ArticleFor Iran, citizen journalism is the only journalism
Twitter has courted its fair share of news headlines since the turn of the year – many for its novelty factor, in truth – but this time it was different. When online news sources began reporting that...
View ArticleGuest blog from Alex Connock, CEO, Ten Alps
We might not have got a barbecue Summer, but it does promise to be a vintage Autumn – in the media at least. Already the market’s showed a sign of hotting up. On one day last week, Mick Pilsworth’s...
View ArticleWhy we’ve put the subs walls back up on Broadcast
We have put the subscription barriers back in place on Broadcast’s website Broadcastnow.co.uk after a year or so of being “free to air”. So far the response has been largely positive. I saw one Tweet...
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