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What Apple’s CarPlay Means for Radio

Posted on 4 March, 2014 by Mark Ramsey

By now you’ve heard about Apple’s new CarPlay platform which is gearing up for battle with Google’s Open Automotive Alliance, not to mention all the other platforms making a land grab for that whitest of spaces, the car dashboard. The Apple platform – coming soon – will only be available on a few new car […]

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Buying Pandora can Increase Your Radio Station’s Ratings

Posted on 19 January, 2014 by Mark Ramsey

What?! Yes, a radio station can buy time on Pandora with the intention of driving audience to the station either online or (less efficiently) on-air. How do I know? Because some stations have done it – and done it successfully enough to be repeat customers. Just one example: A station in a top ten market […]

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Here’s what IHeartRadio and TuneIn are Missing

Posted on 5 December, 2012 by Mark Ramsey

Lots of blood, sweat, tears, and treasure have gone into making radio’s alternatives to Pandora et. al., yet I think both IHeartRadio and TuneIn are missing perhaps their greatest opportunity. And it’s staring them in the face. To be sure, these are terrific apps – as good as anything out there. So what are they […]

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Apple’s “Pandora Challenge” is really a Radio Industry Challenge

Posted on 26 October, 2012 by Mark Ramsey

Apple is rumored to be launching a radio-like streaming service, and Bloomberg is missing the point. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a piece focused on Apple’s challenge to Pandora, yet it’s blind to the larger reality: Whatever targets a radio-like experience in mobile platforms (especially cars) and is advertising-supported is a significant challenge to ALL radio, not […]

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Apple wants to Erase your Radio Spots

Posted on 21 August, 2012 by Johan Lindström

Another day, another technology-driven way to undo advertising. Forget the fact that advertising is what pays for most of the content we enjoy on TV or radio. Apple was just granted a patent for technology that would allow users to switch seamlessly to their own audio or video files once ads started playing on their […]

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What’s Wrong with your Podcasts, Radio?

Posted on 3 August, 2012 by Johan Lindström

One of radio’s great opportunities is to get our communal heads and hands around the form and manner in which we post audio online. Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded podcasts, people! If you’re a radio broadcaster then chances are you have a section of your website devoted to show podcasts (assuming you have a […]

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Will Kickstarter Disrupt Public Radio?

Posted on 20 July, 2012 by Johan Lindström

Kickstarter is one of several crowdsourced funding platforms. Have a pet project? Post it there and let the crowd fund it for you (or not). Recently the folks at public radio program developer PRX (friends of mine) have been experimenting with crowdsourcing development funds for some of their programs, including the third season of a […]

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