Is Radio’s Future Pandora’s Present?
Will the future of radio be personalizable, like Pandora? No. But with an audience craving music and happy to tailor and tweak that...
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mramsey1
Jan 27, 2011
AOL’s Late Night Podcast Promotion Begins
AOL Late Night…. The radio initiative that should have been and never was. Three of the most popular podcasts (you know, those shows that...
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mramsey1
Jan 25, 2011
How to Create Killer Content Online
Ann Handley and is Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs.com which is one of my favorite resources for how to do digital media. She is...
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mramsey1
Jan 24, 2011
AOL is in the (Radio) Talent Business Now
Dear Radio Industry: Please explain to me why this deal is being done by AOL instead of you: AOL will on Monday launch a late-night video...
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mramsey1
Jan 23, 2011
Be Like Heidi and Frank – (Radio and) Internet Stars
Formerly top-rated LA radio stars Heidi and Frank have taken their show to the world via the Internet. How’s that working for them?...
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mramsey1
Jan 22, 2011
Broadcasters understand Audiences, not Communities
What’s the difference between an audience and a “community”? As David Siteman Garland puts it in his book Smarter, Faster, Cheaper:...
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mramsey1
Jan 17, 2011
Trends for Radio in 2011 – Talking with Jim Kerr
Triton Media’s Jim Kerr peers into the crystal ball to anticipate what is ahead for radio in 2011. Jim is VP Strategy for Triton, and so...
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mramsey1
Jan 16, 2011
Help your Clients Buy Better
A local media company. That’s what broadcast groups are thinking of themselves as nowadays, thanks to lots of folks like me (even if too...
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mramsey1
Jan 12, 2011
Pandora Today and Tomorrow – Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (Part 2)
This is part two of my two-part conversation with Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (you can find part one here). By far the best known player in...
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mramsey1
Jan 12, 2011
Pandora Today and Tomorrow – Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (Part 1)
The week after online radio leader Pandora announces a slew of new automaker deals and releases news that they have topped 75 million...
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mramsey1
Jan 10, 2011
The Most Important Takeaway for Broadcasters from CES
I’m struck by reading the post-mortems about the Consumer Electronics Show in the radio trades – the gist seems to sum up to this:...
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mramsey1
Jan 5, 2011
When Radio has No Idea what to Put on its Websites
If you have any conversation with anyone deep in the digital media space you will hear many references to the folks who put content out...
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mramsey1
Jan 1, 2011
Don’t Force your Personalities to Blog
It’s the lowest hanging fruit of social media best practices: Let’s get our personalities to blog! Yet what I hear over and over is that...
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mramsey1
Dec 30, 2010
Average Time with Radio Declines 2% – But So What?
The average time spent per day with radio has declined by 2% from 2009 to 2010. Meanwhile time spent with mobile is up almost 30% and...
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mramsey1
Dec 12, 2010
The Evolving Economics of Online Radio – a talk with Triton’s Mike Agovino
Does radio have a future in the world of online radio? Or is this a future that belongs to the pure-plays – the Pandoras and the...
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mramsey1
Dec 7, 2010
How Media can teach Technology to “Lean Back”
One of my top secret adventures recently included a day-long dialogue with a ton of super-smart trendwatchers in New York. Folks from all...
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mramsey1
Dec 6, 2010
The 4 Ingredients to a Great Radio Website
Everyone wants to know how to build a better website for their media brands. And that’s because, in their heart of hearts, most of us...
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mramsey1
Nov 29, 2010
Apple helps Radio by Banning “Bad” Apps
You’ve heard the dustup over whether or not Apple has unceremoniously banned all single-station apps from their app store. The evidence...
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mramsey1
Nov 28, 2010
Do Consumers REALLY want FM chips on Mobile Phones?
All other things equal, the best way to assess future behavior is to look to past behavior. That is, rather than ask consumers what they...
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mramsey1
Nov 16, 2010
The Future of Local Radio Revenue
Oddly enough, the future of local radio revenue is outlined in an Ad Age piece about the future of local TV revenue. Writes Ad Age:...
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