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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 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 5, 2011
Toyota’s Entune raises the stakes for Radio Online and on the Road
Here’s a peek at Toyota’s new Entune in-dash entertainment system, which includes Pandora, iheartradio, local search, movie tickets,...
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mramsey1
Jan 4, 2011
How to Lead
Leadership. I submit to you that the radio industry has an abundance of managers but precious few leaders. This episode of Fareed Zakaria...
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mramsey1
Jan 3, 2011
The End of Radio’s Zero-Sum Game
Years ago, I invited author and technology guru Guy Kawasaki to speak before a group of broadcasters. The heart of his message was this...
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mramsey1
Jan 2, 2011
Can Radio Change the World?
One of the media genres I work in regularly is Christian radio. There is something different about a project with Christian format...
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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 11, 2010
5 Reasons Sirius/XM does not need to fear Pandora
Pandora and other online radio pure-plays want to be in the car, and that will mean trouble for Sirius/XM, right? After all, Pandora et....
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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
Smarter, Faster, Cheaper Marketing Strategies for your Media Brand
David Siteman Garland is on a mission – a mission to help you market and promote your business (or media brand) smarter, faster, and...
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mramsey1
Dec 6, 2010
A Media Lesson from a Bug
One of my favorite themes is that much of what limits radio’s potential is of our own making. When we think too narrowly about what we...
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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 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 22, 2010
News/Talk Radio becomes News/Talk VIDEO
What do you call a News/Talk station that’s investing in original web video programming? You call it a station that understands “news” is...
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