This year we hosted four NEXTGENERS at Radiodays Europe, sponsored by DAVID Systems, Swedish Radio and Radiodays Europe. How was their experience of the conference in Amsterdam? Chloe English, Roundhouse Radio, UK "I arrived to RDE not having a clue what was in store. Still, with no expectations I can say that I've had my socks well

The winners of this year's Radio Hack Europe are Newscall, the team included: Andreas Reiser Arsatius Regler John-Louis Gao Markus Heimbuchner Minh Nguyen Thomas Günzel Project Description: An iOS-App that calls in customizable intervals to play news segments previously selected by you. This allows us to interrupt other playback on the device and resume it after ending the call, regardless

Since 2014 franceinfo has undergone a huge change, completely reinventing its global media strategy - moving towards making live, hot news their priority. This has coincided with a big project to go from a national radio station to offering news across TV, radio and online. Until recently it was France Info, but

Leading talent coach Steve Reynolds discussed ten simple things that leaders can do to motivate talent within their business. Defining leaders, Steve suggested that the term encompassed more than just managers and executives but that anyone working in a team could use these ten points to create a better working environment, which

Manoush went first. She said ‘show the audience that you are there for them’ – choose one or two non-audio platforms where your listeners are comfortable and ask how you can help them. And when they tell you – use their guidance and incorporate it into your show. She asks listeners to

The Music Director at Antyradio in Poland, Marcin Bakiewicz, tells us how his station has stayed on top in the competitive rock music market in Poland. Marcin thinks that stations should only use talent who are real fans of the music. You need that in order to ensure that the station stays

Cathinka Rondan, Pete Donaldson, Tom Webster and Charlotte Pudlowski talk through some of the ways podcasters can create successful programmes. Podcasting has grown steadily over the last few years but it has not exploded. Tom Webster, of Edison Research, has been looking at podcasts for 12 years but said that in the

In this entertaining session, the world’s most awarded radio creative, Ralph van Dijk, talked through the best radio ads of the last year. Many had received multiple awards for their campaigns

A change is coming to your radio stations website. dotCom is done. dotCo.CUK is done. dotRadio is here. It's the new domain for the whole radio sector. ‘It’s a testament to the vitality of radio, that people are looking for other ways to consume the medium, and to spread the brand’. Graham

There were four speakers during this session, chaired by Nick Piggott from RadioDNS. Walter Huijten, Distribution Manager at NPO, spoke first. He thinks Hybrid Radio answers a lot of issues for listeners, but there are very good independent reasons why stations should continue to invest in digital radio too. We can’t rule out any of the platforms,