Ezra Eeman (Head of Digital at EBU Media Department in Switzerland), Tamar Charney (Managing Director of Personalisation and Curation at NPR in the USA) and Tomos Granryd (Head of Innovation Teams at SR in Sweden) discussed smart speakers in this session. Tamar said that there have been 33 million hours of listening to

Brenda Salinas, from Google News, eased delegates into her thoughts on the future of bringing audio to audiences with a hilarious and informative presentation.  She outlined three fundamental aspects of radio in the future: on-demand, interactive and data driven.  Firstly, Brenda talked about how Google is using data to customise radio for individuals. She

Audiences are spending more time consuming news. But how is the media industry responding to this? Mark Little, from Kinzen in Ireland, and Tamar Charney, from NPR in America, told the delegates about how they are personalising their audience’s experiences to keep up with changing habits.  The rise and fall of the social

Siobhan Kenny (CEO at Radiocentre), Rob Timony (Business Director at XI), Ger Gilroy (Managing Director of Off The Ball), Menno de Boer (Radio Director at Radio 538) and Michael Dujardin (Global Head of Marketing and Media at Tomorrowland Festival) talked about the future of radio and radio advertising. Siobhan Kenny said that she

Floris Daelemans from VRT introduced delegates to two innovative research projects at the Belgium broadcaster: Marconi and HRadio. Marconi’s aim is to make radio fully interactive and personalised, integrating all social media platforms into live views for the studio. The platform also encourages interactive engagement with listeners through polls and specific targeting, based

Xavier Huberland, from RTBF, kicked off this session talking about the vision for Belgian public service broadcasters. One of the things they are working on is their organisational structures. Instead of separating teams into separate platforms, RTBF has a new 360º production approach, where media and content teams work collaboratively across different

Ralph Van Dijk, the Creative Director of Eardrum in Australia and Paul Wauters, the Executive Creative Director of Babel in France, discussed what we can learn from some of the most interesting audio they have worked with.  Both Ralph and Paul brought lots of examples of award-winning production. They highlighted exactly what creative

Charlotte Hager, who is the Founder and Director at Comrecon Brand Navigation in Austria and Mark Barber MBE, who is planning director at the Radiocentre in the UK spoke about radio and audio in the future, with a particular focus on monetisation. Charlotte spoke about how audio might be used in the future,

Sibyle Veil, Chief Executive Officer of Radio France, was first up to explain how Radio France is tackling the future of the medium. She noted that the future of radio is not certain. “It is clear that on the technological level, radio is not competing” she said.  Beginning with more linear broadcast, Sibyle

Listen to Kelly after she steps off stage at Radiodays Europe 2019.