Ben Chapman and Alison Winter were first to the lectern, championing the BBC Sounds app. BBC Sounds has three main focuses: music, radio, and podcasts. Ben noted that BBC Sounds was still unavailable outside the UK, but assured delegates that it would be available internationally in the coming months. Audience insight has been

Understanding future technologies has been a core part of the conference throughout the morning, and it continued with Dave Coplin. Previously working with Apple and Microsoft, he set out to describe the “coming storm” of Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect our lives. “As great as technology has become in our personal

Kelly Doherty runs TheImagingHouse.com. She spoke at Radiodays Europe about emotional connection in imaging. She said to delegates that the goal of every radio station is connection – and how attracting listeners through copy and creative is the way to achieve that. Kelly said that radio stations need to stop running the same promos.

From day one, interacting with listeners has been a key part of radio. In a session filled with audio clips Paula Szuchman and Emily Botein from WNYC told us how bringing listeners into audio content builds real communities and remains an important part of their business model. The session started with a moment

The first full day of sessions began with an entrancing performance from the Vigneron Horns and Vigneron Singers. The performances filled the main auditorium with enchanting harmonies and alpine sounds. Quite the act to follow! Our hosts for the session, Florence Fischer and Paul Robinson, then took to the stage to launch the

Cheyenne Mackay hosted the session, and introduced keynote speaker Heidi Sivebaek, who is Diversity and Accessibility Editor at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Heidi inspired attendees to change the fact that 66% of voices we hear on the radio are still men, and that only 19% of experts on the radio are women. She

With video becoming an increasingly vital part of how radio stations reach audiences, and production budgets not necessarily increasing at all, Glen Mulcahy, from Titanium Media, set out to demonstrate how delegates can maximise their mobile devices and turn them into video production suites with #MoJo (Mobile Journalism).  “Think, if you will, of

From Latvia to Australia, people came from all over the world to get advice from Radiocentre's Planning Director on a variety of topics.  While public perception may have changed, UK radio still accounts for 75% of all the audio listening. According to data shared by Mark, despite its fast growth, podcasts still only

First up was hybrid radio. Floris Daelemans, from VRT, showed delegates their recent Marconi Project, which enables fully interactive and personalised radio shows and gives presenters the ability to poll their audience. Alexander Erk, from IRT, showed how the HRadio project had used “DAB over IP” to overlay dynamic content such as

Touted as the conference’s take on Speakers’ Corner, Innovation Square is an open space in the centre of the conference for anyone to book a ten minute slot and speak about whatever they wish. It is the radio-industry equivalent of an open mic night!  Innovation Square kicked off today with a talk from