We’ve got our leadership process completely upside down according to Marc Haberland, and as Vice-Program Director of the at Berlin’s most popular radio station, he’s a good person to ask. 'Team work is vital'. Marc suggests that to get the best from the your team, perhaps you need to shake everything up. He suggests you look

Times are changing in the advertising business. As the digital age has completely transformed the way we get content, experts Frank Bucher from RMS in Germany, and Sam Crowther, from Amillionads in the UK, explain how advertising is trying to find an audience that gets content from anywhere. Frank Bucher, MD Digital Media, RMS, explains that everything

Anthony Gay gave us the lowdown on how to harness the power of audio. He reminds us that manipulating sound is a superpower – and has a real effect on the listener. It’s innate in humans to respond to sound, like the roar of a lion, for example. We can’t turn our ears off! He told

Tony Blackburn has been there since the beginning. There were no legal “pop” music radio stations in the 1960s. The launch of BBC Radio 1 was prompted by the popularity of the illegal pirate radio stations off the coast in the UK. Tony Blackburn said the launch was a bit of a

Connected home devices are great but do they just reinforce the radio stations you know? How will listeners hear about your radio station for the very first time? At the moment, connected home devices aren’t great for discovery. Instead they are getting better with new products and technologies, as demonstrated by Michael Hill from Radioplayer. The main

What skills do you need to be a great producer? And how do producers take a radio programme to the next level? In a riveting masterclass, some of the world’s finest radio producers and presenters give their insight in making a range of radio shows. Joel Sucherman, Senior Director, Digital Products at NPR,

Adrian Feuerbacher from NDR in Germany opened the session by discussing his public news station, where they do lots of investigative reporting. They like to show the audience the whole picture with nothing held back. Instead NDR want to create a more accurate understanding of situations. Adrian said that lots of feedback on radio is negative… but

For talent, it is just as important to know what you’re not capable of and where your weaknesses lie, as it is being confident in your own performance. Confidence is still an issue for many, if not all, radio presenters - no matter how successful or how many years they have been in the industry. When

This session looked at how radio organisations are mixing digital and broadcast and whether they are moving apart or coming together. Helena Sahlen Folke said that ‘today, broadcast and digital are very integrated but we need to focus sometimes – we need people to work on making a very good podcast. We

Listening figures for music streaming services are rising year on year, and younger audiences are most enthusiastic than ever. Services like Spotify and Mixcloud are often seen as the ‘enemy’ of radio, and in this session two leaders in the streaming industry talked about its future and how radio and streaming can