Creating the Hybrid Radio Experience in Cars: New technologies, new radio experiences
With the technology evolving comes the challenge to innovate. Nowadays, cars are demanding new ways of thinking about the radio experience. Back in Track 4, Bob Dillon (Xperi), Roger Lanctot (Strategy Analytics), Nick Piggott (RadioDNS), Xavier Filliol (Radioline), Cas Adriani (Pluxbox) and Caroline Graze (Radioplayer) discuss the future of hybrid radio- with cars
New tech solutions to build a radio community
VRT and Pluxbox presented to the audience innovative solutions about listening to audio. They have been working with other companies together on the Marconi Project, their goal to develop interactive and personalised radio experiences. The Belgian TV and radio public broadcaster VRT is working on developing those experiences. Floris Daelemans, radio presenter and
Traditional to digital: “The change has to come from the inside”
Caroline Pouron, head of digital content at SR in Sweden, and Christoph Falke, general manager at Axel Springer Audio in Germany, went on stage to discuss the challenges of adapting traditional media to new digital formats. In the last few years, Axel Springer, a publishing company founded purely in print, has been making
Paul McKenna: an ‘anything is possible’ mentality
Paul McKenna dedicated himself to studying succes and learned techniques in neurolinguistics and clinical hypnosis. His career skyrocketed when, in 2008, Paul signed a contract with Discovery Channel. He sold around 10 million books, and worked with David Bowie: "I was "'starstruck'". Paul told a story about his past: He had to interview a local hypnotist. The hypnotist
Audio Tech innovations you should not miss – Part 1: The image
Moderated by Sarah Toporoff, from Podinstall - “Audio tech innovations'' combines the insight of Jason Panayotou, from eyeora and Markus Kuehn, from Medienzentrum Berlin GmbH & Co. KG presenting the new digital alternatives to Radio. Sarah Toporoff // Hedda Elisabet The future of radio crosses paths with digital tools most commonly used by social
New successful youth formats
Andrew Mojo, producer and radio presenter at DR P3, led a conversation on stage with radio presenters Kamal Hassan and Havshen Nabaz about their podcasts. Kamal Hassan, from the “Uden Filter” (“No Filter” in English) at DR P3, talked about the origin of the show’s name. Growing up, he was surrounded by people
The future of Music Radio: “Streaming vs Radio?”
The move to streaming is not a new thing. There’s no need to use the radio to listen to music nowadays. “It's not the fact that streaming has come around, it's about life having changed” - Lona Clarke Rebbeca Frank, Kiss Content Director, explains that stations that have music-only sequences, need to “stop being lazy”
New monetisation streams: Think outside of the box
“What happens when people aren’t watching the screen anymore? This is where audio comes in”. In this session, Mario Cabañas, General Manager of Targetspot, gives us a rundown of new ideas to adapt advertising and create revenue. For starters, there have been developments in apps that convert text, such as news articles, to audio,
How to Catch the Money Fish
The session Podcast and Monetisation brought to the stage the big question: how to make money from podcasting? Joe Copeman, Global SVP Sales at Acast, highlighted the need to see podcasts as a brand of their own. Podcasting isn’t just an independent project that results from our passion. Nowadays there is a lot of
The power of local radio: “Radio can save your life”
This interesting session highlighted how two local radios - Radio Wuppertal in Germany and Radio Popolare based in Milan - covered challenging situations. Alessandro Gilioli, journalist and director at Radio Popolare, and Georg Rose, editor-in-chief at Radio Wuppertal, went on stage to show the audience the power of local radio in a