No ACRAs a much bigger deal than ARN AI

21 April 2025 You all have some or a lot of choice about how you spend your time and your money. On Thursday as we headed into the...

Cada’s voice cloned workday presenter ruffles feathers at ARN

19 April 2025 CADA's workday presenter is a real person. But she doesn't present the afternoon shift live and is not employed as a radio presenter.

Broadcasting, Podcasting, Audio Equipment Trends at #NABShow 2025

14 April 2025 Steve Ahern walks through the 2025 #NABShow to discover some of the equipment and programming trends at this year's exhibition in Las Vegas. Some of...

AI has some savvy advice for radio

6 April 2025 By Dave Charles, CEO of Media RESULTS Inc. I asked three AI sources (CHAT GPT, Perplexity AI and Claude AI the following on behalf of...

Sustaining radio’s future: RadioDays Ireland 2025

29 March 2025 In a RadioDays Ireland session hosted by Will Faulkner, a panel of radio leaders discussed some of the most important current issues for the Irish...

AI Tools to update your Audio and Podcast Workflow

28 March 2025 Audio may be the oldest of the so-called "new media," but it's also true to say that it's currently getting the most bang for the...

Measuring success to increase podcast revenue #RDE25

24 March 2025 “Working in Podcasting means constantly teaching other people about podcasting,” said Sarah Toporoff from Headliner in a podcast measurement and advertising session at Radiodays Europe....

We are real and our audience is real: Using AI in News #RDE25

18 March 2025 Radio France is experimenting with news to get the best advantage from new AI technologies, while maintaining human news judgement In a summit session at...

Don’t be fooled, public service media is more important than ever #RDE25

16 March 2025 Swedish Radio’s Cilla Benkö, started in the broadcaster’s sports department and is now the Director General and CEO. “Even back when I first joined, people...

How AI enhances audio story telling #RDE25

14 March 2025 There is a fast growing market for audiobooks, according to publishers speaking at Radio Days Europe 25. Ruth de Jager from Storytel and Ashu...

Responsible use of AI in radio #RDE25

10 March 2025 Radio stations have become early adopters of AI, with almost everyone in the AI session room using AI in their work. With such an interest...

Who owns your audience?

1 February 2025 Opinion from Steve Ahern. The short TikTok shutdown in America has started radio broadcasters and podcasters thinking about the role that social media plays in...

AI disruption in the music industry: Text-to-audio generation

20 January 2025 The past few years have seen an explosion in applications of artificial intelligence to creative fields. A new generation of image and text generators is...

IT sector is now entwined in the music industry: Centre for Media History conference

24 November 2024 Steve Collins and Sarah Keith delivered a session titled Music and AI: Creativity, Control, and Copyright at this week’s Centre for Media History conference at...

Mark Ritson’s top marketing trends for 2025: ADMA Christmas Function

24 November 2024 At ADMA's Christmas function last week in Sydney, marketers gathered to schmooze contacts, share some festive drinks and hear marketing professor Mark Ritson's views on...

General Motors to ditch Apple Carplay and Android Auto

13 November 2024 Car giant General Motors wants to take back control of its entertainment and navigation systems and will ditch its interface with Apple's CarPlay and Android...

IBC Trends 6: Detecting Deep Fakes

7 November 2024 Steve Ahern spotted six important trends at this year’s IBC Conference in Amsterdam. This is his report on trend number 6 (previous reports here).

IBC Trends 5: Digital Watermarking

29 October 2024 This is the fifth report in Steve Ahern’s series on new trends at IBC24 in Amsterdam. Electronic watermarking has been around for a while.

IBC Trends 4: Using AI to make talkback and reporting more efficient

22 October 2024 At IBC24 there are always a few ground breakers who are thinking further ahead than most. This year they were thinking about how AI can...

AI Podcasters confronted with an existential crisis

18 October 2024 One of the features of Google’s NotebookLM GenerativeAI engine is that it can create podcasts to explain its research, not just text. The synthetic voices...

Scope3’s mission to decarbonise media and advertising

16 October 2024 InMobi Advertising has partnered with sustainability platform Scope3 to pioneer the world’s largest green media offering, purpose-built for mobile and in-app. The Scope3-powered solution allows...

IBC Trends 3: Automated Content Detection

11 October 2024 This is the third in Steve Ahern's series on new trends at IBC24 in Amsterdam. Content detection has come ahead in leaps and bounds...

IBC Trends 1: Artificial Intelligence

30 September 2024 Change is constant in our industry now. What does that mean for broadcasters, streamers, podcasters and catch-up services? During the massive four day IBC Conference...

AI knows you so well you don’t need channel choice: Scott Galloway at #ADMAGlobalForum

23 August 2024 In an ADMA conference session examining trends and predictions for the coming 12 months, Professor Scott Galloway explored big picture media trends, largely from an...

People are not too busy to engage with advertising, they’re just overwhelmed: Tom Goodwin #ADMAGlobalForum

20 August 2024 “The idea that people are too busy to engage is a myth, anyone who is on Tiktok is not too busy! What they really are...

Our content is a valuable asset: ABC experiments with AI

19 August 2024 At a conference in Europe in June, the ABC’s Artificial Intelligence specialist Gareth Seneque gave insights into the way the national broadcaster has been doing research and...

Generative AI has created enormous upheaval in the tech world: Futurecast Conference

7 August 2024 “Millions of people have changed the way they search, they write and they create images… Generative AI has created enormous upheaval in the tech world,”...

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