Smart speakers have been at the top of many Christmas gift lists for the last few years, and now spreading into new markets and in more languages. 

Where you once had to turn on a radio or search on your smart phone, you can simply ask your smart speaker to play your favourite station. 

Jaime Chaux is the Head of Digital for Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and discusses the key learnings he’s discovered to help you design your future in a voice controlled world.

Grace Lech attends the Women in Media session at Radiodays Europe.

It was an interesting insight into many women who divulged their inner-most media lives and how they were inspired by radio stalwarts during their growing and listening years.

With the advent of social media influencing some of their decisions, there was clear evidence of an age gap and how they coped with differences in appeal.

The spin from the network PR and Marketing Departments for survey 8.

See the raw results here.

Analysis here, Trend graphs here.

One of Australian radio's top industry figures says radio continues to thrive as a medium, with the bulk of Australians tuning in each week.
 

All the news straight from the PR Departments

 

Tips by Sally Perkins.

NOVA's Fitzy and his wife BeeJay went head-to-head in Rap Of The Week this morning.

It was all about showing off their rhythm and rhyming talents.

Watch to see who won here:


 

Liam Payne & Quavo hit No.15 in the AirCheck Air Play Chart with ‘Strip That Down’
 
Liam Payne is the latest ex-1D member to release a solo track and in its second week ‘Strip That Down’ is up 231 spins.

Selena Gomez’ ‘Bad Liar’ managed to jump 6 places to No.14.

Rita Ora’s latest release, ‘Your Song’ debuted at No.32 with 265 spins. This is her first release since her 2012 album ‘Ora’.

 

Last week, 96FM  received a piece of mail that had been lost with Australia Post for the last 34 YEARS, resulting in a country-wide search for the sender dubbed #FindRobyn.