Radio Is People

28 April 2025 Content by Anthony Dockrill The news about the Thy AI-generated radio host has been making waves around the world. Many people have already expressed concerns...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New Generative Sales Proposal tool from Enco #IBC24

30 September 2024 Enco’s Ken Frommert unveils a new tool for Salespeople to produce proposal audio demos on the spot. He told Steve Ahern at IBC24 that the...

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...

Is AI is going to eat my Audio?: Global Media Practical Futurist John Parikhal

29 September 2024 Contribution from Dave Charles, CEO of Media RESULTS Inc. John Parikhal (pictured) worked with me as media partners for Joint Communications Corp for 17 years, with...

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...

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,”...

New Podcast: AI and the Future of Radio

2 August 2024 The Reuters Institute has launched a short podcast series how AI will affect the future of radio. Episodes will be released through this month.

AI tools for Newsrooms

15 June 2024 Newsrooms across Asia and Europe have been integrating AI into their workflow progressively over the past few years. With the introduction of Generative AI, they...

Dumb money and smart listeners

13 June 2024 Covid has changed us in so many ways. I watched Dumb Money last night on Netflix.

The next generation of AI Broadcasting: ABU-Rai Days Conference

11 June 2024 The next evolution of broadcasting will be driven by three types of AI. “A combination of Artificial Intelligence, Audience Interaction and sophisticated Audio Interfaces,” according...

Use AI to serve creativity not the other way around: ABU-RAI Days

12 June 2024 “Be courageous and experiment with ways to support creativity,” said Rai's Head of PMO, Annalisa Polcino. “Use AI technology to serve creativity and not the...

Broadcasters name AI as the industry’s number one priority: ABU-Rai Days Conference

11 June 2024 In Europe this week, public service broadcasters from Asia and Europe are gathered at the ABU-Rai Days conference to build a global perspective on Artificial...

Wondercraft creates Parrot Mode to help AI deliver lines

21 May 2024 Wondercraft, the world's first AI-powered creative audio studio which was founded by Spotify and Acast's Oskar Serrander has launched Parrot Mode, a new feature allowing...

Addressing the AI elephant in the radio room

15 May 2024 Randy Travis's song Where That Came From has made the Billboard Country Airplay charts. It's been two decades between hits.

Mamamia embracing AI audio advertising with Sam, Natalie Harvey appointed CEO

9 May 2024 Mamamia has launched Sam, an AI-powered voice which has been trained up on hundreds of hours of the media group's podcasts. Sam will allow the...

Futuri shares groundbreaking AI insights for radio broadcasters at NAB Show 2024

16 April 2024 At the hotly anticipated NAB Show 2024, Futuri’s CEO Daniel Anstandig, alongside co-presenter Ameca, the AI-powered humanoid robot, shared findings from the most comprehensive study…

Book podcasts and audio books a new growth area: Bologna Book Fair Conference

14 April 2024 Audio books are becoming the next booming segment in the expanding audio industry. Now that audio books are available on a wide range of platforms,...

RDE24: Radio audiences are ready for AI

17 March 2024 At the start of Erin Callaghan, the Director of Enterprise Partnerships for Futuri Media's talk at RadioDays Europe 2024 she spoke of people's reticence the year...