29 August 2025 Analysis by Steve Ahern Australian commercial radio businesses are resetting for a new era of audio advertising. For some time I have been commenting...
26 August 2025 In an online forum hosted by Montreal’s HEC University (École des hautes études commerciales), the European Broadcasting Union’s Deputy Director-General Jean Philip De Tender urged…
11 August 2025 Article by Kenny Wall. I’ve been in radio long enough to watch formats flip, teams shuffle, and now AI enters the scene.
30 July 2025 The world is full of news written by Ai bots, but how much of it is true and accurate, how much is disinformation and how...
30 July 2025 Analysis from Steve Ahern. Ai voice cloning is entering the next level of operational sophistication.
29 July 2025 The oldest song in the world was written down in musical notation during the 14th century BC. The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal was found inscribed on...
17 July 2025 A new study by Similarweb confirms the continuing click theft trend happening to news publishers. As users shift from traditional search to AI tools like...
16 July 2025 Futuri’s forensic analysis of Radio and TV revenue loss in 2025. Techology-for-media company Futuri has conducted a detailed study of the output from LLMs and discovered...
6 July 2025 Following our previous report on Cloudflare's efforts to block AI bots from scraping publisher content and the click theft that results from the practice, the...
2 July 2025 radioinfo has previously covered the growing trend of click theft, where AI Bots scan websites and summarise the information in a way that searchers do...
30 June 2025 Content from BPR Nearly 600 years ago, Johannes Trithemius, a skilled scribe, became the first recorded person to lose his job to technology. In...
25 June 2025 The final report of the Digital Platforms Inquiry by Australia's competition and consumer commission (ACCC) "strongly supports" the Government’s intention to introduce a general prohibition...
25 June 2025 At the recent Mumbrella conference, a range of Australian companies supporting the media and marketing industries showed off their products. One of those companies, Online Marketing...
16 June 2025 Over the next few weeks, Steve Ahern will report on some new technology tools and AI trends for the audio industry. Here is the first...
4 June 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) is holding a Cloud and Generative AI Summit in Sydney this week. Steve Ahern reports from the Summit.
4 June 2025 Clive Dickens has launched a new AI focused strategic advisory company called Meliora, with 9 other experienced technology and business associates. The company’s mission is...
26 May 2025 An advertising industry standard for ensuring advertisers can trust websites is being exploited by AI generated fake websites to steal ad revenue from genuine news...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
