…much like the one being staged in “secret” at the NAB Radio Show right now. And like that meeting, the purpose of mine is to plot...

“Is it time to kill that clunky stream?” reads the headline in the Radio Ink piece.  It is an interview with the National Associate...

That’s how Apple’s marketing chief, Phil Schiller, introduced the new iPhone yesterday. You can forgive the whiff of hyperbole because...

I came across an interesting opinion recently in a Fast Company piece called “Why VCs Still Love Social Media” in spite of legendary...

When it comes to radio’s future, how important is it to try out stuff and take chances? Very important, if you ask Beau Phillips, former...

In this transmedia world of ours any gathering that attracts only folks from one medium is missing the point. SXSW is no such gathering,...

The debate-of-the-week in the radio business is: What do we do to monetize our stream?  Do we simulcast what’s on the air and throw it in...

Chris Bell is president of Triton Digital’s Applications and Services division. Triton is an innovator in bringing game mechanics to...

Another day, another technology-driven way to undo advertising.  Forget the fact that advertising is what pays for most of the content we...

There’s this assumption in digital-land that everybody wants to “engage.”  That “engagement” is the ultimate goal of all digital...

You’ve probably heard about the new Nielsen study indicating that radio remains the leading way folks discover new music. From...

Sometimes we have this weird notion that platforms are places for us to put the same stuff everywhere. They’re not. The way to make your...

What’s the best way for radio to compete in a newly digital mobile environment? Is it to ensure that every mobile phone has an activated...

Kevin Smith is most famous as a movie director and writer – the creator of films like Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and the recent Red...

One of radio’s great opportunities is to get our communal heads and hands around the form and manner in which we post audio online.  Yes,...

I spend my day inviting others to meetings and accepting invitations from others. And I do it the same way you do, by sending or...

Why does a relatively small fraction of your audience “like” you on Facebook? Because, as Shama Kabani reminds us, you’re looking in the...

Back in the day, Ries & Trout Own one, they advised.  Just one. This played well with a broadcasting audience for obvious reasons – we...

In a content-driven, anything – anytime world, the advantage shifts from radio stations to personalities and the entities that own or...

Kickstarter is one of several crowdsourced funding platforms.  Have a pet project?  Post it there and let the crowd fund it for you (or...