Every week, we look at how radio stations use video to grow their audience. What works on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
Global, Europe’s largest commercial radio group, is launching ‘Plus’ on 23 September, a paid service that removes ad breaks from its music radio stations in the UK. Capital, Heart, Classic FM and Radio X each have their own version. For £4.99 a month or £49.99 a year, you can remove adverts from a radio brand…
On 21 September, Apple unveiled Apple Music Hall, a 600-seat venue located in the Battersea Power Station shopping centre in London. It is a venue where music and high-tech come together. As for the audience, the venue features a modular stage measuring nearly 12 metres, and a spatial sound system comprising 48 speakers positioned around…
Since July 2025, a secret behind-the-scenes taskforce has been bringing together twelve major industry players, including representatives from Spotify, SiriusXM and YouTube, around one question: what is a podcast? The Hollywood Reporter takes us behind the scenes. The urgency is more business than technical. With the rise in popularity of video podcasts, advertisers no longer…
It’s historic! Since 1 June, The Breakfast Club, iHeartMedia WWPR-FM Power 105.1’s hip-hop morning show, has been broadcast live and simultaneously on Netflix worldwide, every weekday morning for almost three hours. It is the first live daily broadcast in the platform’s history. The story began in January 2026: the full video replay episodes of The…
Netflix is continuing its conquest of new audiences in live sport, or rather, in this case, around sport. The platform has just signed a deal with Goalhanger, the production company behind The Rest Is Football, the podcast hosted by Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards. The Rest is Football will be broadcast daily on…
I guarantee: once you’ve watched one sequence of this game, you’ll want to watch them all! Hit The Spot is a radio game played by the team from The Edge morning show. The principle is simple: Dan has to sing a song with the sound off, and then fall back to the right moment when…
Faced with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, the streaming giant is redesigning its mobile application with vertical videos and video podcasts to encourage daily engagement. At its quarterly results presentation on Tuesday, the company announced a major overhaul of its mobile application, which will borrow heavily from the codes of social networks to appeal to users…
Goalhanger, the podcast production company behind hit shows such as The Rest Is History and The Rest Is Politics, has just reached a major milestone with over 250,000 paying subscribers across its network of shows and generating £15 million a year. With an average subscription of £60 per year, members enjoy attractive benefits including ad-free…
Spanish radio station Cadena 100 has hit the jackpot! In the Social Radio newsletter, which each week analyses the best-performing content on more than 40 European radio stations, Spanish radio station Cadena 100 is appearing more and more with a fairly classic radio format where they ask children questions and listen to the answers. From…
According to the Financial Times, the BBC and YouTube are to announce a partnership to create original programmes on the platform, which will then be broadcast on iPlayer and BBC Sounds. The announcement could come as early as next week. The tie-up represents a major breakthrough for an institution that until now has only used…