New (ways of using) Media

Discussing the future of radio in The Word

Friday, September 18th, 2009 | New (ways of using) Media | No Comments

Future Airwave in The Word magazine

Yesterday morning I had the nice surprise to find the USB issue of Belgian lifestyle magazine The Word in my mailbox. This special edition (subscribers only) entitled “Universal Stereo Boombox” features (among other nice content) a piece about Citywurl founder Billy Palmier, an interview with Stonesthrow‘s mastermind Peanut Butter Wolf … plus an article about LDBK radio and more specifically the work we did around our players.

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Article by Nicholas Lewis – Picture by Yassin Serghini
From left to right: Anthony Janssens (Datasmart), Geoffroy Delobel, Ali Nassiri (Central Design) & Julien Mourlon

Tags: ldbk, new ways of, radio, radio 2.0, radio manifesto

Video might have killed the radio stars… what about Internet?

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | New (ways of using) Media, cleverwood trends session | 1 Comment

What started in 2002 as a weekly radio show on a local radio station kept on evolving throughout the years. If I am still proud to produce shows for FM radio stations (thanks to FM Brussel and 057 radio for giving us this opportunity), I also decided in March 2008 to create an online radio station on the Radionomy platform as a way to expand the Laid Back project.

So far more than 20 deejays and numerous guests collaborate on LDBK and help us broadcast 24/7 the best in urban music from the last 40 years. But our goal with LDBK is more ambitious than being a jukebox. We want to make the best use of the new technologies in order to shape the future of radio.

In December 08, willing to balance my DIY experience with some “corporate” views, I collaborated with Cleverwood to organize a conference about the future of radio. Many meetings, brainstorming sessions and prototypes later, we released – together with Central and Datasmart – the first public version of the LDBK desktop player.

Next to the desktop player and it’s upcoming iPhone version, I also wanted to explain the theory behind our experiments. Hence this manifesto listing 11 recommandations on what could be done to offer a new radio experience to listeners.

Download the Radio Manifesto (pdf version)

Slideshow FR – Slideshow NL

Each point of this manifesto corresponds to a group of functionalities we might consider adding to our players. Let’s take #10 for instance: “Listening to the radio doesn’t require 100% of the listener’s attention. But once you catch their attention you’d better give them something nice.”

This pop up – implemented in th latest version of our player – appears when we have something more to offer to our listeners be it an exclusive article, a free track on download or an invitation to participate to a contest/game.

To test the latest version of the LDBK player or share your vision on the future of radio, leave us a comment or join me on the radio 2.0 network.

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Manifesto:
Layout – Diane d’Andrimont
French translation – Olivier Beaujean
Dutch transaltion – Jurgen Noel
Text – Julien Mourlon in collaboration with Fabian Tilmant

Players:
Programming – Anthony Janssens
User Interface Design – Ali Nassiri & Geoffroy Delobel (Central Design)
Concept – Julien Mourlon

Top picture:
“Retro Radio” by Francis Bourguoin

Tags: new ways of, radio, radio 2.0

cleverwood Trends Session 3 Dec : La métamorphose de la radio – sommes-nous prêts pour le 2.0.?

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | cleverwood trends session | 1 Comment

Are we ready for the next radio generation?

During the next Trends Session on December 3rd, cleverwood invited a pannel of belgian key players in the radio sector to discuss the future of the traditionnal radio in light of the current digital evolution.

During this session, Cédric Godart (Pure FM) will moderate a discussion between Marc Vossen (general manager – Nostalgie), Laurent Finet (new media advisor – RTBF), Jean-Jacques Deleeuw (general manager – Bel RTL) and Yves Baudechon (co-founder – Radionomy) to debate around the opportunities and challenges that arise with the explosion of the new media.

If you are interested, feel free to register to this event, we’ll be happy to meet you there!

The Trends Sessions are part of our Dynamic Insourcing programme, you can also have a look at the previous trends sessions on Mobile Advertising.

Tags: radio, radio 2.0, trends session