· Professor Green and Katie Piper lead a nationwide radio series to support the nation’s mental health during the COVID-19 crisis
· 60 Second Support is a partnership between Radiocentre, the industry body for commercial radio and The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Heads Together campaign and brings together ten leading mental health charities
· This new series will reach millions of listeners across the UK, covering topics including isolation, bereavement, dealing with conflict at home and the benefits of exercise
Radiocentre, the industry body for commercial radio, has partnered with The Royal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign, to bring together 10 leading mental health charities in the UK for the special new content series, 60 Second Support, fronted by Professor Green and with contributors including Katie Piper, Poorna Bell and more. Taking over the airwaves from […]
Radio continues to reach huge audiences across the UK with around nine out of 10 people (87.5%) still listening every week, despite intense competition and changes in listening habits. New figures (Q4 2019) from RAJAR show 48.1 million tuning in – or, increasingly, asking their smart speakers to play their favourite stations – for three […]
Radiocentre is launching a campaign parodying the marketing hype used by companies such as Apple and Samsung for new technology launches to show that radio is the medium that advertisers should look to for the future. The campaign will also be on social media and on industry news websites and ends with the call to […]
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is launching a new radio campaign to shine a light on the damage we are doing to our oceans despite the fact that 95% of them remain unexplored. Created by M&C Saatchi, and following on from Tom Tagholm’s film ‘The Creature’, this radio campaign continues to ask the question ‘are we […]
A leading healthcare communications agency has teamed up with Heart UK to help raise awareness of cardiovascular disease in women. Havas Lynx Group, which employs 350 people across offices in Manchester and London, has created a unique ‘LuvDub’ radio commercial that is being used to highlight the fact that a large amount of the female […]
Great Western Railway is celebrating capacity increases and huge on-board service improvements with a new advertising campaign across print, digital and radio, with The Times and Global-owned radio stations, LBC and Classic FM. Created by Wavemaker North, the campaign aims to engage business customers who might otherwise be using cars or airlines for their business […]
Pure, a leading digital radio brand, has signed DeVries Global as its retained lead PR agency following a competitive pitch. Known as a digital radio pioneer, Pure announced its move into the wider audio arena at IFA 2018 with its first smart speaker, DiscovR. This prompted the hunt for a lead agency to help grow its business […]
The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has announced its predictions for the UK TMT sector in 2019. The news comes following the launch of the eighteenth edition of Deloitte’s TMT Predictions 2019 report. Smart Speakers: the hear and now Deloitte predicts that smart speakers – internet-connected speakers with integrated […]
A new campaign from Radiocentre sets out to tackle the knock-on effect Brexit may have on UK advertising budgets. The ads, created by Radioville, urge listeners to re-evaluate their media mix and informs them that radio can help their squeezed budgets go further. For these humorous radio ads, the industry body drafted in actor Oliver Maltman, […]
Bauer Media has appointed Simon Kilby as Chief Revenue Officer for Radio. This new role will see Simon create and implement the advertising strategy and lead a unified radio sales team that enables the delivery of commercial revenues across the Bauer radio portfolio. Simon’s expanded role comes at a time of high demand from commercial […]
