Month: January 2022

Radiodays Asia conference will be back with its third edition in September this year.Radiodays Asia 2022 will be hybrid; a live in-person event, but also offered online for those who might not be able to travel to attend in person. The main conference venue will be a centrally located hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Venue name and address to be confirmed.Preliminary dates for the event are 5-6 September 2022.

It will run in two parallel tracks to be able to offer a wide range of topics and specialized sessions with top-level international business leaders and professionals sharing their expertise.There will also be meet-ups where attendees can connect and discuss their most important issues. An exhibition area will offer opportunities for commercial partners to expose their brands and services and connect directly with attendees during the whole event.In addition, there will be specialized training sessions and workshops offered on the third day, after the main event.Further information will be released on registration and prices to attend in March 2022.Radiodays Asia brings together the best and brightest speakers. The event welcomes your suggestions to ensure that it covers all trends, topics and themes in the radio and audio industries today and in the future. You can suggest speakers and topics here.Radiodays Asia offer a wide range of options for sponsors, ranging from exhibition space to signage, branding and project sponsorships.If you have any queries about becoming an Exhibitor or Sponsor please contact the Radiodays Asia Commercial Manager: [email protected] […]

Singapore’s SPH Radio ended 2021 with growth in digital listenership though the Awedio app and station websites. Digital listenership grew by an average of 12.2% year-on-year1 according to data from Triton Digital, and downloads of Awedio grew by 9.1%, bringing the total downloads to 559,290 as of November 2021.The GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study shows that SPH Radio stations have higher engagement with its listeners as compared to the other radio stations as listeners rated highly on metrics like ‘visiting an event/advertisers website or social media page’ after hearing it on SPH Radio stations2. This is also in line with other supporting findings that SPH Radio listeners have a more positive opinion of the products or brands that are advertised and are more likely to talk to friends and family about what they heard or read3. The study was conducted with 3,000 individuals, aged 15 and above.Kiss92 remains a favourite among students and young adults and commands one of the highest average weekday tune-in durations among all English stations with an average of 1.4 hours daily. Kiss92 is also the second most listened-to English station in the car4 on weekends. ONE FM 91.3 remains one of the most popular radio stations for the white-collar audience segment, with listeners citing the reason of ‘discovering new songs’ as their biggest reason to tune in5. This is testament to the unique playlist that is both familiar to the primary audience segment yet containing the occasional songs that are off the beaten track.

In a separate survey with more than 2,000 respondents by Milieu Insights, MONEY FM 89.3 remains the most influential radio station for the second year in a row with the highest rate of conversion to action among listeners6. The station is also the most well received by the audience segment of PMEBs (professionals, managers, executives and businessmen), followed secondly by undergraduates7. MONEY FM 89.3 listeners rated the station highly for the survey metrics of ‘news’, ‘topical discussions’ and ‘interview with experts’ which were much higher than industry average.UFM 100.3, one of the two Chinese stations of SPH Radio, holds the highest average listenership among Chinese radio stations for listeners aged between 25 to 34 years old. On the other hand, 96.3 Hao FM has the highest average tune-in duration among all SPH Radio stations with 1.7 hours per day on weekdays and 1.9 hours on weekends8.General Manager of SPH Radio, Sim Hong Huat said: “2021 was definitely a tough year with many changes both within and outside of the industry and I would like to thank all our listeners for tuning in to our programmes. I’m happy that our survey results reflect our growth and continued commitment to deliver relevant, engaging and empowering content to our listeners. I am confident that we will see our numbers grow in 2022 as we have a very exciting year planned for our audiences.” 1 Jan to Nov 2020 and Jan to Nov 2021 (Source: Triton Digital)2 Radio Engagement (Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study)3 Media Engagement: Reaction to Ad among Radio Listeners(Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study)4 Radio Listenership by Place of Listening (Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study)5 ONEFM Reasons for Favourite Radio Station (Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study)6 Milieu Radio Survey: Trends and Observations 20217 Radio Listeners by Profile of Listeners (Source: Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study)8 Radio Listenership by Time Spent on Weekdays and Weekends (Source: GFK 2021 Singapore Audience Study) […]

If COVID allows, Radio conferences will be back on the list for 2022.Radiodays Asia, which has been held as a virtual event during COVID, will also be in September but just before IBC, from 6th to 7th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Radiodays Asia focuses on the future of radio, audio and podcast businesses, specifically for broadcasters in Asia, and usually has a good attendance and a number of speakers from Australia.

This years conference will by a hybrid event.Speakers at the previous Radiodays Asia conferences include Greg Byrnes (Nine Radio), Peter Charlton (Nova), James Cridland, Rachel Corbett (Nova Intertainment) as well as Valerie Geller and Steve Ahern.Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union has scheduled a virtual event from 22 – 24 March.Commercial Radio Australia is yet to finalise a date for next year and will likely wait until the situation with Omicron becomes much clearer.There is no official announcement yet from CRA about 2022.The CBAA conference for community radio stations will be held in Cairns from March 24 – 26 and will be opened by the new CBAA President, Jacquie Riddell.Speakers so far include Gabrielle Andolfatto – Youth Forum, Jon Bissett– Community Media in a Post-Pandemic World, Jo Curtin and Rachel Rees – Update from the CBF, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton– Meaningful Conversations About Climate Change, Holly Friedlander Liddicoat and Maddy Macquine– Women and GNC Forum.NAB Show and the Radio Show will now roll into one event, beginning in April next year with the conference in Las Vegas set for April 23 – 27 at the Las Vegas Convention Centre.This is the biggest show of equipment in the world and covers Radio, TV, Film and all other forms of broadcasting.The incorporation of the Radio Show means that their event, usually in the latter half of the year, will no longer happen.The Worldwide Radio Summit, usually held in March or April at a venue in Los Angeles, has not been held since COVID began, and there has been no announcement from organisers about the possibility of a gathering next year.Radiodays Europe will be in Malmö, Sweden from May 15 – 17, and already there over 120 speakers confirmed, including Yagmur Özberkan and Susani Mahadura who produce the award-winning podcast show, Özberkan and Mahadura, Caspar Adriani CTO Pluxbox, Richard Stern CEO TuneIn, Olle Zachrison Head of Digital News Swedish Radio, Nicolau Santos President RTP, Caroline Pouron P3 Swedish Radio, Nick Piggott Project Director RadioDNS, Rebecca Frank Content Director KISS, Anne-Marie Dohn Radio 4, Joe D’Angleo Xperi, Frances Currie, and Lorna Clarke BBC. The full list of speakers is here.The IBC Show is set for Amsterdam from September 9-12. This is usually the biggest show of equipment outside of the NAB Show.At this stage there is no program or list of speakers as the last IBC only just finished at the beginning of December this year. […]