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Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, predicts what will be big news at this week’s Mobile World Congress…

Raymond Snoddy on radio – a talkSPORT football match made in heaven; record audiences; and how to replace dead Radio 4 listeners…

John Straw, CEO and founder of Linkdex, says for brands and companies to have a fighting chance of success in the next decade they need to optimise their presence on search engines…

In response to Tess Alp’s comment – The potential for TV + mobile is something to celebrate not an excuse to carp – Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, uses Robert Heath’s work to support his original point.

In response to Simon Andrew’s latest Mobile Fix, Tess Alps, CEO of Thinkbox, says “if TV ads don’t work how come you’re expecting people to pick their mobiles to interact with them?”

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, says that while TV has hung onto eyeballs, TV advertising has lost for the war for attention…

Commercial radio as a whole will be pleased with the year on year performance, despite the slip back in share vs the BBC this quarter. Within this set of figures though, there are some clear winners.

If I was an analogue radio operator, these figures would scare me. Digital-only stations’ numbers are going up and digital listening is a growing percentage of heritage stations’ audience – in London often 25% to 40%.

Digital has emerged as the star of today’s RAJAR results with almost 4 million more people tuning in via DAB than this time last year – a really promising step in the right direction for switch-over.

James Cridland, managing director of Media UK and a radio futurologist, says the latest digital listening figures are a welcome, gradual, improvement: but anyone expecting the internet or DAB to replace FM listening any time soon might have egg on their face…