June, 2012

Supercharge your Boos for the new iPhone Podcast app with Audioboo Plus

The big news in the digital audio world this week is the release of a new Apple podcast app for iOS (or iPhone and iPad to you and me). It’s significant because previously to listen to podcasts natively on iOS you had to plug your phone into your computer and synchronise them with iTunes. I’m [...]

Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend

Last weekend was a big weekend for Hackney – BBC Radio 1 hosted a huge free festival, the Hackney Weekend, and invited many of the big names from the world of pop to in front of thousands in the park and millions more at home. That’s not all though – backstage they dispatched reporters Ashley [...]

New version of the Audioboo app out for iPhone!

Over the weekend you may have noticed an update to the Audioboo iPhone app was released into the App Store – if not, then go there now and update your iPhone to have the latest version! Here’s a brief summary of what’s new: Channels We’ve had them for a while now on the Audioboo website [...]

I should probably introduce myself

Hello, I’m James O’Malley, Audioboo’s new Community Manager. I just started working at Audioboo this week, and I’ll be spending my time on the frontline – helping users, updating our Twitter and Facebook pages with Boos of note – and best of all, I’ll get to listen to all of the awesome content that is [...]

There’s something funny about Euro 2012…

The Euro 2012 football championship is in full swing – and Absolute Radio are broadcasting live commentary from many of the games as part of Ian Wright’s Rock & Roll Football Show. Over on Absolute 90s though – the football is getting a whole lot… sillier. Absolute have recruited a number of top comedians to [...]

Keeping up with the #CitizenRelay

As you may already know, as we speak the Olympic Torch is currently touring the UK – in a gigantic relay that will touch almost every community –  before reaching the Olympic stadium in time for the opening ceremony. The torch is currently weaving it’s way through Scotland, and it isn’t alone – the #citizenrelay [...]