The quarterly report of radio audiences (RAJAR) in the United Kingdom has been published, and while most of the data is only available to members, some interesting facts for online radio fans have come out via the BBC News report. The first point is that generally listening to radio has been on the rise, and part of that can be put down to new technology (roughly 15m people using DAB, digital TV or internet). And the number of people listening on their mobiles has risen by 13%.

Nokia have also announced to the stations that are set up with the Nokia Internet Radio directory that they can get access to their traffic figures through their online account that they set up on joining the service. The Internet Radio Usage Report is available as a free service, and exports data out as CSV or Excel for integration as required by the stations.

-- Ewan Spence, May 2009>