About/Help
- About ResearchTalk
- About podcasts
- Adding to iTunes
- Listening via the website player
- Enquiries/sponsorship opportunities
- Contact us/feedback/suggestions
- Transparency policy
- Blogs we read
- Podcasts we listen to
About ResearchTalk
Our formula is refreshingly simple.
We bring together thought-leaders to discuss an area in which they have passion and authority.
We then release this as a free podcast after ensuring that the content is relevant, engaging and within our target of 20-30mins.
ResearchTalk is designed to be as inclusive and diverse as possible. We do this by removing barriers…
- …to consumption – podcasts are free
- …to participation – anyone with an interesting take can participate, see below
- …to content – any topic that impinges on the work or lives of research and marketing professionals is fine
About Podcasts
Podcasts are audio or video files that can be easily played on computers or mp3 players such as Apple’s iPod (the most popular portable player in the world and widely used by commuters and travellers to listen to podcasts). Refer to Wikipedia for more about podcasts and podcasting.
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Adding to iTunes
The term ‘podcast’ refers to the useful ability of software such as Apple’s free iTunes software to automatically download and play podcasts, thereby removing the hassle of you continually visiting websites to get new content: once subscribed, new shows download automatically.
So if you don’t use iTunes or other software to listen to podcasts then you’re missing a trick. It’s easy, here’s how to get started:
- Get iTunes here and install it
- Add our podcast to iTunes or other podcast software with the help of this tutorial, courtesy of the excellent SmallBizPod
Listening via the Website Player
The player on this website uses Flash and so will not function at all/correctly if you don’t have that software on your PC or if your (corporate) firewall prohibits access to it. If you cannot install or adequately negotiate the firewall, then use the download link provided to download and listen via your PC’s own player.
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Enquiries/Sponsorship Opportunities
ResearchTalk provides an ideal platform to get your targeted messages across to an engaged audience at very reasonable cost.
Email/call us (see below) with full details of your requirements and ballpark budget and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible for a chat.
Please note that we don’t work with or through PR agencies. Any enquiries from PR agencies will thus be ignored.
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Contact us/Feedback/Suggestions
We love feedback and you can contact us in one of two ways:
- Email us
- Leave an audio comment: +44 (0)7092 074262
Transparency & Posting Policy
We will always be completely transparent about sponsorship or commissioned work. So if anyone pays us, you’ll see the podcast clearly labeled as such (e.g. ‘brought to you by’, ’sponsored by’, ‘commissioned by’ etc.).
Moreover, you can be completely confident that nothing on this network will ever been put there for reasons other than merit. In fact we make clear to those who commission/sponsor us that there’s never any guarantee that produced work will feature on the network. That’s always been our policy and it does from time-to-time lose us work.
So, why the strict policy? Because we value integrity and reputation, and pay-for-placement is the surest way to destroy this. And on a practical level the audience soon sees through self-serving stuff and justifiably loses interest. This may seem an obvious position to hold but you’d be very surprised at the calibre of organisations that have approached us for paid placement without even a hint of embarrassment or irony, very worrying!
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