Adapting digital products to the audience: Improvements in personalisation take many forms. BBC R&D’s Senior Firestarter, Ian Forrester highlights the developments in adaptive podcasts https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/events/sounds-amazing-2022/

1. Adaptive podcasting? Sounds amazing!
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/events/sounds-amazing-2022/

2. Download adaptive podcasting now
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

3. On with the show

4. The future of broadcasting
@cubicgarden | https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/celebrating-100-years-bbc-manchester

5. @cubicgarden |
Podcasting now
@cubicgarden

6. @cubicgarden | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/rise-of-podcasts | https://www.podcastinsights.com/podcast-statistics/
The rise of podcasting

7. BBC Podcasts
@cubicgarden

8. Media has much more potential

9. Object based/Flexible media
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/object-based-media

10. Perceptive Radio
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

11. Computer in a box
@cubicgarden | http://thecreativeexchange.org/projects/perceptive-media

12. Smartphones
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13. Reinventing podcasting
@cubicgarden

14. Perceptive/Adaptive podcasting in an app
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

15. Players, smart devices and apps
@cubicgarden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting

16. Computation, Data and Sensors
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Device Owner Name
Number of Contacts
Battery Level
Battery Condition
Current Activity
Elevation
Number of Installed Apps
Device Make/Model
Time of Day
Weather
Sun Elevation
Location
Indoor/Outdoor
Mobile Network Operator Name
Available Wifi Networks
Altitude Pressure
Connected Bluetooth Devices
Proximity
External or Internal Audio Device
Device Orientation
Ambient Brightness
Local Noise Environment
Calendar
Music Tastes
Financial News
User Fitness Information
Current Heart-rate
Number of Listeners/Users
Can it hear itself
Is it in someone's pocket or
elsewhere?
What kind of apps
Knowledge of Home and Work

17. Perceptive interactivity
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/16530229333/

18. Security, Privacy and decentralisation from day zero
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2022-09-adaptive-podcasting

19. Let’s talk podcasts

20. Reference specification & implementation
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

21. Potential examples
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22. Adaptive podcast app
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

23. Available on the beta Google play store now
@cubicgarden | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.bbc.perceptivepodcasts

24. Beyond podcasts examples

25. Perfect mix everytime
@cubicgarden

26. Companion media with media
@cubicgarden

27. Extended performance
@cubicgarden

28. Companion media with objects
@cubicgarden

29. The music album reimagined
@cubicgarden | By XL Recordings / Elektra - http://www.7digital.com/artists/the-prodigy/experience/, Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=274031
Moby credited Experience with changing his perception about dance albums; previously he
felt that "dance albums had always failed [...] because they didn't work over the full length
of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn't want to
do," and noted that Experience "impressed me because they'd managed to create a full
listening experience which encompassed various styles. This was the kind of vision I had for
my debut album

30. I want to build one but can’t code…

31. Decentralised web editor
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/adaptive-podcasting-editor

32. The code

33. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/ | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/wiki
Adaptive podcast creation

34. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SMIL3-20061220/smil-timesheets.html | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/wiki/SMIL-timing-model
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

35. @cubicgarden | https://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
SMIL example

36. @cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/wiki/
Want to know more?

37. Community of practice

38. New medium, New rules
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15524004

39. @cubicgarden | http://storytellers.link | https://mwm-berlin.de/blog/workshop-podcast-produktion-ian-forrester
Community of practice

40. Some community efforts
@cubicgarden

41. Community of practice
@cubicgarden |https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/adaptive-podcasting | https://innovatie.vrt.be/en/about/hubs | https://storytellers.link/

42. Connected Studio Makerbox
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/makerbox/tools/adaptive-podcasting

43. Rabbit holes collective
@cubicgarden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t0fhtneLAE | https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/creative-development-unit

44. The future of adaptive podcasting

45. Open source in 2023 *
@cubicgarden | *Sept 2023 - https://github.com/bbc/adaptivepodcasting.github.io/

46. @cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/events/sounds-amazing-2022/
Ian Forrester
@cubicgarden
ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
Thank you for listening, questions?