Coming soon to the RadioPlayer: a whole bunch of improvements including a new embedded media player and better search results, including podcasts. Not before time, you might think, after a slightly underwhelming launch of the BBC and commercial radio joint venture earlier this year. It is also busy making a mobile prototype which will be up and running by Christmas with between 20 and 30 of the 293 stations currently available online. The RadioPlayer has about 6.7 million unique users a month. Its audience peaks at 9am – an hour later than traditional radio – as people arrive into work, and at about 9pm to coincide with weeknight football commentaries. Big news events, such as the summer riots, also prompt huge spikes in users. "If we can nail this it will be measurably the best mobile radio player app in the market," RadioPlayer founder and managing director Michael Hill told the TechCon curtain raiser to the Radio Festival in Salford on Monday. No pressure then…
