Scott Mills to host Wise Buddah app-cast

20/07/2012 - 12:35 | 2 Replies More

Wise Buddah has been commissioned to make exclusive radio-style content for The Official Top 40 Chart mobile music app.

The weekly chart “app-cast” will take the form of a five-minute magazine show with interviews, gossip and music news.

It’ll only be available to users of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones that pay for The Official Top 40 Chart App – and it’s hosted by Radio 1′s Scott Mills.

It’s presented by Wise Buddah-represented Scott Mills and provides record labels and artists’ agents with a new and targeted way of promoting new and current acts to music fans.

Wise Buddah head of content Simon Willis said: “This app-cast is revolutionary in a number of ways. From a business perspective it’s a way of monetising podcasts, for Samsung it’s a way of using original content as a sales tool and most importantly it’s a new way for audience’s to engage with a quality audio product on a mobile device.”

The Official Top 40 Chart App is a joint initiative between the mobile phone manufacturer and The Official Chart Company. Wise Buddah was commissioned to produce the app-cast by mobile music company MusicQubed, the company that built and manages the service .

The first Wise Buddah-produced weekly chart app-cast will be made available to Samsung Galaxy users this Monday, 23 July 2012 and will feature Labrinth and Daniel Powter.


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  • http://www.musicradiocreative.com/ Mike Russell

    If it’s a “new and targeted way of promoting new and current acts to music fans” why restrict it to only one device? I can see that it may encourage specific music fans to go out and buy a Samsung device to hear this “app-cast” but why not offer part of the content as a free podcast that then directs listeners to get the full premium content in the Samsung app?

  • Matt

    It should be a radio 1 podcast as opposed to an app