Last week, Mixcloud teamed up with 14 winners and nominees from this year’s Online Radio Awards to host a unique live broadcast, lasting 24 hours and featuring shows from around the world.
Starting at 10am on Thursday 15 December and ending at 10am on Friday 16th December, Online Radio Awards Day combined 11 cities from 7 countries, including South Korea, Canada, United Kingdom and France.
The global event attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers who watched radio shows from the likes of Le Mellotron in Paris, The Lot Radio in LA and Na Manteiga Radio in Sao Paulo. Throughout the day, each live show was shared on the Mixcloud Facebook page, with styles ranging from hip hop and soul to techno and jazz, as well as talk radio from the likes of Radio Free Booklyn and live hip hop from Reform Radio.
Online Radio Awards Day is a celebration of some of the best online radio in the world. But the event is about more than just one day. Every show will also be available on Mixcloud so fans of music and talk radio can listen to what went down on the day.
15:00 – 16:00: Reform Radio, Manchester
16:00 – 17:00: Chunks of Funk with Mr Leenknecht, Brussels
05:00 – 16:00: dublab, Los Angeles
You can listen back to all the shows on Mixcloud via the Online Radio Awards Day playlist.
The Online Radio Awards is now in its third edition and each year the event goes from strength-to-strength. This year there were are a total of 27 winners across a number of categories and territories chosen by a panel of industry judges. There were also 4 overall winners for Best Online Music Show, Best Online Talk Show, Best Online Radio Station and Best Online Radio Personality.