Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2001 by Paul Clement and Nick Sabine as a website for providing news and information relating to the Australian dance music scene.{{Cite news|last=Sisario|first=Ben|date=2015-07-12|title=Influential Site Inhabits Fringe of an Electronic Dance Music Culture|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/business/media/influential-site-inhabits-fringe-of-an-electronic-dance-music-culture.html|access-date=2022-02-23|issn=0362-4331}}

As Resident Advisor grew both Clement and Sabine initially kept their day jobs and hired staff to help with the site. In 2006, after Clement and Sabine had moved to the UK, they both began working full time on Resident Advisor and incorporated the company in the UK, with an office in Berlin opening 2007.

RA Tickets was unveiled in 2008 to allow promoters of electronic music to sell tickets. RA Tickets launched a face-value ticket resale system.{{cite web|last=Malt|first=Andy|title=Resident Advisor launches face-value ticket resale service|url=http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/resident-advisor-launches-face-value-ticket-resale-service/|work=Complete Music Update|access-date=6 August 2014}}

In January 2014, the first complete redesign in the site's history was announced, adding mobile support, responsive design, a new logo, full SoundCloud integration on artist pages and other features.{{cite web|title=Resident Advisor relaunches site|url=https://ra.co/news.aspx?id=22333|website=Resident Advisor|date=26 January 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131081353/http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=22333|archive-date=2014-01-31}} At that time, Resident Advisor started to have more than two million users per month.

An article in The New York Times, published in July 2015, mentions Resident Advisor as "one of the most influential EDM-focused sites".

The company launched its first consumer-focused iOS app in 2015. The RA Guide, free in the App Store (iOS), takes the site's listings for clubs, festivals and concerts to the mobile market.{{cite web|last=Dredge|first=Stuart|title=Electronic music website Resident Advisor takes its club listings mobile|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/resident-advisor-club-listings-mobile-app|work=The Guardian|date=24 June 2015|access-date=24 June 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730200517/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/resident-advisor-club-listings-mobile-app|archive-date=30 July 2015}} Apple featured RA as a curator, with the launch of Apple Music, to contribute electronic music playlists to the streaming service.{{cite web|last=Dredge|first=Stuart|title=Is Apple Music worth paying for?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/30/is-apple-music-worth-paying-for|work=The Guardian|date=30 September 2015|access-date=30 September 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001221136/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/30/is-apple-music-worth-paying-for|archive-date=1 October 2015}}

In October 2020, following the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on British arts and culture organisations, RA received £750,000 from the Arts Council of England as part of the UK's Culture Recovery Fund initiative.

At the start of 2021, Resident Advisor launched a redesign of their existing website. The new design also coincided with a change to their domain name, migrating from residentadvisor.net to ra.co.{{cite web|title=RA launches new website |date=5 January 2021|url=https://ra.co/news/74129|website=Resident Advisor}}

The RA Podcast is a weekly mix of electronic music from top producers and DJs. It launched on 6 March 2006 with a mix from Troy Pierce. In 2010, Resident Advisor started a second podcast series titled the RA Exchange. The site defines the RA Exchange as a series of conversations with artists (e.g., Guy Gerber, Morgan Geist, and New Order), labels (e.g., Defected Records, Future Classic, and Rush Hour), and promoters (e.g., Decibel, MUTEK, and Sónar) shaping the electronic music landscape.{{cite news|last=Matos|first=Michaelangelo|title=In pod we trust|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/08/podcasts-dance-music-rave|access-date=26 January 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 July 2010|quote=The first RA Podcast, 84 minutes of minimal techno from Berlin's Troy Pierce, appeared in March 2006, and four years later, the RA podcast sits comfortably at the top of the heap.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203163520/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/08/podcasts-dance-music-rave|archive-date=3 February 2014}}

Resident Advisor launched RA Films in 2011, starting with a documentary series called Real Scenes that covered music culture in Bristol, Berlin and Detroit. Over the following years, RA continued to produce a variety of video-based content including; live performances, interviews, and both short and long-form reporting.{{cite web |title=Resident Advisor channel on YouTube |website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/residentadvisor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601013809/https://www.youtube.com/user/residentadvisor/

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From 2006 to 2016 Resident Advisor conducted two annual voting polls at the end of each year under the name RA Poll. The first polls the publications readers, who are asked to vote for their top 100 DJs{{cite magazine|title=Resident Advisor Reveals Its Top 100 DJs of 2015|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6804505/resident-advisor-top-100-djs-2015|magazine=Billboard|date=9 December 2015|access-date=9 December 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212032932/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6804505/resident-advisor-top-100-djs-2015|archive-date=12 December 2015}} and live acts{{cite magazine|title=Resident Advisor Releases Its Top 40 Live Acts of 2015|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6805248/resident-advisor-top-40-live-acts-2015|magazine=Billboard|date=10 December 2015|access-date=10 December 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151214160259/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6805248/resident-advisor-top-40-live-acts-2015|archive-date=14 December 2015}} of the year.

Resident Advisor ceased the polls in 2017 due to concerns about diversity and their growing influence on the music industry.{{cite web|title=Opinion: Why we're stopping the RA polls|url=https://ra.co/features/3105|website=Resident Advisor|date=22 November 2017}}

For 2017 and 2018, Resident Advisor published entirely non-ranked album lists.{{Cite web |title=2017's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA |url=https://ra.co/features/3134 |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Resident Advisor |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=2018's Best Albums · Feature ⟋ RA |url=https://ra.co/features/3384 |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Resident Advisor |language=en}}

For the 2010s, Resident Advisor published a largely non-ranked album list.{{Cite web |title=2010-19: Albums Of The Decade · Feature ⟋ RA |url=https://ra.co/features/3588 |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=Resident Advisor |language=en}}

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