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Leigh Jacobs

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NuVoodoo Research for Radio Sales

By Leigh Jacobs / August 17, 2020

An abundance of thanks to our friends at the RAB for a great session on our NuVoodoo webinar last week as part of their ongoing Open for Business series. We were solidly focused on radio sales efforts for this webinar, fueled by consumer insights gathered in our daily interviews conducted to keep track of coronavirus…

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Writing Business in the New Abnormal

By Leigh Jacobs / August 10, 2020

This time NuVoodoo has spun up a webinar to help folks on the sales side of the building. Marketing in the New Abnormal for radio sales professionals is this Wednesday, August 12 at 1 PM Eastern as part of the RAB’s ongoing Open for Business webinar series. In about 30 minutes, Carolyn Gilbert and I…

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Selling Radio in the New Abnormal

By Leigh Jacobs / August 3, 2020

Less than two months ago, people in the Northeast U.S. were likely to be the most cautious about venturing outside their homes amidst the coronavirus. But, a week’s worth of 12,247 interviews, July 20-26, shows those in the Northeast only slightly less relaxed than those in the Midwest (part of the on-going testing that NuVoodoo…

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Coronavirus & Radio Sales: Is “Normal” Any Closer?

By Leigh Jacobs / July 27, 2020

Remember February? Heck, remember June? Even in the hard-hit northeast, states were allowing more latitude to citizens. Folks were enjoying occasional meals out, visiting with friends, anticipating a return to some greater degree of normalcy. On June 16, extreme concern about coronavirus had dropped to just 30% in the daily testing NuVoodoo began on March…

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S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g Promotional Budgets for Fall

By Leigh Jacobs / July 20, 2020

In our recent NuVoodoo webinar, “Marketing in the New Abnormal,” along with a look at how listeners’ lives are changing through the pandemic, we dived deep into all aspects of contesting. Knowing that budgets for contesting this fall will be stretched tight (or non-existent), we focused on ways to make the most of whatever resources…

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Music Testing & Coronavirus

By Leigh Jacobs / July 13, 2020

Thanks to all those who attended the latest NuVoodoo webinar last Wednesday, “Marketing in the New Abnormal.” If you weren’t able to attend, a recording of the webinar lives at NuVoodoo.com/webinars. During the webinar we presented a trove of data concerning how people are feeling about their lives in this uncertain time and how to…

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Did Music Tastes Shift During Coronavirus?

By Leigh Jacobs / July 6, 2020

We’re getting ready to present data from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study XVI, fielded in late June, along with insights gained from our ongoing studies concerning the coronavirus. With so many people adopting different routines since March, it’s natural to believe that their music tastes might have changed. So, we asked the 3,700+ respondents, ages 14-54,…

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Marketing & Contesting for Fall 2020

By Leigh Jacobs / June 29, 2020

With a holiday weekend between now and then, at NuVoodoo we’re hard at work on our July 8 webinar: Marketing in the New Abnormal. Along with insights gleaned from the on-going coronavirus tracking studies we’ve been conducting since March 9, we’ll be incorporating data from our just-completed Ratings Prospects Study XVI. The new study incorporates…

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Marketing & Contesting for Fall 2020

By Leigh Jacobs / June 29, 2020

With a holiday weekend between now and then, at NuVoodoo we’re hard at work on our July 8 webinar: Marketing in the New Abnormal. Along with insights gleaned from the on-going coronavirus tracking studies we’ve been conducting since March 9, we’ll be incorporating data from our just-completed Ratings Prospects Study XVI. The new study incorporates…

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Welcome to Marketing in the New AbNoRmaL

By Leigh Jacobs / June 22, 2020

Confronting the uncertainty of the months ahead is critical to radio’s survival. This fall, advertisers and agencies will grow increasingly selective about who “gets on the buy,” and the pressure to deliver ratings will be intense. At the same time, managers and programmers will be faced with budget constraints and fewer resources to get the…

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