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NuVoodoo's executive team regularly publishes thoughts, data, and analysis here and in media industry publications and trade magazines.

Alexa, Play (My Favorite Radio Station) for Me

By Leigh Jacobs

Last week we wrote about using the Amazon Echo (or Google Home) to listen to radio in your home. While there are a few venerable clock radios still on nightstands and some homes may have a Bose Wave Radio lurking somewhere, there are fewer and fewer radios in homes today. Among music station P1’s across…

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Radio at Home?

By Leigh Jacobs

A few weeks back, we wrote about the experience of hosting a focus group of Millennial-aged Country music fans at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. Asked if they have a radio at home, one respondent memorably answered, “There’s one at my mom’s house.” A couple of the panelists admitted they do have a radio…

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What Should You Be Doing About Podcasting?

By Leigh Jacobs

NuVoodoo’s Carolyn Gilbert was with Steve Goldstein from Amplifi Media at Talk Show Boot Camp in Atlanta last week sharing some findings from the first-ever NuVoodoo Podcast Study. Starting from a sample of nearly 9,000 Persons 14-54 across all PPM markets, we drilled down to just under 3,000 respondents based on at least regular, monthly…

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Success with Millennial Listeners

By Leigh Jacobs

Last week, we wrote about a focus group we conducted in front of an audience at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. Millennial Country music fans talked about their listening habits (smartphone-centric and channel agnostic) and their relationships with radio (car-centric and relatively passionless). We wanted to conduct the focus group to see if the…

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Do Younger Country Music Fans Love Radio?

By Leigh Jacobs

In school, you’re taught to begin consumer research with qualitative research, like focus groups. You unearth consumer perceptions that might be lurking out there among lots of people. Then, you develop a quantitative research project, with a larger, scalable sample, to determine what the actual percentages of people are who share those opinions. Last week…

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