Articles

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

Who Replies to Social Media Comments at Your Station Now?

By Leigh Jacobs

The just-completed Ninth NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study shows the connection between radio and Social Media continuing to grow. In this latest study, the overall numbers continue to grow for listeners paying more attention to stations that interact with them in the social space. This new study spanned over 5,600 respondents 14-54 across all PPM markets.…

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Boardwalk or Mediterranean Avenue?

By Leigh Jacobs

In the game, Monopoly, the rent for the lowest-tier property, Mediterranean Avenue, is $250 when it has a hotel. The rent for Boardwalk, with a hotel, is $2000. At $2000 per visit, that’s not a hotel – that’s a destination resort! Destination resort: one of those places that offers more than lodging, that offers an…

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Presets: A Thing of the Past or More Important Than Ever?

By Leigh Jacobs

Remember simplicity? You turned on the TV and picked through the choices on the major broadcast networks or, perhaps, a handful of basic cable channels. The broadcast network news anchors and the local daily paper were the unchallenged truth of news facts. The radio turned on when you started the car and if that station…

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The Second Law of (Entertainment) Thermodynamics

By Leigh Jacobs

Comparing NBC’s New Celebrity Apprentice host, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the former Celebrity Apprentice host, (now POTUS) Donald Trump, Time magazine observed, “Trump, in his ability to get attention for himself, seems to understand something NBC does not: that as much as the audience may want to see real, authentically flawed people, it demands above all…

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What Will You Do Differently in 2017?

By Leigh Jacobs

Managers are increasingly under scrutiny to “do things differently” – and rightly so. As we’ve observed before, Einstein is said to have defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. As radio adapts to its latest set of new competitors and embraces the possibilities of new technology, it’s important…

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