In designing the two national consumer studies that NuVoodoo fielded for 2016, whenever possible we wanted to ask new questions and probe different aspects of what listeners get from our brands.  With buzz in the digital press about “curated playlists” on Spotify and some of its competitors, as well as the mysterious algorithm that Pandora…

PD’s have an amazing range of tools today to help choose which songs to play. All provide interesting information that can be deployed in valuable ways. While there’s a clear benefit in having insight into which songs are going to be hits in the near future, there’s also a clear need to understanding which songs…

For 2016, NuVoodoo fielded two national consumer studies.  One focuses on programming issues, in part tracking some of the questions we’ve asked in previous studies to look at consumer satisfaction with terrestrial radio as well as usage and perceptions of the ever-growing competition for consumer ears coming through the internet and mobile internet.  The second…

You’ve seen the meme on Facebook concerning just about every occupation under the sun: “Being a [fill in occupation] is easy, it’s like riding a bike – except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire and you’re in hell.” But, that sentiment certainly should have been written originally about being…

Go back far enough in the history of music radio and you find deejays who picked the music on their shows.  These were music-connected people first and entertainers second.  To be sure, those who rose the highest were entertainers in their own right, but it was their connection to the music, their understanding of the…