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

Christmas Shopping Online

Holiday Shopping Outlook Depends Where You Live

By Leigh Jacobs

A fresh NuVoodoo QuickTurn Study fielded this month gives us fresh indicators concerning the holiday season. This new study includes 1,889 Adults 18-64 nationwide and shows strong anticipation of the upcoming vaccinated holidays. Admittedly, that holiday anticipation is down a bit from what we saw in 2021 (when the “last year” was the pre-vaccination 2020…

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Christmas Music NOW?

By Leigh Jacobs

A fresh NuVoodoo QuickTurn Study fielded just a few days after Halloween gives us indicators of what could be an early season for Christmas music. As you’re reading this, many stations have already flipped the Santa switch. To benefit programmers who can’t afford a custom study to help them make their Christmas programming choices, we…

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New Country vs Catalog Country: Which Wins in a Faceoff?

By Leigh Jacobs

Given a choice between two Country songs – one newer, one older – which would Country fans choose? And what does that say about the vintage of playlists on Country radio? That’s the mission we undertook for last week’s CRS360 webinar for the folks at Country Radio Seminar. ICYMI, you can watch the SONG WARS…

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When Black Friday Comes How To Stake Your Claim: 5 Tips to Maximize E-Commerce Sales This Holiday Season

By Russ Gilbert

As fun as it is risking life and limb to re-enact the Hunger Games each year at America’s retail outlets on Black Friday, for some reason an increasing number of Americans prefer shopping online from the safety and comfort of their homes (for thoughts on that, see our In the kNOW article this month). Here…

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In The kNOW: It’s that time of year again…or is it?

By Jeri Fields

For this month’s ‘In the kNOW’ we wanted to challenge ourselves. Just how fast could we understand consumer point of view (CPOV) on a trending topic? We used our own ‘Quick Turn Qual’ product to investigate consumer sentiment around shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We posed an open-ended question for about an hour…

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