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

PPM Wearables: The Importance & Pitfalls of Contests

By Leigh Jacobs

With Nielsen planning to convert 50-75% of the PPM panel to the new PPM Wearables by the end of 2022 (and with the balance changing in 2023), it’s time for radio to prepare for the changes ahead. I’ll go back to what NuVoodoo marketing guru PJ Kling said of the coming changes, “Let’s get in…

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PPM Wearables: Let’s Get in Front of It

By Leigh Jacobs

Nielsen says, “Approximately 50-75% of the panel is expected to convert to PPM Wearables by year-end 2022 with the balance coming in 2023.” While that’s a BIG change in measurement, they’ve done their homework making careful observations of in-tab rate, carry time, undock and docking times for the new wearables. Their data shows all of…

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Programming No Longer a Zero-Sum Game

By Leigh Jacobs

It’s time to rethink station music test samples – and it’s time to rethink programming strategy. If you’ve been paying attention to the research we’ve released at NuVoodoo (or that which nearly all of our competitors have released) so far this year, it’s apparent that broadcast radio is facing deeper challenges than ever before in…

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Rebuilding Radio Stations as Brands

By Leigh Jacobs

At the All Access Audio Summit last week, NuVoodoo leader Carolyn Gilbert, Jeri Fields (our new VP/Research Insights), and I presented “Re-engineering a 747 at 30,000 Feet.” We started with tips for playing for present-day ratings success – and then pivoted to talking about the future. As Carolyn noted, “We don’t get to write the…

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Surviving Change May Require Introducing Even MORE Change

By Carolyn Gilbert

We watched a webinar last week from a major research company enthusiastically touting the rollout of a new piece of technology.  They’d been working on it for four years.  In 2022, this means that it is an old piece of technology. NuVoodoo has traditionally been a company, primarily serving an insular industry where the executives…

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