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

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Podcasts Come to Cars: What Radio Needs to Know

By Leigh Jacobs

Earlier this year NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 turned up the finding that among weekly podcast listeners, the most common thing to be doing while listening to podcasts is … driving. More than any other podcast statistic in the data, this one stands out. Podcasts are making their way into the car – of course…

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New 2022 Data for Podcasters from NuVoodoo

By Leigh Jacobs

Podcasting is becoming a big business with a low barrier for entry that can pay handsome rewards to creators with solid content and strategy. Nearly half of the total sample in the NuVoodoo January 2022 Digital Media Study are now using podcasts on a weekly basis. Our sample includes interviews with 3,298 persons, ages 14…

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Considering the Consideration Set (and Abandoning “P1”)

By Leigh Jacobs

Many years ago, a fine radio researcher observed, “Narrow focus yields broad results.” At the time this was said, the researcher was trying to convince the GM of a station to limit the demo of the study under discussion to adults 25-54, rather than persons 12+. Decades later we sometimes see music test screens that…

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Sports Radio vs. Sports Podcasts: Gen Z

By Leigh Jacobs

It was a couple of great days last week for the Barrett Sports Media Summit in NYC. Those who could not attend in person were able to log on to a virtual presentation of the event via the NuVoodoo Conference Cloud. Russ Gilbert and his team did an amazing job bringing the feel and function…

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A Message From Our CEO

By Carolyn Gilbert

In general, as individuals, we watch events around the world and understand that we’re not generally able do much to affect outcomes.  So we watch.  We see tragedies caused by nature.  We do what we can to help, limited as our ability to help might be.  We move on with our lives. A natural disaster…

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