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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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RPS 19: Has App Location Tracking Hurt Social Media Usage?

By Leigh Jacobs

Earlier this month, Facebook took a big earnings hit. NuVoodoo’s Mike O’Connor notes that “Facebook’s parent company, Meta, blamed Apple, saying that Apple’s stricter security measures would cost $10 billion dollars in lost advertising in 2022. That admission is the most concrete data point so far about the impact of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature…

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RPS 19 Headline: Radio Usage While Working Out of Home

By Leigh Jacobs

Those who commute to a job outside the home are more likely to listen to radio during the workday than listeners working from home. That’s a major headline from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospect Study 19, fielded early last month. We’re presenting results free to the radio industry on February 16 at 1PM Eastern. We are capacity-limited,…

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NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 Preview

By Leigh Jacobs

We’re getting ready to present NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 on Wednesday, February 16 at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. You can reserve your spot for the free webinar at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. We’ll be maintaining our focus on the type of person likely to say “yes” to Nielsen; we refer to these respondents as “RPS Yes.”…

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In The kNOW: The Unvaccinated: A Closer Look

By Jeri Fields

Many of us here at NuVoodoo recently got our SECOND round of COVID. Despite being vaccinated and boosted. It seems we all know someone that has now either gotten COVID a second time or has had it despite being vaccinated. But none of us personally know a vaccinated person who’s become seriously, hospital, ill. We…

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The Omicron Factor: Stats on Willingness to Attend In-Person Events vs. Online and Hybrid

By Russ Gilbert

Events in Q1 2022 are more of a mixed bag than a trick-or-treater gets in a neighborhood featuring vegans, new age health nuts and that one awesome house that hands out the full-sized Snickers bars. No one is really tracking event statistics at the macro level, but anecdotally we had most of the Hollywood awards…

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