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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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Last Words on 2021 from Carolyn Gilbert

By Leigh Jacobs

TIME FLIES WHEN IT TAKES AN ETERNITY How can it be December already? Where did 2021 go? We have been living in COVID world forever. It’s fascinating how we can simultaneously think about how quickly time flies and how interminable phases of our lives can be.  That is certainly true of the last two years.…

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Oh My, Oh My (The Omicron Variant)

By Leigh Jacobs

We thought the Covid update data we’d written about just before Thanksgiving would be our last NuVoodoo Quick-Turn Study for 2021, but we changed our minds when news of the Omicron variant broke over Thanksgiving weekend. To get an initial read on reactions to the discovery of this highly-mutated new variant, we let the initial…

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Covid Worries: Are the Unvaccinated Concerned?

By Leigh Jacobs

Last week we showed data from the latest NuVoodoo Quick-Turn Study about Covid vaccination levels, the activities people are ready to resume as we enter the holiday season and their attitudes about masks and vaccination requirements. This study of 2,105 Adults 18+ nationwide from a little earlier this month showed considerable anticipation of lifestyle activities…

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Pre-Holiday Covid Update & a New RPS Study Coming

By Leigh Jacobs

As radio looks at relating to audiences across the Thanksgiving holiday and the Christmas shopping season beyond, a brand-new NuVoodoo Quick-Turn Study of 2,105 Adults 18+ nationwide shows lots of Covid booster doses already in arms and considerable anticipation of lifestyle activities. These new data were collected November 12-16 and show 75% at least partially-vaccinated,…

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More or Less? Looks Like It’s Both

By Jeri Fields

The shelves weren’t – middle of the pandemic, no toilet paper in sight and Lysol rationing – empty. But over the last couple of months, we noticed some ‘holes’ – bare spots on shelves where our favorite brand, flavor, or scent would typically live. We saw car lots light on inventory and paid twice as…

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