Articles

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

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Morning Radio in the New Abnormal

By Leigh Jacobs

There’s simply been nothing “normal” to discuss about much of anything since the middle of March. When we were asked to present at this year’s virtual Morning Show Boot Camp, which happens next week (9/23-24), our brains immediately went to trying to put some quantitative numbers behind the anecdotes that swarm around discussions of morning…

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The PPM Headphone Adjustment. Finally.

By Leigh Jacobs

Back during the introduction of PPM (when it was a partnership between Arbitron and Nielsen), some of us fretted about quarter hours that could be lost because of headphone listening. Arbitron assured us that panelists would just have to use a dongle to connect their audio source to the meter and then plug their headphones…

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Announcing NuVoodoo Consumer Insights

By Leigh Jacobs

NuVoodoo Consumer Insights is live and ready. It’s a sales-focused research solution that collects local samples quickly in markets of all sizes to help get meetings and close deals with prospective advertisers. Our research operations team sets up the output in a custom dashboard with presentation-ready results: as the sample fills up, you can literally…

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What Radio Sales Teams Need Is…

By Leigh Jacobs

An enlightening part of preparing for our recent webinar for RAB members was surveying that group of sales professionals about what they do and what help they need. In all, some 259 radio sales professionals gave us feedback. Despite their frustration with having to prove to prospects over and over again that people really DO…

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NuVoodoo Research for Radio Sales

By Leigh Jacobs

An abundance of thanks to our friends at the RAB for a great session on our NuVoodoo webinar last week as part of their ongoing Open for Business series. We were solidly focused on radio sales efforts for this webinar, fueled by consumer insights gathered in our daily interviews conducted to keep track of coronavirus…

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