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Leigh Jacobs
Nielsen officially introduced their new PPM wearables last week (to augment/replace the pager-style PPM 360 meters). Panelists will soon have the option to wear the new Nielsen meter configured as a: Wristband (to complement the watch/smartwatch/Fitbit they’re already wearing) Pendant (because carrying the old design pager doesn’t make you look weird enough in 2022) Clip-on…
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Among the measures in the annual UN-sponsored World Happiness Report released last week are three questions used to quantify positive emotions. They use questions about experiencing (1) laughter and (2) enjoyment during the previous day, and a question about learning or doing something interesting during the previous day. As I read those questions, I thought…
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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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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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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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Almost two years to the day of my last in-person conference (which was Talk Show Boot Camp, just days before the world locked down in 2020), last week had Carolyn Gilbert, Jeri Fields (NuVoodoo’s new VP/Research Insights), and me presenting on stage at Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. We were proud to conduct a wide-ranging…
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If you missed last week’s webinar where we showed the latest data from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospect Study 19, you can view a recording of the session at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. It’s a massive study conducted last month and includes 3,298 respondents, ages 14-54, across all PPM markets. That wide swath of ages means our sample incorporates parts…
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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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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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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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