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

By Leigh Jacobs / February 14, 2022

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 / February 7, 2022

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 / January 31, 2022

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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Omicron Update: January

By Leigh Jacobs / January 24, 2022

With the Omicron variant pushing COVID numbers far beyond last winter’s peak, we wanted to get fresh data on how coronavirus-weary people were feeling in the face of this new surge. So, we fielded a fresh sample of over 1500 adults ages 18-64 nationwide last week. We started with vaccination status, shown below compared to…

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Countdown: Top Findings from 2021 Studies, Findings 3, 2, and 1

By Leigh Jacobs / January 17, 2022

NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 is out of the field and our team is poring over the data and building the presentation we’ll be sharing in a free webinar on February 16. You can register for the webinar here. To get ready for that presentation, we’re reviewing top findings from the two NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects…

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Countdown: Top Findings from 2021 Studies, Findings 6 Through 4

By Leigh Jacobs / January 10, 2022

NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 nearly finished in the field now. We’re looking forward to diving into the new data and sharing it with the industry in a free webinar in February 16. To get ready for that presentation, we’re reviewing our top findings from the two NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Studies conducted in 2021. Last…

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Countdown: Top Findings from 2021 Studies, Findings 10 Thru 7

By Leigh Jacobs / January 3, 2022

NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 is in the field now. We’re looking forward to diving into the new data and sharing it with the industry in a free webinar in February. For now, let’s review the top findings from both NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Studies conducted in 2021. This week, we’re sharing findings ten through seven.…

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Last Words on 2021 from Carolyn Gilbert

By Leigh Jacobs / December 13, 2021

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 / December 6, 2021

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 / November 29, 2021

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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