Before Covid-19 the radio business was thinking a lot about doing things differently, making every budget dollar count and being more agile in the face of competitive threats. Those concerns won’t decrease as we start to move past the pandemic. These days, perceptual studies are less likely to be annual checkups and more likely to…

Early in March, Carolyn Gilbert and I presented study findings at what would turn out to be the last in-person conference of 2020: Talk Show Boot Camp. Some folks had already chosen to skip attending due to the looming threat of the new pandemic. Those of us who did show up were bumping elbows instead…

Some folks are trimming trees. Some folks are programming non-stop holiday music. At NuVoodoo, December means we’re working on the questionnaire for the next Ratings Prospects Study. Just after the first of the year, we’ll begin collecting thousands of interviews for NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study Seventeen and we want your input! In this year of…

PRE-coronavirus, some of the greatest successes for the NuVoodoo marketing team came from calling businesses about workday-related cash contests. Past NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Studies have shown that huge amounts of AQH come from listening at places of business during the workday. Reaching one or two heavy listeners at work with a meter or diary had…

NuVoodoo marketing guru Mike O’Connor has identified a new tactic that’s helping our clients play the Nielsen game successfully – despite the battlefield shifting dramatically since March. With so many working from home, we’ve put office telemarketing on the shelf and dedicated more of our clients’ budgets to reaching listeners AT HOME. Since the lockdown…

This pandemic slog is tough on everyone and, until recently, I hadn’t thought about how hard it is on single folks who had been going on dates at the start of 2020. One single friend remarked that, as hard as it’s been, at least there’ve been no bad dates in eight months – the ones…

While the news has been dominated by the election, the increase in coronavirus cases ebbs back into the headlines in every slack moment. NuVoodoo has been tracking concern with the virus and a host of other issues related to the pandemic since early March. The news of growing cases seemed like a good opportunity to…

Every Halloween morning for over fifty years we’ve been pulling the NuVoodoo Christmas moose, Medford Mike, out of his enclosure to forecast when stations should start All Christmas programming. The legend goes that if Mike sees his shadow, stations should begin Christmas programming before Thanksgiving. If he doesn’t see his shadow, they should wait until…