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…

Morning Show Boot Camp happens on Wednesday and Thursday this week, though no one’s getting on a flight or planning to check into a hotel. Happily, there’ll be no catered food involved. Sadly, there’ll be no happy hour to raise a glass while catching up with old friends. Welcome to the virtual conference foretold in…