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Leigh Jacobs

Is Your Future Device-Agnostic?

By Leigh Jacobs / April 26, 2021

Last week’s All Access Audio Summit was a great event. A hearty congrats to Joel Denver and his crew (along with Russ Gilbert and the team from NuVoodoo Conference Cloud, who produced the event). While I absolutely missed seeing folks in person, the two days of sessions packed a lot of information. And, though lacking…

Coronavirus Vaccines: A Sticking Point?

By Leigh Jacobs / April 19, 2021

The All Access Audio Summit starts on April 21 and the NuVoodoo session, “Big All Access Audio Summit Research Presentation” is part of the opening day schedule. We’ve pulled in data from the 3,329 respondents in our Ratings Prospects Study 17 from earlier this year, 1,099 respondents freshly fielded in one of our new ASAP…

Got Radio?

By Leigh Jacobs / April 12, 2021

We’re just a bit more than a week away from the “Big All Access Audio Summit Research Presentation” that NuVoodoo is prepping for the opening day of the All Access Audio Summit on April 21. Last week I said we were pulling in data from our most recent Ratings Prospects Studies along with questions we’ve…

Vaccinated Yet?

By Leigh Jacobs / April 5, 2021

A little more than two weeks away from the All Access Audio Summit, we’re prepping our presentation from NuVoodoo for the opening day, April 21. It’s a virtual conference – so there’s no need for vaccinations or negative tests – which is great. It also means there’s no opportunity for in-person camaraderie, but Joel Denver…

Goodbye P1. Hello Consideration Set

By Leigh Jacobs / March 29, 2021

Back in the late 80’s Arbitron’s Gary Donahue gave radio the term “P1.” The term “P1” literally refers to the station that gets the most quarter hours in a specific diary (or now from a specific meter in PPM). It’s simply an observation of listener behavior; it doesn’t mean that the listener has an emotional…

Talk Topic Testing Results

By Leigh Jacobs / March 22, 2021

We were delighted to present a quick study at last week’s Talk Show Boot Camp. Don Anthony & Gabe Hobbs put on a great event every year and this year’s was no exception (despite the virtual presentation we’re all becoming accustomed to attending). If you missed it, you can register and watch the recorded sessions…

What Radio Can Learn from Buskers

By Leigh Jacobs / March 15, 2021

It’s been over a year since I’ve been on a subway platform in New York, but I always appreciated buskers and thought there were lessons to be learned for radio. Styles and repertoire more attuned to the biggest population segments on the subway platform often generated bigger audiences. Better production values sometimes generated bigger audiences…

Group Contesting: Friend or Foe?

By Leigh Jacobs / March 8, 2021

We wanted to check in on the state of sometimes-maligned group contests. In NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 17, fielded at the beginning of this year, we asked a trio of questions. First, we wanted to know if respondents were aware of the practice at all. Then, among those aware of group contests, we wanted to…

What If You Had a Hammer and a Screwdriver?

By Leigh Jacobs / March 1, 2021

“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Those are the words of psychologist Abraham Maslow (better remembered for his “hierarchy of needs”). In tighter-than-ever budget times we’re seeing more music tests going into the field with swollen sets of question groups.…

New Marketing Tool: OTT-TV

By Leigh Jacobs / February 22, 2021

The final livestream of the latest NuVoodoo webinar is Monday, February 22 at Noon Pacific. It includes our latest data on: Smart speakers, national and local contests, marketing messages, social media, advertising channels, podcasts & streaming and more. We cover the information in less than 40 minutes and stay on as long as needed to…