“Alexa!”: How Are US Consumers Using Digital Assistants in 2025? Which Devices Are They Using Most?

In NuVoodoo’s Winter 2025 Consumer Digital Media Study, we surveyed over 2,900 U.S. consumers aged 14 and up, carefully balanced across key geographic and demographic variables. One emerging pattern stood out across generations: growing engagement with digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant. As voice interfaces become more deeply embedded across devices — from…

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Moneyball: Live, Local, Relevant

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We’ve been reviewing what we learned about personalities in our study for this year’s Country Radio Seminar as we prepare for a CRS 360 in the weeks ahead. At the big study presentation in Nashville, we showed that 3 out of 5 County radio listeners (1,185 of them in a nationwide sample of 1.500 Country…

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Moneyball: New Vehicle Infotainment Systems

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Knowing my involvement in the radio business, friends recently asked for help with the audio system in their new car. How do they access FM radio stations? Does their car have AM at all? What are the HD stations they talked about at the dealership? There aren’t any buttons, how do presets work? They tried…

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Moneyball: Banana Ball Reminds Radio …

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The radio business came to mind last week while watching the CBS 60 Minutes segment on Banana Ball last week. Depending on where you live and the media you consume, it’s completely possible you’re unaware of Banana Ball, yet the games sell out major league baseball stadiums and NFL football stadiums when the league tours…

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Moneyball: Make Your Content Sizzle

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The spring book is underway. Even if you’re among the lucky ones who were able to get a music test completed earlier this year and have your marketing plans underway, you may still have concerns about your morning show or other key talent taking the coaching notes you’ve been giving them steadily. Research can help.…

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Moneyball: Ca$h is King, but Fun is Infectious

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Last week we wrote about lower-cost options for contesting. Keeping in tune with Nielsen’s practices would draw stations in diary markets to fulfill contest prizes online – or, even better, in-app. As noted, some listeners may resist coming to a station location for a lower-value prize – but the instant gratification available with online fulfillment…

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New Data: Short Form Video Explodes in Popularity

Better than 90% of Gen Z’ers and Millennials now watch short form videos on platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.  Gen X comes close to these levels, and well over half of Boomers (and older) are watching short form video content as well.   In this two-part series, we’ll first review the latest NuVoodoo study…

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Advertising Effectiveness Part 2: How NuVoodoo’s Marketing Team Helps Clients Take Action on Results from Its 2025 Consumer Media Study

In this article series, we’re sharing newly captured consumer data from NuVoodoo’s recently-completed study measuring advertising-engagement rates across demographics for nearly two dozen ad channels. In Part 1, we took you through a deep dive into NuVoodoo’s study findings. Here in Part 2, we’ll share two case studies – examples of how the NuVoodoo digital…

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