Podcast Promotion (Another Advantage for Radio)

For the rest of 2022 and into the new year, NuVoodoo is releasing videos counting down the most important things we learned about podcasting in 2022. The countdown pairs up qualitative video interviews with podcast listeners and deep quantitative data from our podcast study this summer with nearly 1,700 regular podcast listeners nationwide. The combination…

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The Twelve Plays of Christmas – Brand Playlists & Holiday Music

T’is the Season for radio stations to decide if and when to jettison their regular formats in favor of Christmas music, brands to gear up for Black Friday and the holiday season, and enough email blasts, sms messages, and push notifications telling us about incredible holiday savings to crash Twitter, (not that it’s hard to…

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Thanks and Giving

Thanksgiving

As we reflect on the year and what we’re thankful for, our clients are certainly at the top of the list. We are excited and motivated by the chance to truly advance and support so many different companies in such unique and innovative ways. We know the importance of driving measurable results for your customers,…

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In The kNOW: Ho-Ho-How Do We Feel About the Ho-Ho-Holidays?

Stressed Santa Claus preparing gifts

Curiosity got the best of us as Halloween faded and Thanksgiving loomed for the first relatively “normal” holiday season since 2019.  How are people feeling about the holidays this year?  Who’s more excited?  Who is less excited?  Are we Scroogier or Tiny Timmier?  Have our shopping habits changed for good?  With inflation and the threat…

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Big Advantages for Radio in the Podcast Space

NuVoodoo is releasing a series of videos counting down the top nine things we learned about podcasting in 2022. The videos do a great job pairing up the videos captured in our qualitative sessions with podcast listeners and the quantitative data from our podcast study this summer with nearly 1,700 regular podcast listeners nationwide. You…

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Holiday Shopping Outlook Depends Where You Live

Christmas Shopping Online

A fresh NuVoodoo QuickTurn Study fielded this month gives us fresh indicators concerning the holiday season. This new study includes 1,889 Adults 18-64 nationwide and shows strong anticipation of the upcoming vaccinated holidays. Admittedly, that holiday anticipation is down a bit from what we saw in 2021 (when the “last year” was the pre-vaccination 2020…

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Christmas Music NOW?

Santa Claus on the phone

A fresh NuVoodoo QuickTurn Study fielded just a few days after Halloween gives us indicators of what could be an early season for Christmas music. As you’re reading this, many stations have already flipped the Santa switch. To benefit programmers who can’t afford a custom study to help them make their Christmas programming choices, we…

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New Country vs Catalog Country: Which Wins in a Faceoff?

Given a choice between two Country songs – one newer, one older – which would Country fans choose? And what does that say about the vintage of playlists on Country radio? That’s the mission we undertook for last week’s CRS360 webinar for the folks at Country Radio Seminar. ICYMI, you can watch the SONG WARS…

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In The kNOW: It’s that time of year again…or is it?

Happy man enjoying in window shopping for Christmas holidays.

For this month’s ‘In the kNOW’ we wanted to challenge ourselves. Just how fast could we understand consumer point of view (CPOV) on a trending topic? We used our own ‘Quick Turn Qual’ product to investigate consumer sentiment around shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We posed an open-ended question for about an hour…

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