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Last week we had the privilege of showing additional data from the podcast studies we did at NuVoodoo during the summer. We were at the Podcast Futures conference within the NAB Show New York. Compared to the content-creator focus of what we’d shown at Podcast Movement in August, our New York presentation went focused on…

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NuVoodoo Webinar for Country Radio Seminar, October 25

NuVoodoo is back with a fresh webinar for the folks at Country Radio Seminar as part of their CRS360 series. We’re calling it Song Wars and it’s coming up on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 25. Register for the free webinar here. For this new webinar we imagined the decision that’s been faced by listeners…

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Podcast Commercials: Effective or Skippable?

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At Podcast Movement in August, we tailored our presentation to podcast creators, particularly independent producers engaged in the hard work of building audiences one listener at a time. At the Podcast Futures conference on October 19 at the NAB Show, we focused on the commercial inventory within podcasts. We began our podcast work with a…

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If We Ask the Questions We’ve Always Asked

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We’ll get the answers we’ve always gotten and make the same decisions we’ve always made. When more stations could afford to budget for annual perceptual studies, that every-year repetition allowed the stations to eliminate questions that didn’t yield actionable answers – and allowed additional explorations into new territory. Today, many of the studies that get…

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Music Research Options for Uncertain Times

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Last week I laid out marketing options for stations that are just getting their budget approvals as the fall book is underway. I also had the chance to video chat last week with NuVoodoo marketing guru Mike O’Connor about the newest additions to our marketing arsenal. A recording of that session is available on YouTube.…

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In the kNOW: Where We Stand and How We Keep Standing!

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There’s a LOT going on right now. Which means there’s plenty to weigh on people’s minds. And hopefully, we’ve all found ways to cope with the stress and anxiety that comes with worry. But with all the different current issues on the local, state, national and global stages happening, we were curious, “What do people…

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Pre-Predictions About Holiday Shopping

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With the heart of the holiday shopping season still a couple of months away, NuVoodoo interviewed 350 adults 18+ nationwide about their expectations as they may be in the early stages of considering their purchases. We wanted to get an idea of how consumers imagine their shopping this holiday season as they face higher prices,…

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What Candidates Can Learn From Brands

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While it’s true that now, more than ever, the election cycle is never-ending, there actually is an election coming up in less than two months, which has candidates and causes looking for more and more ways to cut through. Typically, when someone talks about “their brand,” my eyes roll back far enough into my head…

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Crunch Time: Fall Book Marketing for Uncertain Times

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The fall book started last week, but many station operators are holding on to their marketing dollars as long as possible. Should you find yourself in that group, you still have strong marketing options to help you maximize fall ratings. While production time takes direct mail and traditional outdoor off the table, strong marketing channels…

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One of Six Things Listeners Love About Podcasts

A recording of NuVoodoo’s presentation from Podcast Movement 2022, “Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)” is available at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. Our data is the result of quantitative interviews with nearly 1,700 respondents who listened to podcasts at least an hour in the prior week, gleaned from a wider universe…

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