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Podcast Commercials: Effective or Skippable?
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…
Read MoreIf We Ask the Questions We’ve Always Asked
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…
Read MoreMusic Research Options for Uncertain Times
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.…
Read MoreIn the kNOW: Where We Stand and How We Keep Standing!
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…
Read MorePre-Predictions About Holiday Shopping
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,…
Read MoreWhat Candidates Can Learn From Brands
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…
Read MoreCrunch Time: Fall Book Marketing for Uncertain Times
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…
Read MoreOne 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…
Read MoreOne of Four Things That Make Listeners Crazy About Podcasts
A recording of NuVoodoo’s presentation at Podcast Movement 2022, “Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)” will be posted soon at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. We collected a lot of opinions and a lot of data to build the presentation, starting with a round of qualitative interviews in late July and moving…
Read MoreTectonic Shifts at Podcast Movement 2022
Last week found Carolyn Gilbert, Jeri Fields, and me at Podcast Movement 2022. Our presentation, “Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)” was well received. For those who couldn’t make it Dallas, we’ll be posting a webinar version of the presentation in the coming weeks at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. Our presentation…
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