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Surviving Change May Require Introducing Even MORE Change
We watched a webinar last week from a major research company enthusiastically touting the rollout of a new piece of technology. They’d been working on it for four years. In 2022, this means that it is an old piece of technology. NuVoodoo has traditionally been a company, primarily serving an insular industry where the executives…
Read MoreHappy “Bring Your Son or Daughter to Work Day”
National “Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day” is quickly approaching. In 2022, we celebrate the holiday on Thursday, April 28th, and in a post-pandemic world, things might look a bit different this year. If you are back in an office setting, I encourage you to participate in this tradition as it always seems…
Read MoreRe-engineering a 747 at 30,000 Feet
The All Access Audio Summit kicks off on Wednesday this week and NuVoodoo will be there on opening day. “Re-engineering a 747 at 30,000 Feet” is set for Wednesday, April 20 at 1 PM EDT/10 AM PDT. We’re showing the challenges facing radio today, how to play the game at its best for current ratings…
Read MoreNew PPM Wearables to Replace up to 75% of the Panel by Year’s End
Nielsen officially introduced their new PPM wearables in a webinar just before April Fool’s Day and the NuVoodoo team gathered this past week to compare notes about the webinar. You’ll find a 15-minute video of the conversation on YouTube. The conversation included NuVoodoo owner and president, Carolyn Gilbert, our marketing gurus, Mike O’Connor and PJ…
Read MoreWhat a Week: PPM Wearables and CRS 360
Nielsen officially introduced their new PPM wearables last week (to augment/replace the pager-style PPM 360 meters). Panelists will soon have the option to wear the new Nielsen meter configured as a: Wristband (to complement the watch/smartwatch/Fitbit they’re already wearing) Pendant (because carrying the old design pager doesn’t make you look weird enough in 2022) Clip-on…
Read MoreI Stream, You Stream, We All Stream with Live Streams
Wise or not, America is reopening, ending mask mandates, and essentially returning to what was once loosely defined as “normal.” Even with pandemic restrictions loosening, (at least for the moment), it’s hard to deny that the media landscape has shifted dramatically in the time since we all learned words like “social distancing” and “hydroxychloroquine,” while…
Read MoreProgramming for Increased Endorphin Production
Among the measures in the annual UN-sponsored World Happiness Report released last week are three questions used to quantify positive emotions. They use questions about experiencing (1) laughter and (2) enjoyment during the previous day, and a question about learning or doing something interesting during the previous day. As I read those questions, I thought…
Read MoreCryptocurrency: Is it ‘virtually’ inevitable?
Standing in the grocery store line the other day, I overheard a conversation between a father and teenage son about a guy who bought two pizzas with 10,000 Bitcoins back in 2010. At the time, 10K in Bitcoin was only worth about $40. According to the son, if the man had just kept those 10,000…
Read MorePodcasts Come to Cars: What Radio Needs to Know
Earlier this year NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19 turned up the finding that among weekly podcast listeners, the most common thing to be doing while listening to podcasts is … driving. More than any other podcast statistic in the data, this one stands out. Podcasts are making their way into the car – of course…
Read MoreNew 2022 Data for Podcasters from NuVoodoo
Podcasting is becoming a big business with a low barrier for entry that can pay handsome rewards to creators with solid content and strategy. Nearly half of the total sample in the NuVoodoo January 2022 Digital Media Study are now using podcasts on a weekly basis. Our sample includes interviews with 3,298 persons, ages 14…
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