In The kNOW: Retail Holidays Offer ‘Prime’ Opportunity

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Prime Day has come and gone; early this year. And this year, in particular, we noticed other retailers jumping in and riding the Prime Day coattails. There were articles galore discussing the competing Prime Day deals from Walmart, Target and more. And we were curious to know how these other retailers might fare on a…

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Reboot the Commute With Strong Contesting

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Ratings Prospects Study 18 goes public this week with the first of the NuVoodoo Summer Webinar Series slated for Wednesday, July 21 at 1 PM EDT. In less than 45 minutes, we’ll cover topics essential to radio for capitalizing on rising PUMM and PUR levels and leveraging increased average quarter hour ratings. And we’ll stay…

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Join in the Fun of Fiesta Hermosa, No Matter Where You Are!

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Fiesta Hermosa is back! While stay at home orders prevented this twice-a-year art and music showcase from occurring in 2020, the event that has traditionally attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the beautiful beach city, will return Labor Day Weekend 2021. It’s returning with a couple of (really great) tweaks. While restrictions related to…

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Welcome Returning Commuters: Reboot the Commute

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Two weeks ago we released initial findings from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 18 showing increasing numbers of people expecting to resume their commute to work over the coming months. That’s good news for morning radio especially; 21% of our June study sample of over 3,000 respondents ages 14-54 say they’ve “gotten out of the habit…

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Solutions for an Increasingly “Tracking-Free” Environment

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Our latest video, part 2 in our series about the declination of individual online and mobile tracking and what it means for digital marketing campaigns today and in the future, will cut through the noise and bring you up to date in an efficient half-hour watch. It’s a 28-minute-deep-dive but worth your time. Watch here.…

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Reboot the Commute: In-Car Audio System Impact

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Last week we released initial findings from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 18 showing increasing numbers of people expecting to resume their commute to work over the coming months. That’s good news for radio, since time spent commuting equals time spent listening to radio for many. Additionally, radio gets better usage and TSL among those working…

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News on the Reboot of the Commute

We’ve started crunching the numbers in NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 18 and already see results suggesting radio has reason to be optimistic about increased listening in the months ahead. In many markets, PUMM hit a high for 2021 with the release of the May PPM monthly as states relax COVID restrictions and listeners head back…

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What If You Could Afford a Perceptual Study & An OMT?

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“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail,” said Abraham Maslow (better remembered for his “hierarchy of needs”). We’re seeing more music tests going into the field with swollen sets of question groups as programmers try to use a music test to…

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In the kNOW: Shopping of the Future is NOW!

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The pandemic brought about many changes, the least of which was the necessity to find a new way to buy the things we need. And many turned to a place we’d never gone before, online. How was the online shopping experience for items we usually bought on our weekly trips to the grocery or Big…

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Track Me…Track Me Not

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What’s this? Companies may actually start taking the privacy of its users seriously? Not exactly, but it’s a start. What you’ve seen in the news is true. In late April, Apple introduced an update to iOS that will allow you to prevent apps from tracking your behavior and selling your personal data. Called App Tracking…

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