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The CDC Sounded the “All-Clear.” Are Listeners Ready to Get Back to Normal?
NuVoodoo Study just back from the field suggests the transition might take some time
Read MoreWhose Programming Are You Countering?
Radio is not the only heritage medium working hard to find its feet as the world is shifting. Jimmy Kimmel made his traditional appearance last week at the Disney upfronts to roast Disney/ABC and the rest of network TV saying, “CBS is once again calling themselves the most-watched network. Being the most-watched network is like…
Read MoreIn the kNOW – Summer Plans: Will We Stay or Will We Go?
With lockdowns hopefully a thing of the past, we found ourselves curious about what summer plans look like for everyone. Are folks planning to travel or stick close to home? We surveyed over 1,300 Americans and what we found says we’re hopeful, but wary. And maybe not as weary of our ‘new normal’ as you…
Read MoreThe All Access Audio Summit: The Case for Virtual Events
In the “before times,” conferences and meetings were part of the annual plan. Getting together. Learning together. Eating and drinking together. Spending lots of money. This past year has helped us focus on the actual purpose of the events that people consider attending, and we’ve found some real benefits to the virtual event – and…
Read MoreAre Gen Z’s Really Different than Millennials?
Recent discussions with programmers and managers have more than once turned to whether or not to include under-25’s in targeting. For decades, 12-24’s have been the youthful edge insurgent Top 40s employed to topple heritage hit music outlets – and that playbook has been repeated in rock, urban and other formats. But we think it…
Read MoreThe Top-Testing Slogan Is …
It’s no big secret. Every time we’ve gotten a chance to test the desirability of some variant of the slogan, “Music that makes you feel good,” it scores near the top of the ranking. And why wouldn’t it? Academic studies have shown that any music you really like will improve your mood. All music radio…
Read More5 Things We’ve Learned Producing Virtual Events
Learning these lessons was neither cheap nor easy. Our digital roadmap for 2020 and what we ended up doing were not exactly similar. Like everyone, we had to throw out our plan in March when it became clear the world was shutting down and pivot as fast as we could towards products and ideas that…
Read More63% Would Listen More to a Station That …
We’re getting emails still from folks catching up on sessions they missed during the All Access Audio Summit two weeks ago. The great thing about virtual events birthed by the pandemic is that you can watch recordings of sessions days or weeks later. The content from the session that Carolyn Gilbert and I did on…
Read MoreIs Your Future Device-Agnostic?
Last week’s All Access Audio Summit was a great event. A hearty congrats to Joel Denver and his crew (along with Russ Gilbert and the team from NuVoodoo Conference Cloud, who produced the event). While I absolutely missed seeing folks in person, the two days of sessions packed a lot of information. And, though lacking…
Read MoreCoronavirus Vaccines: A Sticking Point?
The All Access Audio Summit starts on April 21 and the NuVoodoo session, “Big All Access Audio Summit Research Presentation” is part of the opening day schedule. We’ve pulled in data from the 3,329 respondents in our Ratings Prospects Study 17 from earlier this year, 1,099 respondents freshly fielded in one of our new ASAP…
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