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Goodbye P1. Hello Consideration Set
Back in the late 80’s Arbitron’s Gary Donahue gave radio the term “P1.” The term “P1” literally refers to the station that gets the most quarter hours in a specific diary (or now from a specific meter in PPM). It’s simply an observation of listener behavior; it doesn’t mean that the listener has an emotional…
Read MoreTalk Topic Testing Results
We were delighted to present a quick study at last week’s Talk Show Boot Camp. Don Anthony & Gabe Hobbs put on a great event every year and this year’s was no exception (despite the virtual presentation we’re all becoming accustomed to attending). If you missed it, you can register and watch the recorded sessions…
Read MoreWhat Radio Can Learn from Buskers
It’s been over a year since I’ve been on a subway platform in New York, but I always appreciated buskers and thought there were lessons to be learned for radio. Styles and repertoire more attuned to the biggest population segments on the subway platform often generated bigger audiences. Better production values sometimes generated bigger audiences…
Read MoreGroup Contesting: Friend or Foe?
We wanted to check in on the state of sometimes-maligned group contests. In NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 17, fielded at the beginning of this year, we asked a trio of questions. First, we wanted to know if respondents were aware of the practice at all. Then, among those aware of group contests, we wanted to…
Read MoreWhat If You Had a Hammer and a Screwdriver?
“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Those are the words of psychologist Abraham Maslow (better remembered for his “hierarchy of needs”). In tighter-than-ever budget times we’re seeing more music tests going into the field with swollen sets of question groups.…
Read MoreNew Marketing Tool: OTT-TV
The final livestream of the latest NuVoodoo webinar is Monday, February 22 at Noon Pacific. It includes our latest data on: Smart speakers, national and local contests, marketing messages, social media, advertising channels, podcasts & streaming and more. We cover the information in less than 40 minutes and stay on as long as needed to…
Read MoreDJ’s & Hosts: The Country Radio Perspective
One of the points we’re showing in the first NuVoodoo webinar for 2021, “How to Get Your Ratings From Here to Vaccinated,” is a fresh look at the relationship listeners have with DJ’s and hosts on FM music stations. Overall, it’s more positive than negative – but there is a sharp generational shift. Gen Xers…
Read MoreDoes the Work-From-Home Crowd Listen While Working?
The past year has seen a large portion of the workforce shift to working from home. NuVoodoo has tracked that shift in its on-going study of concern about coronavirus and the changes we’re making in our lives to cope with it. The data is updated regularly at nuvoodoo.com/covid-19-media. With at-work listening an important part of…
Read MoreNuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 17 Tease: DJ’s & Hosts
The first NuVoodoo webinar for 2021, “How to Get Your Ratings From Here to Vaccinated,” starts Thursday, February 11 at 1 PM Eastern, with four opportunities to be on the livestreamed webinar (so you can get answers to your questions on the spot). A fresh sample of nearly 3,500 14-54’s across PPM markets will help…
Read MoreHousehold Size & Ratings Respondents (NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 17 Tease)
Looking for new findings within the data from the 17th NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study, we sometimes forget to point out the things that never change. One of those things is that people who are likely to accept a meter or diary tend to live in larger households. It’s intuitive: more people means more meters or…
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