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NuVoodoo helps stations increase the probabilities for ratings success, but even the best laid plans for programming optimization and marketing for increased audience share involve a little luck, too. Join our webinar starting this week for the opportunity to get paid for every meter you find. All attendees get a chance to play Million Dollar…

You may recall that NuVoodoo hacked its own session at Worldwide Radio Summit in late March. Instead of making attendees sit through yet another research presentation, we did a game show. NuVoodoo President Carolyn Gilbert sniped, “We couldn’t inflict another PowerPoint presentation laden with tables and charts on people at a conference; they’re deadly.” Attendees…

This week’s post comes from the keyboard of NuVoodoo EVP/Marketing, Mike O’Connor. Are you using digital media to promote your station contest this spring? Google and YouTube have stepped up their enforcement of ad-policy violations with automated bots – and radio has inadvertently fallen into the cross-hairs. The crackdown started in March and has affected…

The most recent crackdown on digital advertising has come from Google/YouTube and they’ve lead the way replacing human ad-content policy-enforcers with bots. You can be sure Facebook will follow in these and other compliance areas.

If you couldn’t make it to Burbank for Worldwide Radio Summit this year, you can still have a chance to play the game we presented at this year’s WWRS. You’ll be able to test your knowledge of likely ratings participants AND have a chance to win cash. We’ll be running the game again online in…

These ratings likelies are more attuned to radio and happier with the stations they listen to, compared to the overall sample. It’s one more reason we love ratings participants.

What can respondents tell you about songs? Keep in mind, they’re respondents – by definition they’ll respond to anything you ask them. People who think a question is irritating or meaningless or confusing often end up becoming non-respondents. But, those who keep giving answers to questions, even if those answers are not very meaningful, are…

Valuable data will tell you which songs are familiar and which songs people really like. From there, it’s up to expert programmers to make decisions using experience and intuition.

Eight things that will happen if you replace your auditorium music test (AMT) with a NuVoodoo Online Music Test (OMT): You’ll get a full sample, every time. We never have low samples because of traffic jams or bad weather or anything else. We keep interviewing until your sample is perfect. Our JerkFinder™ software screens out…