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When was the last time the radio made you laugh?  When was the last time the radio made you smile?  We asked these and other questions about radio’s emotional bond with listeners in one of the two national consumer studies NuVoodoo fielded for 2016.  We were pleased with the relatively high marks radio gets for…

The results from our seventh NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study are in. We’ll be sharing our latest insights as we move through 2016 – though we’ll save some for clients, some for the designs of our revolutionary direct marketing programs for clients and still others for our keynote at the Worldwide Radio Summit in April. Many…

In designing the two national consumer studies that NuVoodoo fielded for 2016, whenever possible we wanted to ask new questions and probe different aspects of what listeners get from our brands.  With buzz in the digital press about “curated playlists” on Spotify and some of its competitors, as well as the mysterious algorithm that Pandora…

PD’s have an amazing range of tools today to help choose which songs to play. All provide interesting information that can be deployed in valuable ways. While there’s a clear benefit in having insight into which songs are going to be hits in the near future, there’s also a clear need to understanding which songs…

For 2016, NuVoodoo fielded two national consumer studies.  One focuses on programming issues, in part tracking some of the questions we’ve asked in previous studies to look at consumer satisfaction with terrestrial radio as well as usage and perceptions of the ever-growing competition for consumer ears coming through the internet and mobile internet.  The second…

You’ve seen the meme on Facebook concerning just about every occupation under the sun: “Being a [fill in occupation] is easy, it’s like riding a bike – except the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, everything is on fire and you’re in hell.” But, that sentiment certainly should have been written originally about being…

Go back far enough in the history of music radio and you find deejays who picked the music on their shows.  These were music-connected people first and entertainers second.  To be sure, those who rose the highest were entertainers in their own right, but it was their connection to the music, their understanding of the…

One year ago we published this wish list for radio in 2015: News and talk stations that make people feel smarter Talk talent who make entertaining their primary mission Morning shows (and talent in other dayparts) who are legitimately, laugh-out-loud funny (we’ve got many, but we need many more) Non-duplicable content on all stations (taking…

The morning radio show.  It’s what defines our medium for many people.  Think about the portrayals of radio in movies and TV; it’s almost always a morning show.  Too often it’s not even a flattering portrayal, but the fact remains that it’s what sticks out about the medium.  The morning show is generally the daypart…

Instagram has been climbing the ladder of relevance and popularity among radio listeners, especially that small subset predisposed to accept a PPM or a diary. While the digerati have been crowing about SnapChat and Vine and other portals gathering usage among younger consumers, our studies have shown that Instagram is the platform to watch. And…