We'll get the answers we've always gotten and make the same decisions we've always made. When more stations could afford to budget for annual perceptual studies, that every-year repetition allowed the stations to eliminate questions that didn't yield actionable answers – and allowed additional explorations into new territory. Today, many of the studies that get done spend too much time on questions that made sense when radio was the only practical option for listening to music outside the home.

While continuing to employ tactics to try to increase at the expense of competing stations in the market, operators also need to spend more time strategizing how to build listening with consumers who are straying beyond the dial. Broadcast radio needs more reasons for consumers to connect more often and new reasons for consumers to fall in love with our brands all over again.

Last week I laid out marketing options for stations that are just getting their budget approvals as the fall book is underway. I also had the chance to video chat last week with NuVoodoo marketing guru Mike O'Connor about the newest additions to our marketing arsenal. A ...

The fall book started last week, but many station operators are holding on to their marketing dollars as long as possible. Should you find yourself in that group, you still have strong marketing options to help you maximize fall ratings. While production time takes direct ...

A recording of NuVoodoo's presentation from Podcast Movement 2022, "Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)" is available at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. Our data is the result of quantitative interviews with nearly 1,700 respondents who ...

A recording of NuVoodoo's presentation at Podcast Movement 2022, "Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)" will be posted soon at nuvoodoo.com/webinars. We collected a lot of opinions and a lot of data to build the presentation, ...

Last week found Carolyn Gilbert, Jeri Fields, and me at Podcast Movement 2022. Our presentation, "Six Things That Listeners Love About Podcasts (and Four That Drive Them Crazy)" was well received. For those who couldn't make it Dallas, we'll be posting a webinar version ...

The world's largest podcast conference is happening this week in Dallas and NuVoodoo will be there. On Thursday morning, Carolyn Gilbert, Jeri Fields, and I will be presenting at Podcast Movement. When we committed to a title for the presentation months ago, we committed ...

NuVoodoo marketing guru PJ Kling and I put the wraps on a series of free webinars entitled "The Wearable Wolf is Coming" a week or so ago. The webinars mined insights from a sample of nearly 5,500 14-54's across all PPM markets. If you missed the webinar, you'll find a ...

Nielsen released an update on the rollout of the new PPM Wearables last week. As of the end of last month nearly 20% of the total panel across all markets have the new wearable meters. They remain confident they'll have converted 50-75% of the panel by year's end 2022, ...

PJ Kling, Jake Hoefnagel, and I present the last of three live webinars showing the data from the latest NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study this Wednesday, August 3 at 2 PM EDT. It's our 20th twice-annual study focused on ratings-likely respondents across PPM markets ...