Presenting at this year's virtual Morning Show Boot Camp, preparing a talk for the CMB Momentum Summit next month and chatting with clients in recent weeks, the same themes keep coming up as we talk about radio's future.

Things aren't going back to normal anytime soon. The car-heavy morning commute may return eventually, but radio is going to be playing for more in-home listening for a long, long time. With fewer radios in homes, the radio business is more reliant on streaming than ever before – and that means smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart speakers and any other new device that can be used to stream audio.

Let's spend more time as a business thinking about people listening at home. Make sure listeners know what they need to say to Alexa or "Hey Google" to get your station to play. In the morning, with people preparing for a day of telecommuting and setting the kids up in different corners for virtual school, it's easy to imagine a radio playing in one room, Alexa playing the station in another and GMA on the TV in a third room. Your content needs to be so compelling that they find themselves drifting back to where your station is playing (and buy another Echo and turn off the TV).

In the study NuVoodoo fielded just before Labor Day and presented at Morning Show Boot Camp (1000 morning show listeners 18-49 across all PPM markets), we set out to learn how wake-up times had shifted in the coronavirus era. We know lives have changed with many people ...

In the study we presented at Morning Show Boot Camp (1000 morning show listeners 18-49 across all PPM markets), we wanted to get an idea of what kind of morning show people were looking for given the unusual nature of 2020. Even in “normal times,” we know a portion of ...

During our session at Morning Show Boot Camp last week, we were asked what advice we have for morning talent. Carolyn and I answered off the cuff, but thought we’d take this opportunity to write a complete answer to the question, “What are the most important things ...

Morning Show Boot Camp happens on Wednesday and Thursday this week, though no one’s getting on a flight or planning to check into a hotel. Happily, there’ll be no catered food involved. Sadly, there’ll be no happy hour to raise a glass while catching up with old ...

There’s simply been nothing “normal” to discuss about much of anything since the middle of March. When we were asked to present at this year’s virtual Morning Show Boot Camp, which happens next week (9/23-24), our brains immediately went to trying to put some ...

Back during the introduction of PPM (when it was a partnership between Arbitron and Nielsen), some of us fretted about quarter hours that could be lost because of headphone listening. Arbitron assured us that panelists would just have to use a dongle to connect their ...

NuVoodoo Consumer Insights is live and ready. It’s a sales-focused research solution that collects local samples quickly in markets of all sizes to help get meetings and close deals with prospective advertisers. Our research operations team sets up the output in a ...

An enlightening part of preparing for our recent webinar for RAB members was surveying that group of sales professionals about what they do and what help they need. In all, some 259 radio sales professionals gave us feedback. Despite their frustration with having to prove ...

An abundance of thanks to our friends at the RAB for a great session on our NuVoodoo webinar last week as part of their ongoing Open for Business series. We were solidly focused on radio sales efforts for this webinar, fueled by consumer insights gathered in our daily ...