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Behind The Curve 2
In yesterday’s post, we discussed how the evolution of digital media and technology may be altering the role that broadcast radio plays in the music discovery hierarchy. The spate of new options for...
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Pyramid Scheme
Many years ago, Coleman Research (now Coleman Insights) came up with a breakthrough idea after years of conducting audience surveys for stations throughout North America and the world. Realizing that...
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Time Out Of Mind
Keeping up with the rapid pace of change is challenging to everyone working in radio – not to mention everyone making a living in media, whether it’s about producing information and entertainment on...
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The Smartest Guy In The Room
We continue to hear from people in the media and advertising communities bloviate about how “no one listens to the radio anymore.” And some of this talk is reinforced in casual conversations at middle...
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Just Spell My Name Right
We all know the phrase, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.” It’s credited to one of the greatest showmen and publicity hogs of all time, P.T. Barnum. There are exceptions, of course. One of...
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The Big 1-0
Yup, today’s the day. This blog turns ten years old– an entire decade of posts, observations, opinions, and hopefully, not too much blather about the radio business and how it fits into the expanding...
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Pyramid Smackdown
Early last month, a post on jacoBLOG called “Pyramid Scheme” introduced the idea of an update or makeover of the original Coleman Image Pyramid. It was based on the premise that radio broadcasters are...
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Go Fish!
These days, it seems like there’s a very line between the wisdom of “fish where the fish are” OR failing to do that and ending up “swimming with the fishes.” Those are the increasingly hard choices...
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Radio’s Most Innovative: Jeff Smulyan/WFAN
It’s often said that success has many fathers. The problem is that it can make it a challenge to determine who was really responsible for a great innovation. That’s what makes this week’s RMI...
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The End Of Bar Nights
It is easy for a legacy medium like broadcast radio to fall into that mindset of doing what always works. After all, habit and consistency play roles in how people use their entertainment sources, and...
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The ROI on ROI
As marketers attempt to better understand how to best harness brands, as well as how to most effectively use their resources, the term ROI – Return On Investment – has skyrocketed in popularity and...
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So How Are Sales?
Today’s guest post from Paul Jacobs is a continuation of yesterday’s discussion about the limitations of ROI, and the need for a better and more meaningful way to evaluate brand connection. This...
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There’s Something About Podcasting
It is truly a media oddity how the podcasting platform – once the domain of geeks – is now emerging as a media player after years of flying below the radar. And yet for so many content creators,...
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DASH 3.0
It seems like every couple of days, there’s a story in the radio trades or a host of other publications about how the “connected car” is the hot new thing, the death of radio, unsafe at any speed, and...
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Radio’s Most Innovative: iHeartRadio
It’s no secret that the ways in which listeners are consuming audio is shifting constantly and has been for some time. The ubiquity of smartphones and the growth of streaming all but require radio...
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On A Mission
If you work in radio, chances are good that you have a closetful of logoware, representing your journey in the business from stations to station, and market to market. Most radio pros proudly sport...
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Where’s Radio?
On the heels of yesterday’s post about public radio and iHeartRadio staging podcast upfronts, I heard from an old friend and former morning guy, J LaLonde. Many of you remember J as an accomplished...
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Radio’s Most Innovative: Horizon Media &“Moodstates”
One of the notable things to come out of the results from our Techsurveys is how much emotion plays a role in broadcast radio listening. While consumers enjoy hearing their favorite songs,...
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Rebooting Radio
Yesterday’s post – “Uncool” – predictably stirred things up, generating lots of talk and comments from several people, off-line and in our comments section. But those of you who know our style and the...
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What’s On TV
At the recent re:publica15 conference in Berlin, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gave some predictions about TV and technology – over the next two decades. Noting that just 10 years ago, there were no...
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