Pandora’s Future in Your Car
Today Radio Ink reported that Pandora is being dropped from Toyota’s dash display. The report was based on an email sent to Toyota Entune...
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mramsey1
- Mar 22, 2018
2 Minutes of Spots Per Hour – Radio’s Future?
By now you’re probably familiar with the recently announced initiative from FOX that will reduce commercial content to just two minutes...
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mramsey1
- Feb 20, 2018
Can Analog Media Companies Drive Digital Revenue?
There isn’t a broadcasting company that doesn’t hope that answer is “yes,” and guess what: “Yes” is right. A recent New York Times piece...
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mramsey1
- Sep 6, 2017
Here’s How Your Radio Company Can Make Some Money This October
Every broadcaster is on the hunt for non-traditional revenue, right? Everyone wants to leverage their amazing audience attention and...
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mramsey1
- Jun 29, 2017
“Radio, Advertisers are Less Interested in an Audience and More Interested in a Buyer”
Gordon Borrell has issued his latest report benchmarking local media’s digital revenues. Required reading for anyone in the local media...
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mramsey1
- Jun 28, 2017
“Radio is Shrinking, Give the Advertisers What They Want”
Gordon Borrell has issued his latest report benchmarking local media’s digital revenues, and it’s another eye-opener. Here’s my full...
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mramsey1
- Jun 21, 2017
Audio Advertisers: It’s Time To Make Spots Much Shorter
This was the headline: “Fox adopting YouTube’s Six Second Ad Format.” “This is the first time that a broadcast television company has...
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mramsey1
- Jun 16, 2017
Let’s Face It: Your Advertising Sucks
So I’m reading a headline predicting a 4% decline in radio advertising over the next year and another 4% decline the year after....
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mramsey1
- Apr 5, 2017
Advertisers Can Be Their Own Worst Enemies
We had to produce some direct response ads for my podcast project (you’ve heard it, right?), but one of the would-be sponsors was a hard...
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mramsey1
- Mar 16, 2017
Where’s Radio’s Branded Content?
I’m not in the business of crafting ads for clients. Let me get that out of the way right up front. And maybe that’s what permits me to...
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mramsey1
- Feb 20, 2017
It’s Time For Radio To Make Spots Shorter
YouTube has announced that they will no longer support 30-second ads that viewers can’t skip, starting 2018. No more. Nada. Zip. Why? A...
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mramsey1
- Jan 11, 2017
Younger Audiences Hate Ads Even More Than You Do
According to a new global media habits study from Kantar Millward Brown, if you think your audience hates advertising now, just wait. It...
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mramsey1
- Nov 3, 2016
The End of Advertising?
We all know the folks in the print business are being squeezed by digital. At the New York Times total revenue fell 1% while Gannett Co....
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mramsey1
- Aug 17, 2016
This Will Revolutionize Radio Ad Sales
If you’re trying to grow radio ad revenue (or ad revenue from any audio or video platform), you should watch this presentation from...
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mramsey1
- Aug 15, 2016
Podcasting is Going to be Big Business
There’s lots of chatter about podcasting today – from hobbyists, from fans, and from the companies deeply embedded in the space. But all...
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mramsey1
- Aug 1, 2016
How Radio Ads Influence Generation X
Remember Generation X? That’s the group that’s older than Millennials yet younger than Baby Boomers. They are today’s 35-54 demographic...
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mramsey1
- Jun 22, 2016
Five Ways to Dramatically Improve Audio Advertising
Audio advertising sucks. It just does. Face it. But it doesn’t have to.Audio advertising sucks. But it doesn't have to. #hivio Click To...
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mramsey1
- Apr 13, 2016
Oh No! Listeners Switch Stations! It’s the End of the World!
So people are freaking out about the new Edison data indicating that consumers – that’s you and me – switch stations 22 times in an...
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mramsey1
- Mar 17, 2016
Radio’s Advertising Spending Forecast – 2015 – 2020
There’s a new report from one of my favorite media experts, Jack Myers, and it highlights advertising revenue projections for radio and...
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mramsey1
- Jan 13, 2016
The End of Commercial Clutter on Radio?
If there’s any medium more cluttered with commercials than radio, that medium would be TV. Or is it? Some signs suggest that the...
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