There’s no doubt about it: Consistency matched to consumer expectations is a big reason why listeners keep coming back to the brands they...

I posted this for the first time a couple years ago, but I think it contains an evergreen message which is particularly appropriate for...

This strikes me as perplexing for many reasons, not the least of which is that so much of radio is neither live nor local. Yet that...

In order to rally and fight a problem, we must begin by recognizing its existence. The realities of changing consumer usage have...

Over 11 million unique listeners have already tuned in to iTunes Radio since launch with the most listened to song being “Hold On, We’re...

At least that’s what they say. We can be led astray by this, of course, because we can prove almost any point when we go to consumers and...

In the race to exploit new digital opportunities, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker has described three “consumer Internet ‘white...

“Only a feature.” What an odd phrase! Especially coming from an industry which too often works overtime to avoid anything personalized...

This post was originally published by PBS’s MediaShift and is reprinted here with their permission. I wrote it shortly before last week’s...

Before 1960, the drive-in was king. It was ground-zero for a demographic segment Hollywood had forgotten in its obsession to meet head on...

“All for one” and “one for all.” The traditional radio model is neither “all for one” nor “one for all.” It’s really “all for all,” the...

Since then we have relied on bowing our new brands with stunts: Events or circumstances designed to garner attention and trial that give...

What will Jeff Bezos do with The Washington Post? That’s the question on everyone’s lips, and scores of armchair analysts have an...

It’s in the air, part of the zeitgeist – it’s Breaking Bad. And like all phenomena which own the Twitterized water cooler for one brief,...

Why did ESPN acquire Nate Silver and his hugely popular NYT blog FiveThirtyEight.com? Was it just to lay odds on sports events? Or was it...

Writes Talkers: The concept of the full-blown, digital-age “media station” predicted and described for the past decade by Michael...

“Hollywood Studios’ Message to Executives: Embrace Digital or Die.” That was the title of the piece in The Wrap. It focused on the ascent...

I always enjoy chatting with someone knee-deep in technology who is not “of radio” but understands radio and the larger world of audio...

It’s the idea that you’re already familiar with the concept of the movie, thus the studios don’t need to waste those precious marketing...

When we say things like “let’s whip up a better story for radio to convince folks how important it is in their lives” we are fighting an...