Seth Godin is a regular guest on this blog, and for good reason.  He’s the author of many outstanding books including Tribes: We Need You...

Why doesn’t radio get more love given (as we’re always reminded) that almost everybody listens to it almost all the time in almost every...

In the past few weeks I have connected with two wildly different broadcasters. Both were smart and skilled with successful radio stations...

Will Pandora expand to spoken word (I hate that term passionately) content? Not any time soon, I think.  But here’s the take from the New...

Every great brand – just like every great culture – has its origin story. Here’s one from entrepreneur Chad Hurley: We were having a...

It has been sneaking up on us for some time, but now the trajectory of the trend is crystal clear:  The end of the “radio industry” is...

“The key to getting and holding attention is having something new happen continually.” So writes Nancy Duarte in her terrific book...

Broadcasters are increasingly aware that – even in a PPM-rated world – it’s not enough to cling to listening occasions like they’re life...

This is part two of my two-part conversation with Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (you can find part one here). By far the best known player in...

The week after online radio leader Pandora announces a slew of new automaker deals and releases news that they have topped 75 million...

I’m struck by reading the post-mortems about the Consumer Electronics Show in the radio trades – the gist seems to sum up to this:...

Years ago, I invited author and technology guru Guy Kawasaki to speak before a group of broadcasters.  The heart of his message was this...

One of the media genres I work in regularly is Christian radio. There is something different about a project with Christian format...

It’s the lowest hanging fruit of social media best practices:  Let’s get our personalities to blog! Yet what I hear over and over is that...

Pandora and other online radio pure-plays want to be in the car, and that will mean trouble for Sirius/XM, right? After all, Pandora et....

Everyone wants to know how to build a better website for their media brands. And that’s because, in their heart of hearts, most of us...

Oddly enough, the future of local radio revenue is outlined in an Ad Age piece about the future of local TV revenue. Writes Ad Age:...

Okay radio listeners, if your stations vanished tomorrow, would you miss them?  Would you care? This is a critical question in that it...

I’ve been pondering this question: Which way would consumers prefer to listen to the radio on their mobile devices, over the Internet or...

So I’m listening to Pandora on my home audio/TV system via my Blu-Ray DVD player. I was tuned in for about an hour as I read a book,...