The logic of the famous 20:80 rule dictates that the more effort any radio brand invests in its biggest fans, the more that has potential...

So what’s ahead for the radio industry and the folks who work in it? That’s one of the subjects of Borrell Associates‘ new report: The...

If there’s one book this year that best sums up what the radio industry has to do to compete in a world of infinite choice, it’s this...

I have glimpsed the future of radio and it is Hulu. Let me explain. Once upon a time, Hulu was that slick online platform that provided a...

Tom Taylor offered up some questions for radio to ponder in 2014. I thought I’d take this opportunity to answer them: 1. Connected car –...

Stop the pity party, broadcasters! It’s a new year! All year long I hear tons of complaints that “radio is not doing this” and “radio is...

How to “rescue” radio? Doc Searls has some ideas, and Doc’s a very smart man. He is, among other things, the co-author of the classic The...

In this short video, I spell out what AM should do to continue to thrive. Hint: The answer’s not going to come from our friends in...

Henry Blodget at Business Insider just published an updated look at the future of digital media that has consequences for those who are...

Earlier this year, CBS was blacked out on Time Warner Cable in several major markets due to a dispute over content rights fees. CBS...

Today in two conversations two separate radio stations told me how they were promoting their brand using Pandora. Yes, you heard that...

So there’s this medium-sized market unmeasured by Arbitron/Nielsen. And what does a broadcaster do when the ratings company doesn’t...

For that reason, one of the questions I ask is this: “Considering AM, FM, Satellite, and Internet Radio, what one radio station or...

What about the far worse ad clutter on good, old-fashioned terrestrial radio? Does the logic of minimizing spots in one place mean spots...

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...

What is the LA Podcast Festival? It’s a fan appreciation event packed with live performances from the biggest names in comedy podcasts,...

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

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

“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...

Well, for starters, your content is in it. But not just yours. Podcast content too. But more than that: Content that is not audio is made...