Look out! The attention economy is collapsing! And… ABC Family Channel rebrands as “Freeform” – and who cares? It’s episode 35 of Media...

I could drone on and on about the lessons Donald Trump teaches media companies, but many of the lessons are so obvious that I need not...

Everybody wants to go viral. It’s as if your little corner of fame or infamy is not complete unless you have some tidbit of content...

If there’s any medium more cluttered with commercials than radio, that medium would be TV. Or is it? Some signs suggest that the...

7 predictions about the future of media. And… Great advice for musicians – and marketers! It’s episode 34 of Media Unplugged with...

Ford is going all-in on bringing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto to the auto dashboard: Ford is making Apple CarPlay and Android Auto...

If you’re a radio broadcaster, your audience is mobile-first, but what about your audio platform? Increasingly, mobile is the place where...

Have you checked out the Media Unplugged podcast I do with Tom Asacker? If not, the holiday season is a great time to catch up. Just go...

Think fame isn’t a formula? Think again. And RLM Public Relations head Richard Laermer is going to spell it out for you. A...

The routine is familiar: At least one radio station in every market flips to “All Christmas” music around Thanksgiving, thus dominating...

Do consumers want radios built into their mobile devices so they can save on precious bandwidth? In other words, does the use of audio...

…and what TV learned from the Serial podcast. Disruption is rampaging through the TV industry, and there are a lot of lessons there for...

What lessons can any media brand – even any radio brand – learn from TheBlaze? TheBlaze is Glenn Beck’s innovative, genre-busting, hugely...

5 Critical Media Trends for 2016. And… Nobody Wants Your App! Plus, rants and raves on Adele’s latest success, A Charlie Brown Christmas,...

I knew this would happen. And I’m not surprised that it’s originating from podcast networks rather than radio broadcasters. I’m talking...

“Share-of-ear.” It’s a mantra among broadcasters nowadays. And I’m going to explain why you should forget about it. You know what it...

How can terrestrial radio partner with online radio for the benefit of both? That’s just one topic tackled by Duncan Orrell-Jones, CEO of...

Yesterday I published a post that detailed how the typical radio station’s Facebook strategy is, at best, off-base, and at...

In what is perhaps a typical radio station scenario, 70% of the inbound traffic to the station’s website comes from social media. That’s...

What if music genres are a lot less important to how listeners tune in music than “use case” moments? That is, what if what you want to...