In this week’s episode, Erica Farber chats with newly appointed Chief Judge for the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards, Mark Gross, founder and creative director at Highdive Advertising.
Mark will share his plans for this year’s competition, what it took to win three Best in Show Radio Mercury Awards, and how anything is possible on the Radio.
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Today’s blog post is courtesy of Leo Kivijarv, Ph.D., Executive Vice President & Director of Research of PQ Media
As stated in our previous guest blog posts, this was a strange year given the Trump candidacy. He spent significantly lower on media advertising and marketing than previous presidential candidates on most media platforms, with the exceptions of digital, event marketing, promotional products, public relations & word-of-mouth. Continue reading “Closing the 2016 Political Year”
Today’s blog post is courtesy of Ginny Morris, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Hubbard Radio, LLC
Radio, as an industry, will celebrate its “first” vibrant 100 years in 2020. The country has seen the evolution of radio over that time from a nascent technology with few users to a pervasive and ubiquitous part of American culture. We all know radio’s history, right? The AM band dominated for decades before the FM band finally found its legs, and combined, the two continue to be a solid foundation for today’s ever-evolving “audio landscape.”
Our family has been in the broadcasting business since the early 20’s. My grandfather, Stanley E. Hubbard, started with one radio station: WAMD. In our company’s 90-or-so years we have never been more excited about the radio business. Audience levels are near an all-time high of 247.4MM people 12+ every week. Radio offers a richer experience for our listeners across our digital platforms and a more dynamic environment to help our advertising partners grow their businesses.
Continue reading “Radio’s sustaining presence
in American culture”
In this episode of Radio on Main Street, RAB’s President and CEO Erica Farber talks with Doug Levy, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Univision Local Media Chicago. In this week’s podcast, Erica visits with Doug regarding the Chicago Radio Town Hall, a collaborative effort on the part of Chicago’s radio broadcasters to demonstrate radio’s unique power to reach the massive Chicago listening audience.
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Throughout 2016, data became more and more important in advertising – finding out the who, what, where and why. So what happens if the data you receive comes into question? Articles like this one from Advertising Age and The New York Times only adds to that concern.
Continue reading “Ad Fraud Isn’t Possible
in Live Broadcast Radio”
In this episode of Radio on Main Street, RAB President and CEO Erica Farber visits with Mark Gray, President of Katz Radio Group. Katz Radio Group has the largest reach of any radio representation company in America, representing more than 4000 radio stations and thousands of digital platforms. In this week’s podcast, Mark talks about the role of a national rep. in today’s media world, radio’s end-of-year revenue story and his forecast for 2017.
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Today’s post is courtesy of Jim Spaeth and Alice K. Sylvester of Sequent Partners. This is a follow-up post on Multi-Touch Attribution.
The Attribution Accelerator conference, sponsored in part by the RAB on November 30, confirmed that the advertising industry has pinned high hopes to a new measure of media performance, Cross-Channel Attribution modeling.
Close to 300 marketers, agency, media and research providers looked at the in’s and out’s of attribution and its traditional forbearer, marketing mix models. Marketer representatives in attendance included: Unilever, Estee Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, Weight Watchers and Citi. The conference was designed to generate dialogue about Return On Investment measurement and hear what marketers have experienced and need.
If you think this is just another post on ROI, it’s not. It’s about the future of planning what media is included in the plan…or not!
Continue reading “Reporting from The Attribution
Accelerator – What You Need to Know”
In this episode of Radio on Main Street, RAB’s Senior Vice President of Professional Development Jeff Schmidt sits in for Erica Farber and visits with Borrell Associates CEO, Gordon Borrell. Borrell Associates is a research firm that tracks and analyzes trends in local advertising. In this week’s podcast, Gordon talks about the opportunities for radio in local online advertising, the forecast for local online in 2017 and emerging opportunities in the coming year for advertisers and broadcasters.
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What makes a great radio ad? Is there a magic formula or do you just have to have a gift? In today’s post, some of radio’s great creative minds share their thoughts and approach to writing great radio ads. Have you tried their approach in the past? Please tell us what you think about their suggestions.
“Radio is one of the few remaining mediums with captive audiences. They can’t click away from you; they can’t skip ahead. While they are driving in their car, you own their attention,” said Chris Smith, Brand Creative Group Head from The Richards Group, as he was emphasizing radio’s continued relevance as a great storytelling mechanism despite all other advertising choices.
This week, we sit down for a look at the year ahead with Tom Buono, Founder and President of BIA/Kelsey, a local marketing and advertising research and management consulting company.
RAB’s Dave Casper caught up with Tom following the release of their 2017 Local Advertising forecast. You’ll hear what’s on the horizon for local media, BIA/Kelsey’s forecast for Radio and trends to watch for in 2017.
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You’ve all heard about radio’s incredible reach and its ability to create relevant imagery in a person’s mind. Did you know that radio is great at selling shiny new objects, too? Yes, it can help to sell watches, earrings, bracelets and rings – oh my! According to National Jeweler.com, the holiday sales are off to a strong start.
Radio, the top reach medium, provides news, traffic, music to the over 247 million listeners every week. Radio delivers content that listeners want wherever and whenever they want it, but radio is also more than that. Radio is part of the community.
Today’s post is courtesy of Maura Kautsky, VP Marketing NextRadio
I saw this funny quote the other day that couldn’t be timelier “Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed”. And boy has that data evolved. As you read from the previous blog, marketers are moving from big data to data attribution which provides insight into what receives credit for conversion. Continue reading “Let Radio Data Tell the Story”
In this episode, RAB President and CEO Erica Farber talks with Beth Neuhoff. Beth is the CEO of Neuhoff Media. She sat down with Erica following the recently held Rising Through Ranks where Beth shared her thoughts on having difficult conversations.
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In this episode, RAB President and CEO Erica Farber speaks with Ruth Gaviria. Ruth is the CMO of Entercom Communications. She is a passionate marketer who brings tremendous brand management and media expertise to her trailblazing role at Entercom. You’ll hear directly from her – how radio’s local connections combined with smart integrated marketing across all platforms, and flawless implementation are encouraging advertisers to get to know radio and ensure it’s in their total media strategy.
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Broadcast radio has many strengths. It’s live and local. You can tune in to hear your favorite songs, get the latest weather and traffic updates. Maybe you turn it on just to keep you company or hear the play-by-play of the game. But radio also has other strengths that are often taken for granted, and even sometimes, overlooked.
In this episode of Radio on Main Street, RAB President and CEO Erica Farber sits down at the recently held Morning Show Bootcamp with Seth Resler. Resler is the Digital Dot Connector at Jacobs Media. He’s a podcasting veteran with extensive experience in online marketing. In his conversation with Erica, he talks about who is right for podcasting, how to go about doing it and explains how the medium is monetized.
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Today’s post is courtesy of Jim Spaeth and Alice K. Sylvester of Sequent Partners.
“ROI.” “ROI.” “ROI.” whined Jan Brady.
Ok, maybe not, but you can’t go too far these days without encountering the term Return on Investment. ROI performance is on everyone’s mind – auto dealers, big retailers, movie companies … all of radio’s advertisers.
But just as we wrapped our heads around the advanced math of econometric marketing mix models, the measurement world changed. Today, the venerable, powerful marketing mix models are considered too slow, too macro and too backwards-thinking for most marketers. They need tools that are more granular and more comprehensive – tools like they have in digital, where they can attribute sales to digital touchpoints and map a consumer’s journey from search to website to reviewers’ blogs to Facebook to Amazon.
Attribution modeling is leaving the digital ecosystem and will play a key role in cross-platform ROI analysis. It’s a very hot topic full of promise and right now, some bluster.
Continue reading “Marketing Measurement Evolves:
Why You Should Care About Multi-Touch Attribution”
In this episode of Radio on Main Street, RAB President and CEO Erica Farber speaks with Susan Larkin. Susan is the Regional Vice President at Cox Media Group. She leads her teams in Orlando and Jacksonville by example and sets the tone for an authentic, kind and collaborative organization. You’ll hear directly from her – how vision, trust and recognition matter when it comes to leadership and why radio especially matters to our listeners.
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With only 9 weeks left before we bid farewell to 2016, we asked Mark Fratrik, Ph.D., SVP and Chief Economist with BIA/Kelsey to provide with us with radio’s outlook for 2017.
Where do local radio stations stand in the new local media advertising marketplace, especially compared to their traditional and online/digital competitors? According to the recently published 2017 BIA/Kelsey U.S Local Advertising Forecast, which provides a five year national forecast and 12 individual media forecasts, radio does reasonably well. The combination of online activities with the over-the-air advertising leads to a 10.5% share of the $148.8B local advertising pie in 2017.
Continue reading “Radio’s Place in the New Local Media
Advertising Marketplace”
