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Radio On Main Street Featuring Radio Legend, Donnie Simpson

In the second episode of the series, we hear the live conversation Erica Farber had with Donnie Simpson, a legendary media trailblazer and award-winning program director. In this podcast, Simpson reflects on his 55-year career in broadcast radio and shares a few fun stories from his days on the radio as well as advice on what it takes to be successful.

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Radio On Main Street Featuring RAB’s Mike Hulvey and Erica Farber

RAB recently attended the annual NAB Show in Las Vegas. With nearly sixty-one thousand attendees, we heard from featured keynote speakers and enjoyed informative sessions focused on topics that are of relevance to broadcasting, media and entertainment. RAB President and CEO Mike Hulvey and immediate past CEO Erica Farber had an opportunity to sit down with thought leaders from the radio industry and talk about their plans for the future.

In this first episode of the series, we hear the live conversation Mike Hulvey had with Erica Farber, an icon in the radio industry where listeners have the opportunity to hear from Erica about her radio journey and the experiences that led her to lead RAB during a successful twelve-year tenure.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Westwood One’s Blair Fischer

In the 17th and final episode of this ANA Masters series, Erica Farber chats with Blair Fischer, director of national partnerships at Westwood One to gain her thoughts on her first Masters of Marketing conference. Blair shared so many nuggets of great advice for radio sellers, regardless of whether you are national or local. Have a listen and you’ll be energized and reminded how passion for our medium is infectious and ultimately leads to growth.

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Radio On Main Street featuring The Mixx’s Robyn Streisand

In the 16th episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, RAB’s Erica Farber sat down with Robyn Streisand, founder and CEO of both The Mixx – a strategic creative agency, and its holding company, Titanium Worldwide – a collective of independent- and minority-owned agencies providing a one-stop shop for brands. Both agency brands are grounded in love, resilience and strength. Robyn’s mission is to implore marketers to reignite the value with what their brands mean and represent and live by it, which is a great reminder for all of radio’s iconic collection of brands that inform and entertain consumers every single day.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Transunion’s Ade Adeosun

In the 15th episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber chats with Ade Adeosun, vice president of marketing solutions for TransUnion. There are moments that matter throughout a consumer’s daily journey, and we all know that audio plays a significant role in these moments each and every day. The interactions brands make within those moments become indelible and as Ade says, “audio impressions last much longer than that initial interaction, and that’s why audio is a phenomenal medium.”

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Radio On Main Street featuring Tabata Gomez, Former CMO of Stanley Black & Decker

Stanley Black & Decker’s presentation at the ANA Masters of Marketing conference focused on the Craftsman brand and just following it, Tammy Greenberg had the opportunity to chat with Tabata Gomez, former chief marketing officer for Stanley Black & Decker, alongside the brand’s agency partner, Jessica Henrichs, president of Collie McVoy. Helping to empower consumers is core to the Craftsman brand’s mission and a deep understanding of the consumer gained through data provided the brand the comfort to push the boundaries. It takes bravery to create something so big that it becomes part of culture in a short period of time, and the Stanley Black & Decker Craftsman brand did just that. Take a listen to some of the songs that have come out of the Craftsman campaign at the end of this episode and listen for it across radio’s platforms soon!

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Radio On Main Street featuring The CMO Whisperer Steve Olenski

In episode number nine of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber chats with Steve Olenski, The CMO Whisperer. Steve is among the most influential journalists, having written for many leading publications including AdAge, Adweek, Business Insider and Forbes. He was aptly named “The CMO Whisperer” by a former CMO of Walmart because of the trust and advice he has shared over his career and his position as confidante to CMOs from America’s most influential brands. Listen up to this wide-ranging conversation.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Audacy’s Brian Benedik

In the 10th episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber sits down with Brian Benedik, chief revenue officer of Audacy to gain some of his takeaways. Brian reminds us that despite the challenges and competition stemming from a more complicated marketing and media landscape, we are fortunate to be in an audio renaissance right now and we collectively need to continue telling radio’s powerful story so that the marketing community truly hears and understands it.

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Radio On Main Street featuring LoopMe’s Rachel Conforti

In the 11th episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, RAB’s Erica Farber chats with Rachel Conforti, senior vice president of marketing at LoopMe, a technology company that uses AI to prove consumer resonance to messaging, gain audience insight, improve advertising outcomes and gain key learnings in real time. Rachel’s perspective on the future of measurement, attribution and AI is thoughtful and meaningful. And LoopMe’s methodology and research has shown that audio delivers and most definitely works. 

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Radio On Main Street featuring Alcon’s Brent Christianson  

In the 12th episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber sat down with Brent Christianson, director of marketing capabilities for Alcon Laboratories. Brent’s unwavering support for radio continues a year after he first joined this podcast. Brent’s recommendation to all of us in radio is to continue to educate the ad community – get case studies out there to inform marketers not only of the possibilities, but the results that like-minded brands are achieving.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Fitzco’s David Matathia

In our fifth episode of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber chats with David Matathia, head of strategy at Fitzco, a fully integrated and independent agency based in Atlanta. David provides an inside look into Fitzco’s success and chats about the value of radio to advertising partners. Have a listen to this conversation, and you’ll come away with real insight into the agency world today.

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Radio On Main Street featuring System 1’s Jon Evans and Andrew Tindall

In episode number six of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Tammy Greenberg speaks with Jon Evans, chief customer officer, and Andrew Tindall, global partnerships director from System 1, a creative effectiveness platform that quickly harnesses the power of emotion to drive profitable growth for brands by measuring emotional responses to advertising.

The ListenUp study that System 1 released in partnership with RadioCentre in the U.K. further confirms that radio works. Radio can change consumer behavior, gets consumers to talk about a brand, look for a brand at retail and buy it. Great radio ads trigger positive emotions and garner huge results. Listen to the full conversation and check out the full ListenUp study on RAB.com.

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Radio On Main Street featuring LongHorn Steakhouse’s Monika Saxena

In episode number eight of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, Erica Farber speaks with Monika Saxena, executive vice president of marketing for LongHorn Steakhouse. A hugely successful brand with almost 600 locations across the country, the challenge for LongHorn Steakhouse is building on a vast amount of consumer love for the brand in both its mature markets as well as new ones to continuously expand its customer base. 

Much like radio, LongHorn Steakhouse is fortunate to serve a hundred million people every year and is driven by being a force for good in their guests’ lives and a force for growth for the brand and the communities it serves. Monica shares what they’re focused on and more during this insightful conversation.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Equity Project for All’s Raquelle Zuzarte

In episode number seven of Radio on Main Street at the ANA Masters of Marketing, RAB’s Dave Casper chats with Raquelle Zuzarte, founder and chief marketing officer of Equity Project for All, who recently published an article to WARC entitled “What’s AI got to do with it?” In this piece, Raquelle shares that AI is technology that drives human progress and introduces us to a new way of practically looking at it for business and marketing application, introducing us to AIHI, which stands for Artificial Intelligence for Human Ingenuity.

AI is technology that helps humans to imagine more, aim higher and do better, and Raquelle simplifies a sometimes scary and confusing technology and offers us invaluable advice. Have a listen to her advice on the podcast and follow up with her article as well.

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Radio On Main Street Featuring Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ Nicole LaSpina

Welcome to the latest Radio on Main Street series recorded on-site at the 2023 Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) Masters of Marketing conference. RAB had the opportunity to chat with many attendees about their businesses, their marketing goals, the issues they are most focused on and of course, their thoughts about radio.

In our first episode of the series, RAB’s Erica Farber had the pleasure of sitting down with Nicole LaSpina, senior director of brand marketing for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. Nicole talked about her views and her personal feelings towards radio and how audio can be accessed everywhere and is part of the reason that consumers spend a significant amount of time listening. Since that’s where the consumers are, that is where she believes brands like Wyndham Hotels & Resorts need to be. 

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Radio On Main Street Featuring The Brownstein Group’s Erin Allsman

In the second episode of Radio on Main Street from the ANA’s Masters of Marketing conference, Erica Farber chats with Erin Allsman of The Brownstein Group, which is the longest-running independent advertising and public relations agency headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this episode, you’ll hear how what radio has to offer is equally as relevant to a creative and public relations shop as it is to media agencies. As the media landscape continues to change so completely and dramatically, Erin suggests the value of lunch and learns on a regular basis to keep an agency’s creative juices flowing with what’s new and what’s possible with radio is imperative. Learn why Erin believes “listening is a superpower” in this engaging conversation.

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Radio On Main Street Featuring Provoke Insights’ Carly Fink

In the third episode of this ongoing series from the ANA Masters of Marketing conference, Erica Farber sits down with Carly Fink, president of Provoke Insights, a terrific partner to RAB. In this episode, you’ll hear how market research helps brands take off the blindfolds, takes out the guess work and helps inform marketing, advertising and media strategies. Provoke Insights is bullish on the power of radio and that is because they see the stats firsthand through their research. Have a listen to the conversation and then head over to RAB.com to learn more about Provoke Insights.

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Radio On Main Street featuring Visit Orlando’s Misty Goff

In the fourth episode of the latest series recorded at the ANA Masters of Marketing conference, RAB’s Erica Farber chats with Misty Goff, senior director of marketing for Visit Orlando, which is focused on fun and bringing joy to people in the wonderful city of Orlando, Florida. You’ll learn about  personalized reach, customized messaging and innovation, which are key to Visit Orlando’s marketing strategies and data that helps to facilitate those efforts. Visit Orlando is excited about the promise that data and technology brings to their brand operations, but it will never replace the power of human touch and relationships to drive results. 

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Radio On Main Street Featuring Kellie Rasberry, Co-Host of the Nationally Syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show based out of Dallas on YEA Networks

In our fifteenth episode of the series, we hear the conversation Erica Farber had with Kellie Rasberry, co-host of the nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show based out of Dallas and syndicated by YEA Networks. Kellie just celebrated her 29th anniversary on the show, and along with Big Al Mack, J-Si and part-timers Justin and Ana, she continues the legacy of the founder of the show, Kidd Kraddick, who hosted the show until his untimely death 10 years ago.  

Kidd used to tell Kellie, go out and lead an interesting life, then go on the air and talk about it. The show is a part of so many people’s memories. Kellie describes the show as a shining light in some very dark times. This is yet another great example of the difference radio can make in people’s lives.

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Radio On Main Street Featuring Ellen K, iHeartRadio Morning Host on KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles

In our final episode of the “Radio Influencers” series, we hear the conversation RAB’s Erica Farber had with the incredible Ellen K of iHeartRadio, morning host on KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles, which is also syndicated on Saturdays across the country. With an incredible career, supporting not one but two well-known radio hosts, Ellen K has been waking up Los Angeles with her own supporting cast for the last eight years. Her show is purpose-based with a focus on enhancing people’s lives and she loves making a daily connection to her listeners’ lives. It’s yet another testament to the power of radio.

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