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To create engaging breaks, radio should focus on timely tidbits, local happenings, and reveal themselves Faced with more competition than ever, radio stations need to make sure their listeners stick around for talk breaks rather than tuning out. The good news for AM/FM stations? Audiences want to hear what hosts have to say. In fact,…
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Our very own Jim Tarantine and Zena Burns spoke with Broadcast Dialogues‘s Connie Thiessen about Futuri’s recent studies on podcasting and time-shifted radio content, and how broadcasters can take advantage of the growing digital audio space. They use their discussion on this podcast to discuss in-depth and answer the question, “What if radio was created…
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National study also contains insights on implications for radio Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9, 2019 – Most podcast users are millennial males, listen weekly, and engage with podcasts at home, according to a major new study by the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) and Futuri Media, a leading audience engagement and…
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The study concluded that there is a profound appetite for time-shifted radio content among radio listeners – notably, highly monetizable and younger audiences – and that opportunities are currently untapped as awareness of the availability of time-shifted radio content among listeners remains low. A new study conducted by Futuri Media and Nielsen, “The Profound Need for Time-Shifted Radio Content…
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Time-shifted audio is a huge opportunity for radio, and our Daniel Anstandig just previewed two key findings from a soon-to-be-released Nielsen and Futuri Media study on this topic: Nearly half of respondents said they understand the concept of time-shifted audio, find it interesting and would listen to it. A high percentage of participants are willing…
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CES 2019 Recap: What Radio Needs to Know Cleveland, Ohio, January 10, 2019 – Artificial intelligence. The connected car. 5G. There have been a seemingly endless number of announcements about technology that will change the way we consume media coming out of this year’s CES conference, but what do they mean for radio? Futuri Media is…
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Moms are heavy consumers of AM/FM radio, digital audio, and podcasts While they’re busy juggling careers and families, modern Moms still make time for audio. As avid listeners of radio, digital audio and podcasts, Moms are completely tuned in, visiting multiple social media networks daily. This busy lifestyle consumer’s media consumption habits translate into opportunity…
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Group deal includes Futuri Media’s POST for podcasting, TopicPulse for story discovery and show prep, and Alexa Skills Cleveland, Ohio, January 17, 2018 – Futuri Media, a global leader in SaaS technology designed to drive audience and revenue growth for broadcasters, today announced a wide-ranging deal with Alpha Media, a diverse multimedia company. This…
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R&B and Latin hits drive more people to digital streaming music while broadcasters look for ways to cash in on streaming audio. More and more people are accessing streaming audio, with 2017 seeing total on-demand audio usage up almost 60 percent from the previous year, according Nielsen’s annual year-end music report. That totaled more than…
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With more and more people using smart speakers, radio stations need to make sure they’re keeping with the technology. Here’s how. A version of this article written by Todd Thomas, Futuri Media’s senior vice president of operations, first appeared on RadioWorld.com. Smart speakers and voice control technology offer radio stations unprecedented ways to engage with…
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