Tips on Food Supplement Advertising

Food Supplement advertising has become an active area in broadcast advertising as it has elsewhere. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the

What Soap Can Teach Us About Morning News Branding

If you want to find some of the most unimaginative work in broadcast television, take a gander at morning news image promos

Sarah Fay, Aegis Media North America CEO

Armed with a solid background and understanding of online and mobile marketing, Sarah Fay has been on a very fast track over the past 10 years within

Holiday Advice

With the year ending, ask for promotional calendars, with a promise for a plug. Something along the line of, “We are in need of calendars for our studio—and offices, etc.” Send us one and we’ll trade you a plug for your business.

Fooling Some of the People Some of the Time

(Could Get Your Station a Hefty Fine) Whenever ratings week is around the corner, stations go into overtime mode to conjure up some promotion that...

Radio’s Recession Strategy: Focus Online

Faced with the recession and falling revenues, the radio industry has begun to sell online assets with some success. According to the Radio Advertising...

The evolution of AOL Radio

One year ago, our AOL Radio product faced a challenging future. Although we had one the largest and most devoted audiences, we faced some real business challenges -- royalty rates

Primer on Media Mixing

I’d like to dispel the notion that traditional media and social media do not mix well together. There’s a widely-held fear of giving the general public access to station personnel (even though it’s the job

Are Pre-roll Ads Killing your News Web Site?

When new technology comes on the scene, the new products often look and act like the old ones. For example, the first cars had the same form as horse-drawn

Optimization, Integration, and Procrastination

Three things seem to be prevalent in the world of traditional media as they map-out their new media strategies: Optimization, Integration, and Procrastination. If I had to assign

On the Spot – If it doesn’t Sell it Doesn’t Matter

Having just returned from the South African Radio Forum I have discovered again that we in the States are not alone…especially when it comes...

A new media world

Most people don't mind ad-supported business models for their digital content offerings, according to a new study by IBM's Center for Business Value. In...

Interep’s Local Focus Radio is recharged and reunited with Focus 360!!

We know that there is a tremendous opportunity for a Sales Organization to both sell and to market local radio to national advertisers and agencies. The Local Focus Radio Team, re-united with its

What the users say:

In today's Traffic and Revenue Management System Intel Brief, we've gathered some quotes from radio and television traffic personnel responding to selected Traffic Directors'...

Surviving (and Maybe Thriving) in a Downturn

On the night of November 20th I pulled out the mattress on the sofabed in my living room so my business partners could get...