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For Every 10 Minutes of Audio Consumed in America, AM/FM Radio Gets More than 9!

May 11, 2018

That’s the finding released today 5/11/2018) by DMR Interactive. “For every 10 minutes of audio currently consumed by Americans, more than 9 minutes goes to AM/FM radio. In a fragmented, mobile world, this is the definition of market share dominance. And the story keeps getting better. AM/FM Radio generates 720 BILLION […]

Advertising Lessons from 1923 and 1927

April 24, 2018

He is “…hopelessly out of date, and amazingly current. He was the outstanding copywriter and strategist of his time; he made $100,000 a year and more writing advertising when that kind of money was important even to the U.S. Treasury.” The writer was talking about Claude C. Hopkins (1866-1932), a pioneer of […]

Radio? Yeah, Radio.

April 16, 2018

Listening to Radio Commercials for Fun and Profit

April 10, 2018

The finalists in the 2018 Radio Mercury Awards have been announced. ‘The 100 or so commercials that made the cut represent some of the best work being done in radio advertising today. From this group, a dozen or two will emerge as national award-winners, taking home the coveted RMA “tube” […]

How to Amplify Your Word-of-Mouth, Guaranteed.

March 28, 2018

You prize good word-of-mouth don’t you? We all do. Word-of-mouth may not create business, but it helps create a preference for your business or brand in the heart of the hearer. Good radio advertising can have the same effect, only multiplied and amplified. Radio is word-of-mouth on steroids. Individual word-of-mouth travels slowly and unpredictably. […]

The Speech Therapist In Your Pocket

February 14, 2018

You and I take the sounds of our words for granted. We don’t even give them a second thought. Having learned our alphabet as kids (to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, possibly our earliest exposure to the power of a jingle), we gradually picked up a vocabulary, adding to […]

Putting Your Phone Number in a Radio Ad is a Bad Idea. Here’s Why.

February 4, 2018

You’re not one of those advertisers who just automatically throw their telephone number into their radio commercials, are you? Good. Didn’t think so. You know better. You chuckle as you imagine somebody pulling over as they’re driving down the road, scrambling to jot down that telephone number. And you recognize […]

How to Write Good in Plain English

October 4, 2017

Meet P.L.A.I.N. – short for the Plain Language and Information Network. Founded in the 1990s “…to promote the use of plain language for all government communications. We believe that using plain language will save federal agencies time and money and provide better service to the American public.” Wait a minute. Federal […]

So, You Want to Be a Voice Actor?

September 23, 2017

You could do worse than to learn from Seattle’s Amy Walker.

Thoroughbred Ad Campaign Races into Hall of Fame

September 21, 2017

One of my very favorite advertising campaigns of all time has to do with horse racing. And life, laughter, and modern culture. It’s DeVito/Verdi’s brilliant “And They’re Off…” campaign, winner of multiple advertising awards over the years, including their induction earlier this month into the Clio Hall of Fame. Here’s one […]