Top Radio Formats

Top Radio Formats 2024: Trends and Insights

Learn the top radio formats 2024, the latest trends and how they are shaping the future of the industry. Find out which formats are thriving and what this means for listeners. music marketers and broadcasters alike.

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Radio still dominates

Today is Nation Radio Day! AM/FM still dominates ad-supported listening

Nielsen released its latest stats on U.S. audio listening habits in Q2 2024, showing that much-maligned broadcast radio still dominates ad-supported listening.

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Spotify tv ad

How a Spotify TV ad dominated Summer and showed Radio’s weakness

How a Spotify TV commercial hit all the right summer notes and stole the spotlight, leaving broadcast radio scrambling to keep up.

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How Columbia University’s 89.9 FM found Radio’s ‘lost script’ [Fred Jacobs]

Live campus radio coverage of recent protests proves that Gen Z is ready to reinvent broadcast radio if the current gatekeepers let them…..

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Record labels have some bad news for radio [Bobby Owsinski]

Radio is still an important medium, but it is not as popular – particularly with music fans – as it once was. So many record labels are cutting their radio promotion teams…..

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Television is tanking, but Radio is reinventing

The future of visual entertainment is looking bleak as TV gets more expensive, less accessible, and just plain less entertaining. Radio faces no such detriments, and continues to succeed.

Why? How?…..

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Where do radio listeners draw the line with AI? [Fred Jabobs]

Radio suffers from an identity crisis amplified by increased competition on multiple fronts. AI could be a partial solution, but only if listeners are OK with it. Radio consultant extraordinaire Fred Jacobs explores…..

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Think musicians should be paid for radio play? SIGN THIS PETITION NOW

The United States is one of a handful of countries that don’t compensate artists when their music is played on AM/FM radio. The others denying hundreds of thousands of musicians. Continue reading

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People still listen to radio more than music streams, podcasts combined

The death of broadcast radio listening appears to have been greatly exaggerated. The average person in the U.S. spends 36% of their daily audio time listening to AM/FM radio, according to a new Edison survey…

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An argument for handcrafted Radio [Fred Jacobs]

Where’s the humanity in AI-generated music curation? Is the algorithm really giving you music you want to hear, or what they want you to hear? And yet handcrafted radio is. Continue reading

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