The Jacobs Media Blog

New data show that candidates with the longest speeches performed best in the Iowa Caucus. Is this a message for radio?

Legendary public radio station, KCRW, does it again – this time, with a leap into virtual reality. They’re our Radio’s Most Innovative honoree this week.

Radio broadcasters have excellent cross-promotional tools available to them. Why don’t they use them very often?

On Sunday, a small business – Death Wish Coffee Company – will see its ad featured in Super Bowl 50. What that means to radio & small businesses everywhere.

When the agency creating a new Super Bowl commercial for the $156,000 Acura NSX has to come up with just the right song, it was a no-brainer.

Every year, hundreds of radio stations change format to all-holiday music, producing skyrocketing ratings. But what about their ability to monetize them?

Thanks to drone and virtual reality technology, any radio station can take its fans “backstage.”

Here are four mega-questions for the radio industry as it faces new challenges in a rapidly expanding media and technology ecosphere.

For the first time ever, catalog music has outsold new music. What does it mean for radio stations?

Making predictions about the future is hard enough – having someone check them seven years later is a whole other thing. We go back to 2008.

Two legacy industries – automotive and radio – have more in common than you might think. Especially when it comes to facing an uncertain future.

The NPR One team aspires to be “the Netflix of audio.” And now they’ve discovered that local content may be the “secret sauce.”

“Content is king” has become a cliché for radio stations. It’s time to AFDI.

It’s always fun to imagine what Apple is thinking about for the next iPhone, and the features it may contain.

The two biggest tech companies in the world have invaded the dashboard. The impact they have on the automotive and radio industries is important.

A theme at this year’s CES is that automakers are embracing and even partnering with companies that are disrupting their businesses. Why not radio?

A ranker of the most stressful jobs by CareerCast.com lists broadcasting in its Top 10. Do these surveys have an impact on young job-seekers?