The Jacobs Media Blog

Public radio star Ira Glass is changing the way programs sound, as well as legitimizing the podcasting movement.

Sir Paul McCartney is dabbling in virtual reality and recording signature sounds for Skype, proving that digital natives aren’t just Millennials.

Autonomous cars are coming faster than we thought, with implications for radio and other in-dash media providers.

There are many explanations for why the Classic Rock radio format has endured. Here’s our theory.

Company culture cards are a way for even the biggest companies to communicate their values and missions to all their employees.

As radio grapples with serious questions about its content and how to access it, the mobile revolution continues to provide a pathway to success.

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.