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The Beatles 1963 album “Please Please Me” had the song, “Do You Want to Know a Secret,” which was also the opening line of the song. The second line was “And promise not to tell.” There is an assumption that if someone tells you “a secret” that you keep it to yourself.
While keeping a secret is considered an admirable thing, there is one secret that radio broadcasters need to tell everyone.
Radio station programming and marketing directors joke, “If only I knew who was carrying those meters, then I could really grow my ratings.” Many organizations, including Research Director, Inc., have built tools to focus on those listeners who are carrying a meter. Most just drill down by age and geography.
Nielsen will now deliver to its clients a report that lets them know the profile of those that are carrying meters in their market. Now, it does not give you their name and address, nor does it focus on individual meter keepers. Instead, this report, called “PPM Panel Characteristics,” outlines the characteristics of your market’s meter keeper with detail that is not available elsewhere.
Which could mean potentially losing business! Are you willing to stand as strong as Colin Kaepernick in your beliefs? Are you willing to lose that business because the client does not believe in the VALUE of your listeners? Are you going to cut the rate even though the data shows that your station is the best for clients because you just want the business?
Hello folks … once again it’s my turn to write a blog. UGH!
And the reason for my “UGH!” now (and always) is usually the same … what in the world am I going to write about?????? And, I swear this go around, I had a serious case of blog block. I’ve pondered it long and hard over the past couple of weeks and nothing, seriously, absolutely nothing!
So, with a deadline looming (overdue, in fact), and being the researcher that I am, I googled “blog ideas” in hopes of coming up with a topic. This (among many others) is what I stumbled upon … 47 Blog & Content Ideas for When You Have a Mental Block.
Each year, effective with the October PPM and Fall diary books, updated population numbers are incorporated into Nielsen Audio’s radio audience estimates. Changes within a station’s key demographic can significantly impact its ratings, even if panelists’ or diarykeepers’ listening hasn’t changed at all.
