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Radio…We Have A Problem!

  • We must educate people how to listen to radio again
  • Every station now has a free app – people can listen to radio in a new way
  • If major brands like Coca Cola, Target and Home Depot market themselves, why doesn’t radio?

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Why Did Radio Stop Marketing Itself?

  • Radio assumes everyone knows how to access it
  • Radio used to have marketing budgets (direct mail pieces, TV commercials, billboards, promotional items, street patrols etc.)
  • Radio thinks they are marketing themselves just by being on the radio
  • Radio needs an ego check – people are not consuming content the same way they were 10 years ago

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Why Does Marketing Matter?

  • Mountain Dew Super Bowl Ad: Seal as a Seal
  • Why was marketing so important when One Country launched its audio brand?
  • Everyone knows who Luke Bryan is, yet he still needs a team marketing his tour – just because people know who he is – doesn’t mean they know he’s on tour
  • Even live music venues still market themselves

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What Can Radio Do Differently?

  • Everyone will say, “We have no budget”
  • We need to stop saying, ”We’ve always done it this way”
  • The key is building an effective marketing strategy
  • Utilize social media to meet your audience where they are – specifically Gen Z and Gen Alpha
  • Realizing streaming and radio are not the same
    • Radio is a mainstream community based experience
    • Streaming is an individual algorithm based experience

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Expanding Your Brand Identity

  • There’s power in your personal brand outside of the radio station
  • By expanding your personal brand, it will help the station overall
  • @RadioAmy from the Bobby Bones Show and Amy Brown
    • Why was it important to you to separate yourself and define your brand outside of The Bobby Bones Show?
    • How did you get support from your company to expand your personal brand?

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Can Radio Make A Sexy Comeback?

  • For the second year in a row vinyl outsold CD’s
  • Digital camera sales grew in 2024 for the first time in 13 years
  • Kodak disposable camera sales doubled in 2024
  • One of the countries biggest GEN Z podcasters joined SiriusXM

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Q&A

  • @NicoleIsNik
  • @RadioAmy
  • @ChaseLocke_ & @OneCountry
  • @JoeMccPhilly

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