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Radio calls to action --- Michael Hedges September 8, 2008
Radio succeeds as a call to action medium. When radio broadcasters set their minds to moving people the result gets results. Radio promotions succeed, more often than not, because the nature of the medium is participation.
Big Ideas…Damn the Budget --- Michael Hedges September 8, 2008
Promotion ideas are easy. Everybody has them. Turning an idea into a major promotion is not the realm of the faint-hearted. And that’s one reason many broadcasters have given them up. The accountants never liked all that expense anyway.
The Brand’s The Thing --- Michael Hedges September 8, 2008
Promotion, marketing and branding is not just something NRJ does, it’s what NRJ is. It is not simply the company’s strong point, it’s the whole point.
Powerful Radio – “I’d love to turn you on” --- Michael Hedges June 8, 2007
It was worth hearing, again, that the Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” passed a milestone. It was forty years ago this week that radio stations daringly played a song starting “It was twenty years ago today…”. Things change.
Marketing Promotion: Media’s Blackhole --- Michael Hedges March 13, 2007
Tired of hearing about newspapers giving away DVDs and still losing circulation? Of course; their marketing people are about a generation behind the times.
Radio promotion goes very wrong --- Michael Hedges April 11, 2009 Follow on Twitter
Drawing crowds appeals to a media persons inner marketing brain. Radio stations are the long standing champions at calling people to action, social media a recent challenger. Crowds, though, are unpredictable.
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