What Now, Radio? The Attention Economy is Here!

The Sound Off Podcast by Matt Cundill

Aug 11, 202600:18:08Arts

Radio's relationship with its audience has fundamentally shifted, and the industry's summer of mass layoffs at Cumulus, iHeart, Rogers, Audacy, and Corus has exposed a deeper crisis than spreadsheets can solve. I basical...

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