Radio Advertising

topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes

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3 statements about Radio Advertising, every show

ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Gilbert: Trader Joe's required store density to amortize citywide radio ads
“And in order to justify all the radio ad spend, they needed a density of stores in a certain area. And so when they were going to launch a new city, they would have to make sure they had sufficient number of stores to amortize buying radio ads for all the diff…”
Ben Gilbert Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 1:52:46 Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
Hauser: Radio advertising drives customer orders for weeks after campaigns end
“The most important thing to understand is the way radio advertising works and why it's successful is because of the long tail. So when you run ads, when you stop running ads, For three to six weeks after you stop running ads, you still get orders in the DMAs t…”
David Hauser Oct 15, 2022 ▶ 18:28 Details behind David Hauser Selling Grasshopper for $176m and how he acquires companies today
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Evans: Google killed radio ads because it clashed with company identity
“They bought a radio advertising company, and they worked out that they could not make radio work without changing what Google was. So they didn't do it.”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:02 a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big

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