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What a year it has been! Despite the ups and downs of the world around us, one thing holds steady - the power of audio. We look forward to sharing more amazing audio moments with you in 2023. Until then, stay safe and Happy New Year!

Did you know today is National Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day? Also known as National Traffic Director's Day, this diligent group of people are celebrated every year on November 2nd in commemoration of the first-ever radio broadcast in the U.S., which occurred on November 2, 1920.

Not only does this celebration mark this historic event, it also acknowledges and appreciates the hard work of broadcasting professionals behind the scenes, working diligently on shows, announcements, and our favorite of all, commercials, keeping us entertained and engaged, all day long.

Today, as you're listening to your favorite radio show, make sure you say a special thank you to the ladies and gents that are making it all happen. At AdLarge we're SUPER grateful for our stellar team, and for the fantastic job they do every day!👏👏👏

We know it's late, but it's still Friday somewhere, so we're good to post our good news! We added another member to the AdLarge team!👏👏 Please join us in welcoming Angelina Mendez to our crew!

Angelina is rocking out in the role of Traffic Coordinator, overseeing and coordinating the commercial copy process for our radio partners. In her position, she'll also work with our agency partners on the collection of copy materials, enter traffic instructions, and distribute commercial logs to our partners and stations every week.

Angelina is no stranger to the audio business, having worked for 10 years at another large radio company in traffic. She took a brief hiatus (and even started a small trucking business!), but her love for radio brought her back to the business, and luckily, right to us!

Angelina resides in Southern CA with her husband, 3 children, and a dog. She loves spending quality time with her family and appreciates a good barbecue, soccer, and going to the river or snow, depending on the season. Gym is life, but food & wine are a close second (and sometimes first, but who's judging!).

Help us welcome Angelina by giving her a shout in the comments. 👇 Stay tuned for the next - it may come sooner than you think! See ya!

No, it's not flashback Friday folks - we've added a new member to our team, so it's ! 🥰 Please help us welcome Matt Turck to the AdLarge team!

You may recognize Matt from his days as the co-founder of Megaphone or as the Publisher at Slate, but these days he's taking on the role of Head of Podcast Growth and Strategy. As one of the people to fully embrace podcasting before it's explosive growth, we're super excited about the insights and knowledge Matt will bring to our already amazing team.

Matt resides in beautiful Sun Valley, ID with his wife Anneliese, his 'bad ass' daughter Parker, and his son Easton, aka "Easy E". When he's not working on helping to grow our podcast portfolio, he enjoys most outdoor activities, including skiing, fly fishing, golfing, biking and hiking. He's even dabbled in curling (though admittedly, his team is not so great). He also enjoys a good glass of wine, or a local brew with his wife and friends. He loves animals, which makes Sun Valley such a perfect place for him and his family.

Help us welcome Matt by giving him a shout in the comments. 👇 Our team is in growth mode, so look for more new faces in the coming weeks! See ya soon! 👋

We have another addition to our team, so you know what that means...it's time for another ! Please help us welcome Brian Egan, our new Director, Digital Content & Strategy! 👋

Brian was already a family friend, having worked with us on the podcasting side of our business, providing unique and highly successful content partnerships for our team. In his new role with AdLarge, Brian is looking forward to contributing to the work we provide for our content partners, with an eye toward expanding our footprint in emerging markets, services, and products.

Brian lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn with his wife, Katie, and their Maine C**n, Magneto. 😺 When not hard at work hosting his own podcast, Glue Guys, Brian and Katie can usually be found eating out or cooking something to eat with friends in the area. Magneto can be found sleeping inside his shoe box under the bed.😴

Help us welcome Brian by giving him a shout in the comments. 👇 Until next time, enjoy the weekend! 👋

It's Friday, and it's time to celebrate! Congratulations to our co-CEO, Cathy Csukas, on being recognized as one of Radio Ink Magazine's Most Influential Women in Radio for 2022! 👏👏

Cathy is no stranger to this list, but remains humbly honored by the recognition. She is a stellar champion for the power of radio and ALL audio, and works diligently every day to share her knowledge and enthusiasm with her staff and colleagues alike.

Please help us wish Cathy a heartfelt congratulations on this amazing accomplishment! ✍️👇

Today, we’re taking a time out. 🙅‍♀️

May 10th marks the start of National Mental Health Awareness Week, so AdLarge is dedicating this day to self-care. We’re encouraging our team to completely disconnect from work and focus on their individual health and well-being.

We'll be back tomorrow after we rest, relax, and recharge! ⚡️

You know where they say some matches are made, right? Well, we've got a new one that we are delighted to share with everybody! We are super excited to partner with the one and only phenom and creator of on the relaunch of the wildly popular Financial Feminist podcast. Here's to kicking ass and breaking the status quo, one episode at a time!

Oops, they did it again! That's right, for the 2nd consecutive year, our co-CEOs, Cathy Csukas and Gary Schonfeld, have been recognized as 2 of the Top 20 Leaders in Radio by Radio Ink Magazine! 👏

On a daily basis, Cathy and Gary demonstrate what it means to lead with passion, empathy, and integrity. Swipe left for some quick quotes from this illustrious pair, and click the link in our bio for the full article. Help us wish them a heartfelt congratulations below! 👇

Our resident money man (aka Chief Revenue Officer) took to the road this weekend for the Cup Series race at , and after the rain, sleet, and snow (oh my!) what a race it was! 🏎 He even got some time in with our good friend Peter, from our partner, Motor Racing Network.

Despite the inclement weather, it's crystal clear that racing is back and in full effect! Get in touch through the link in our bio to be part of the action this season.

Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love... Oh don't mind us, we're just reveling in the magic of love this Friday! Yes, we are excited to share a special edition of because we added a new member to our extended family last weekend! 👩‍❤️‍👨

That's right, our resident Digital Traffic Manager Jennifer Ripps (aka Jen, Ripps, Rippy, or Ripper) married her love, Steven Callahan last weekend in a beautiful ceremony in Westchester County. There were happy tears, awesome food, great music, loads of dancing, and just plain old love and good wishes all around. It was a magical night, for sure. 💖

Help us congratulate this beautiful couple and wish them a lifetime of all of the love they felt on their special day.

P.S. Let us know what you think a good new nickname would be for Ripps...Callie? JC? We're accepting all suggestions. ✍️

Our family is growing, and we're super excited about it! Say hello to our new Controller, Ben Hershberger! 👋

Ben joins the team after a healthy career in finance in both the public and private sectors. As Controller, Ben will be responsible for the day-to-day finances of the company as a whole. 🤑

Ben lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Danielle, and their three (3) children, Kai (7), Cade (5), and Addie (3). In his free time, Ben enjoys running, 🏃enjoying the great outdoors, and coaching sports teams for his children (Go Chargers!).⚾

Help us welcome Ben by giving him a shout in the comments. 👇 Until next time, enjoy the weekend! 👋

Celebrating all of the women across the globe that make the world awesome - happy International Women's Day!

Well, here we are folks - it’s the final week in February, which brings to a close our celebration of African-American pioneers in audio, in honor of Black History Month. Today, we highlight writer and radio producer, Richard Durham.

Born in rural Mississippi in 1917, Durham moved to Chicago with his family at the age of six. He eventually developed a love of writing, finding work in the radio division of the Illinois Writers Project. He wrote for several local shows in the early 1940s and also worked as an editor and journalist for the black-owned Chicago Defender newspaper and Ebony magazine. ✍🏾

After WWII, Durham wrote for a weekly drama on WBBM/Chicago called Democracy USA and created the first soap opera focused on an African-American family, Here Comes Tomorrow, for WJJD/Chicago. He would go on to write and produce the groundbreaking Destination Freedom, a radio drama that featured characters calling for equality a decade before the Civil Rights Movement officially began.

Durham used the weekly Destination Freedom to fight the stereotypes of African-Americans in the media. His inventive scripts highlighted the accomplishments of black leaders throughout history, including Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, and Ida B. Wells. Durham’s recurring theme of social and economic freedom was a revolutionary idea rarely heard on the radio at the time.

Following the demise of Destination Freedom in 1950, Durham worked on a variety of projects, including ghostwriting the 1975 autobiography of Muhammad Ali. Durham was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2007. 🏆

Thanks for joining us on this journey. We hope you enjoyed our celebration of Black History Month and learned a little something too. 😃

We’re back with another week of celebrating African-American pioneers in audio, in honor of Black History Month. Today, we celebrate Jesse B. Blayton, Sr., who made radio history when he became the first African-American to own and operate a radio station in America. 📻

Born in 1897 in Oklahoma, Blayton studied at the Walton School of Chicago and the University of Chicago, earning Bachelors and graduate degrees, respectively. In 1928, after a successful move to Atlanta, he made history for the first time by becoming Georgia’s first African-American Certified Public Accountant.

After teaching accounting for years at Morehouse College, being founding President of Georgia’s Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association, and successfully co-founding and co-owning Atlanta’s first Black night club, Blayton purchased 1,000-watt station WERD/Atlanta for $50,000 in 1949. With his son Jesse Blayton Jr. as station manager, WERD became the first radio station owned and programmed by African-Americans in the US.

WERD’s programming was oriented towards African-Americans, pioneering a new program format composed of mostly rhythm and blues music. Other programming included jazz and gospel music, as well as public service programs, educational shows, church services, radio plays, and community news. During the 1960s, the station shared building space with the Southern Christian Leadership Council and provided a platform for civil rights activists to make their voices heard. 🗣

Blayton retired and sold WERD in 1968, but remained an active community leader until his death in 1977. He was posthumously inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1995, for making radio history and providing a platform for civil rights activists.

Join us next week for the final week of our Black History Month celebration, and learn a little more about what makes this medium so great.

A day late, but we’re back at it, celebrating African-American pioneers in audio, in honor of Black History Month. Today we’re taking a slight pivot and instead of celebrating a person, we honor a thing, and that’s Memphis radio station WDIA - the first radio station in the US programmed by and for African-Americans.

When it hit the airwaves in 1947, WDIA was one of only six stations broadcasting in Memphis, Tennessee. Owned by John Pepper and Dick Ferguson (who were White), the station was initially programmed to appeal to the white demographic with classical, country-western, and various other musical genres. Lacking initial appeal, WDIA began to play Blues records, in a last ditch effort to stave off closure. Featuring shows and music from the likes of B.B. King (who later attributed his future success to the recognition he received from WDIA) and Bobby “Blue” Bland, the station eventually moved to the #2 spot in the market. A permanent switch to all-Black programming in 1949 quickly moved the station into first place, where it remained for years to come.

Nicknamed “the Mother Station of Negroes” for its ongoing success with reaching the African-American demographic, ownership of the station first changed hands in 1957, and was owned by a series of locals until its final purchase by Clear Channel Communications in 1997. Throughout this period, WDIA continued (and continues) to offer content for African-Americans, by African-Americans.

Join us next week as we continue our Black History Month celebration, and learn a little more about what makes this medium so great.

You know we’re all about audio around these parts, and we love to celebrate it, including the people, places and things that have contributed to making it so great. That’s why every Wednesday in February, in honor of Black History Month, we will be celebrating the African-American pioneers that have contributed to the world of radio. Today, let’s meet Jack Cooper.

Otherwise known as ‘the undisputed patriarch of Black radio in the United States’, Jack was the first African-American radio disc jockey. Born in Tennessee in 1888, Cooper had stints as a successful boxer and semi-pro baseball player ⚾️before landing on the vaudeville circuit as a singer and dancer. His work there led to sketch writing, which eventually led to his foray into radio, writing and performing comedy sketches on Washington DC’s WCAP. He eventually created The All-Negro Hour, which premiered on Chicago’s WSBC in November, 1929.

By 1947, his production company, Jack L. Cooper Presentations controlled about 40 hours per week on four different stations in Chicago. He promoted African-Americans as presenters, and was among the first to broadcast commentaries on Negro league baseball games and news targeted at the black community, as well as actively supporting African-American youth organizations.

Cooper retired from broadcasting in 1959, and passed away at the age of 81 in 1970. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2012. 👏

Join us next week as we continue our Black History Month celebration, and learn a little more about what makes this medium so great.

Just when you thought it was safe to take a Friday off, we're back with another feature! Meet our first new hire of '22, Angela Codella!

Angela joins the team as VP of Sales for the Eastern region. Angela is an industry veteran, getting her start in local radio at New Jersey's rock station, The Rat, before heading to NYC to work for CBS Radio at K-Rock and Fresh-FM. She then moved on to successful stints at SiriusXM, Westwood One, and Sun BGI/G Networks, until she found her forever home here with us at AdLarge! ❤️

Angela lives in New Jersey with her husband, Erik, her 7-month-old daughter, Veronica, her French bulldog, Monty, and 2 cats, Echo and Sookie. A true audio fan, when she's not listening to Howard Stern, Angela enjoys rock, alternative, and old-school hip-hop. You can also find her in her garden, coloring, or walking in the park with her daughter and dog.

Help us welcome Angela by giving her a shout in the comments. 👇 Until next time, enjoy the long weekend! 👋

Excited to welcome Honeydew Me podcast to our portfolio! Committed to pushing old boundaries and breaking antiquated rules around women's health, sexual wellness, and self-love (and currently sitting in the #1 spot on Apple Podcasts!), this podcast is a testimony to our ongoing commitment to offering influential voices to engage with audiences. Check out more about this partnership here: https://buff.ly/3nmVDke.

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Hello, and Happy New Year folks! As some of you might recall, we celebrated our 10th anniversary last year with a feature that introduced you to each member of our wonderful team every Friday. Well, don't call it a comeback, but it's Friday, and we've got some new people for you to meet! Please join me in welcoming Annie Sparkman to the AdLarge family! 👏

Annie joins us in the role of Client Services Coordinator. On a regular basis, she will be a liaison to the thousands of radio stations we work with. In addition to collecting affidavits, she will provide support for the wonderful radio products we represent.

A Colorado native, Annie loves being near the mountains, and soaking up anything nature related. When she's not hanging out with her three rambunctious children and her husband (also rambunctious!), she enjoys traveling and singing. She also finds joy in immersing herself in her garden 🌻, reading, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and her monthly book club where she connects with good friends.

There you have it! We love sharing our team with you, so make sure you stop by next Friday. There just might be more folks for you to meet! Until then, have a great weekend!

🎢 The past 11 months have been a wild ride for podcasting and audio advertising.

⏪ There's a lot to cover, so let's take a trip down memory lane and recap some of the top headlines, major milestones, and research highlights.

🟢 Visit https://buff.ly/3xFU3xJ for The Year in Audio Advertising (as told in GIFs). Since there was much that went down this year, comment below with your favorite audio moment from 2021! 👇

ICYMI: Our CEO, Cathy Csukas, shares her thoughts on , and why your brand should be in the mix. Have you downloaded your copy yet? Don't miss out on some valuable information on how to navigate the world of podcasting, and get in touch to learn more! https://bit.ly/3aCvE1n

Sharing is caring and we love sharing our knowledge with the advertiser community here at AdLarge!

For our 2021 Podcast Buying Guide we enlisted the help of some VIPs (that's Very Informative People here) to share their knowledge as well.

Here to answer frequently asked questions from advertisers, our resident experts include:

Bryan Barletta of Sounds Profitable
Brigid Judge of Podsights
Our very own Ilwira Marcizsek

Download the ultimate playbook for podcast advertisers at https://buff.ly/3mTf41K:

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So...we know you helped us celebrate our final last week, but guess what? We added a new member to the family! We love when we're able to add to the team, so please join us in welcoming Amelia Bailey! 🙂

Amelia joins us in the role of Digital Account Success Manager (our first!), and will work very closely with the sales team and our clients to ensure business objectives are being met, and campaigns are performing as scheduled. She'll accomplish all of this while developing and maintaining collaborative workflows and working relationships both internally and externally. We are super excited to watch her shine in this position, and set the stage for additional ASMs in the future.

A former Marketing Associate, Amelia hails from Potsdam, but now resides in Watertown, NY with her boyfriend, Matt, 👩‍❤‍👨 and two feline furbabies, Big Papi and Mosey, aka MoMo. In her free time, she likes to hike and hit the ski slopes in the Adirondacks. She also likes to run, rollerblade, and go for long walks 🚶🏽‍♀, along with cooking, reading, indulging in reality TV, and scouring local garage sales for antiques (tired yet?).

Okay! We honestly think this is the end of our feature! Thanks for joining us on our journey, and for showing us such love along the way. Stay on the lookout for some more audio facts, info and fun soon!

As they say, all good things must come to an end! While we hope to be adding to the team in the (very!) near future, today marks the last with our current roster. 😥 But enough of the sad face, say hello to the last member of the family, Kirsten Murphy.

Kirsten is a recent graduate of Fordham University (Go Rams!) and joined AdLarge in July as Traffic Coordinator. Her responsibilities include entering weekly copy instructions, editing spots, and distributing commercial materials to our producer partners and thousands of radio stations. 📻

Kirsten lives in Bergen County, New Jersey with her family and teddy bear pup, Ellie. In her spare time, she love to travel with friends🧳,, read, listen to podcasts (Supernatural with Ashley Flowers is a current fave!), visit museums, and play dress-up with her unenthused pup. 👗

So there you have it folks! Don't be a stranger around these parts - stick around for more cool content about the world of audio that we love so much. Until then, stay well, and drop a comment 👇 to say hey! 👋🏽