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Technology to
Your Business
Challenges
jācapps develops custom software applications including mobile apps, web applications, and other digital technologies
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Discover
and Define
We work with you to discover your business needs and define the project scope
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Design
and Plan
We combine skill and strategy to make sure your apps look great and are easy to use
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and Build
Our development teams bring your application to life
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moody
Applying Technology to Your Business Challenges

jācapps develops custom software applications including mobile apps, web applications, and other digital technologies

big fm
Discover and Define

We work with you to discover your business needs and define the project scope

town crier wire
Design and Plan

We combine skill and strategy to make sure your apps look great and are easy to use

michigan public
Develop and Build

Our development teams bring your application to life

podmn
Deploy and Support

Once deployed, we continue to provide support for anything regarding your app

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Our highly collaborative, four-step process results in outstanding custom apps. We discover, design, develop and deploy. We work with you to find the inspiration to move forward and to determine what your needs are. Because we are dedicated to your success, we keep a close eye on the apps once they’ve been launched for any potential problems and to help you navigate the inevitable new devices and software updates.

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What To Do If Your Radio Station Goes Through A Midlife Crisis

By Fred Jacobs | April 25, 2025

For a heritage radio station, there’s nothing more exhilarating AND daunting as planning for a big station birthday—the ones that end with a zero. The upside is the opportunity to remind the audience and advertisers you’ve been around a long time, but the downside is reinforcing you’re long in the tooth, doing the same things in the same way you have for decades. Fortunately, there’s a national brand now celebrating its 40th year in business. Rather than going down the tried and true path, they’re burning the playbook. Let’s look into how it’s going.

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A 2020 Lesson? It Could All Be Gone In A Flash

By Fred Jacobs | April 24, 2025

Life is transitory – for radio and for all of us. Maybe it took a year like 2020 to remind us that it can come and it can go – just like that. Now here we are in another “moment” – a very unsettled 2025. What can we learn from those prreviously tumultuous times?

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How AI Can Give Radio Personalities More…PERSONALITY

By Fred Jacobs | April 23, 2025

Internet memes come and go, usually at a rapid pace. So, in today’s JacoBLOG, you might want to pay attention today because next week, it will be something else. AI Action Figures may be just the thing for radio personalities looking to warm things up and bring a sense of fun and whimsy to their shows and the stations they work for. Inspired by a story Chris Brunt dug up, today’s blog post takes a break from our “radio drama.” Hope you enjoy.

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Can Radio Afford To Miss The Short Videos Boat?

By Fred Jacobs | April 22, 2025

Everywhere you look these days, short-form videos are dominating media trends. In today’s blog, I have eye-opening new data from Techsurvey 2025 and a compelling rationale suggesting an investment in video—by radio. Seriously, here’s why.

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For Radio, Will It Be Christmas In April (And Hopefully, May)?

By Fred Jacobs | April 21, 2025

For many radio broadcasters, the first quarter was a struggle, and Q2 is challenging. News out of D.C. on the economy has been turbulent and ever-changing. And those anticipated tariffs haven’t stabilized the way business is being transacted on Wall Street or Main Street. But for sharp radio sales teams, the chaos could translate to results, assuming they make a series of smart, opportunistic moves. For today’s post, our sales expert, Paul Jacobs, grabs the JacoBLOG keyboard to put together a strategic sales plan we hope you’ll give a good look—and a good think.

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What To Do If Your Radio Station Goes Through A Midlife Crisis

By Fred Jacobs | April 25, 2025

For a heritage radio station, there’s nothing more exhilarating AND daunting as planning for a big station birthday—the ones that end with a zero. The upside is the opportunity to remind the audience and advertisers you’ve been around a long time, but the downside is reinforcing you’re long in the tooth, doing the same things in the same way you have for decades. Fortunately, there’s a national brand now celebrating its 40th year in business. Rather than going down the tried and true path, they’re burning the playbook. Let’s look into how it’s going.

Read More

A 2020 Lesson? It Could All Be Gone In A Flash

By Fred Jacobs | April 24, 2025

Life is transitory – for radio and for all of us. Maybe it took a year like 2020 to remind us that it can come and it can go – just like that. Now here we are in another “moment” – a very unsettled 2025. What can we learn from those prreviously tumultuous times?

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our blog

Why AM/FM Radio Will Never Die

April 7, 2025

It’s NAB week for broadcasters, the annual industry gathering in Las Vegas. And it is coinciding with economic uncertainty, highlighted by plummeting stock prices and much hand-wringing. This isn’t the first time radio’s signature conference happened concurrently with an economic meltdown. If you remember the Radio Show in Austin in 2008, this year could be déjà vu all over again. And you know what? We got through that one, too. Here’s the story.

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Spotify’s AI Just Made It Easier for Local Businesses to Skip Radio

April 4, 2025

Spotify fired a massive shot across radio’s bow this week with the launch of powerful new tools that make it ridiculously easy for small businesses to run targeted ads — not only on Spotify but also across other digital music platforms. Here’s what…

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Can Radio Win “The Last Touch/First Touch Challenge?”

April 4, 2025

The battle for dashboard primacy just got more heated. That new Quu report has a key takeaway—the “last touch/first touch challenge” in cars should generate strategic conversations in every radio company, big and small. Today’s blog post breaks it all down, and leaves you with some important action items. I hope you’ll take some time today or over the weekend to read it over and give it a think.

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