Category Archives: Marketplace

Marketplace Offers Special Tax Plan Coverage

As the new tax plan clears the Senate and makes its way to President Trump’s desk for approval, Marketplace is offering special coverage, with detailed analysis of how the proposed changes to the tax code will affect you and your audiences. Don’t miss this opportunity to inform and engage your listeners on this significant legislation.

Now What? That’s the frame of this special breaking news edition of Marketplace. Kai Ryssdal and a host of Marketplace reporters will answer listener questions from across the country, and hear from small business owners and CEOs, with a comprehensive look at the big picture and small details. It’s a timely portrait of the questions intrinsic to the American economy: how we live, save, work, and get ahead.

This one-hour special is available to all APM affiliate stations, regardless of Marketplace carriage. This special coverage is offered in addition to the usual, Marketplace evening broadcast.

Broadcast Details:

Program name: Special Marketplace Tax Coverage: Now What?
Length: One hour
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Broadcast window: Wednesday, December 20, 7 p.m. ET through Sunday, December 24, 11:59 p.m. ET
Promo spots: 0:15 and 0:30 spots available today via ContentDepot. See ‘Promotional Materials.’

Year-End Fundraising Promos Available

We have a variety of new promos available now for your year-end fundraising needs. Download 13 segments on ContentDepot.

Segments include:

  • Segments 1-4: The Splendid Table with Francis Lam
  • Segments 5-6: Performance Today with Fred Child
  • Segments 7-10: Marketplace Morning Report with David Brancaccio
  • Segments 11-13: Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal

Contact your Station Representative with any questions.

Custom promos are also available. Please complete our request form.

 

 

Two Launches Next Tuesday, 9/5!

We’re thrilled to introduce two new offerings next Tuesday! Engage and inform your audience with global economic news, and the technology that’s rewiring our daily lives.

Marketplace Morning Report from BBC World Service
Each weekday at 5:51 a.m. ET, the first feed of Marketplace Morning Report will be broadcast from BBC’s London studios by Anu Anand, with up-to-the-minute global economic news for U.S. audiences. This new first feed combines the BBC’s reach and Marketplace’s tone and style, with fresh content that expands the scope and insight of pressing global business news and trends.

Beginning at 6:51 a.m. ET, Marketplace Morning Report host David Brancaccio will continue to present five, hourly live feeds from New York, with the latest on markets, money, jobs and innovation.

Read more, hear more, and watch a message from Anu.

Marketplace Tech Relaunch
The new Marketplace Tech – hosted by veteran tech reporter Molly Wood – will break ideas, rather than just news, by uncovering themes that transcend the hype in an ever-changing industry.

Based in the Bay Area, Molly asks the smart questions that connect the dots, and offers context for listeners on the impact of tech, business and the digital world in their daily experiences.

The revamped, four-minute daily broadcast offers an extended air window, from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. ET, and makes a perfect complement to your news programming.

Watch a message from Molly.

 

Coming Soon: Marketplace Morning Report from BBC World Service

We’re excited to share the latest Marketplace and BBC World Service collaboration –Marketplace Morning Report from BBC World Service!

3 things you need to know:

  • Beginning Tuesday, September 5, our 5:51 a.m. ET feed will be broadcast live from London by Anu Anand, an American-born BBC journalist with more than two decades’ experience as a foreign reporter. This new first feed – Marketplace Morning Report from BBC World Service – will offer up the up-to-the-minute global economic news audiences in Eastern and Central time zones need to start their days. Hear more.
  • David Brancaccio will continue to host five, live feeds of Marketplace Morning Report from New York, beginning at 6:51 a.m. ET, with the latest on markets, money, jobs and innovation.
  • While only our first, 5:51 a.m. ET feed will be presented by BBC World Service, all six hourly, eight-minute modules complement NPR’s Morning Edition clock.

Press coverage:

New Marketplace Series Explores “Robot-Proof Jobs”

From April 3-21, Marketplace Morning Report‘s David Brancaccio presents a series, “Robot-Proof Jobs,” with reporting from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin on Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace.

In 2012, Brancaccio traversed the U.S. without a single human business transaction for the series, “Robots Ate My Job.” This week, David will catch up with the original series and speak with experts and those who lost their jobs. Next week, he’ll present recent field reporting on the jobs and industries most resistant to automation. He’ll share a glimpse of the economy of the future in the final week, April 17-21.

David Brancaccio is available  to discuss the series the week of April 10. Please contact your Station Representative to schedule an interview.  

Hear more about the series

Ask listeners “What’s your number?” with Marketplace’s Economic Anxiety Quiz

Embed the Economic Anxiety Quiz on your website – new data available now!
 
Marketplace is offering an audience engagement opportunity tied to its election and economy reporting. For the past year, Marketplace has partnered with Edison Research to conduct quarterly national polls measuring how Americans are experiencing the economy. The results of these surveys have informed the Economic Anxiety Index—a number that helps describe how the nation’s economy feels on a personal level.

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New promo for Marketplace’s live presidential debate feed

Marketplace’s live interactive feed of the first presidential debate next Monday, September 26 can be used to drive traffic to your website, and can be promoted on-air with a promo spot by Kai Ryssdal on the “Marketplace PM ON-AIR PROMOS” page on ContentDepot.

Promo copy:
“Kai Ryssdal here. Join me and the Marketplace team for some economic context and analysis of the first Presidential debate. Head to your station’s website on Monday, September 26th for a live interactive chat as the evening unfolds.”

Learn more about the Marketplace live debate module.

 

Marketplace Offers Live, Interactive Feed of Presidential Debate

Marketplace will offer a live interactive feed of the first presidential debate on Monday, September 26. It’s a great way to drive traffic to your website during the debate.

The Marketplace live debate module will include:

  • Live analysis: Kai Ryssdal and the Marketplace editorial team will provide economic context and analysis online throughout the evening; they’ll offer live, online reaction and conversation on the debate itself.
  • Live interaction: Your audience can join the digital conversation and engage directly with Marketplace hosts, editors and reporters during the debate. This will be a moderated, online conversation.
  • Video feed: via PBS’s live television coverage; there will not be Marketplace audio or video.

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2016 Presidential Debate Coverage from BBC World Service

BBC World Service will offer in-depth coverage of the 2016 presidential debates through World Have Your Say and Outside Source:

Monday, September 26: New York with Chloe Tilly
Sunday, October 9: St. Louis with Ben James
Wednesday, October 19: Las Vegas with Nuala McGovern

Debate presenters will file content for all BBC World Service news programs. Coverage will feature advance previews on the day of the debate and continue through post-debate insights and analysis.

 

 

Marketplace Offers Tools for Local Welfare Reform Coverage

Today marks “the end of welfare as we have come to know it,” when President Bill Clinton signed a bill that would dramatically transform the country’s welfare system.

Make a local connection by using the Marketplace database tool to pull charts, graphs and user-friendly information about how welfare spending has changed in your state since the passage of welfare reform. We call it: Your State on Welfare. Features include:

  • Both national and state-specific data detailing how welfare funds are spent (from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) presented as a data tool exclusively by Marketplace
  • Shareable and embeddable charts, graphs and other visuals that explore this important data
  • State pages that highlight key findings

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