Social Media Is the New Mainstream Radio

How short-form content is slowly replacing the role of the radio

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As a child, whenever I was in the car with friends, our time was usually spent listening to music. And if there was no aux cable to plug into, that time would almost invariably be divvied between three radio stations.

Between the triumvirate of channels, there was little variation as far as the song selection went. They …