audio advertising

A weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem…   Happy July 4! This classic AdExchanger comic was originally published on June 22, 2018.

From “hear” to cookieless eternity. On Monday, SXM Media, the combined sales organization that includes Pandora, Stitcher and SiriusXM, launched AudioID, an identity solution powered by its supply-side platform, AdsWizz.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Card-Carrying Commerce Advertisers have a new card to play in the push for interactivity and accountability in audio advertising. Spotify announced a new commerce-focused ad unit called (wait for it) Call-to-Action or CTA Cards. This new format inserts a clickable display ad into […]

Sometimes, capturing a shopper’s heart and mind involves their ears. On Thursday, Place Exchange, a supply-side platform for out-of-home inventory, said it will start facilitating programmatic audio-based ad buys in grocery and drug stores through its partnership with Quotient, a digital ad services platform for retailers. The audio inventory will come courtesy of InStore Audio […]

Rewarded video is a staple of mobile game monetization. So why isn’t rewarded audio a thing? That’s the question Amit Monheit, now the CEO and founder of in-game audio ad startup Odeeo, started asking himself last year after losing his job at a Tel Aviv-based audio content discovery platform during the height of the pandemic. […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Sonia Jain, senior manager of custom research for The New York Times. It’s time to stop overlooking the most obvious place to invest ad dollars in 2021: audio. In our search for comfort, information and […]

And the beat goes on. iHeartMedia acquired programmatic audio marketplace Triton Digital from EW Scripps for $230 million on Wednesday, its second acquisition of a podcast tech company in less than four months. In late October, iHeart bought Voxnest, an audio technology company that provides analytics and programmatic advertising tools for publishers. The year before, […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Zack Zalon, CEO and co-founder of Super Hi-Fi. Audio advertising is stuck in a time warp. There have been no meaningful changes to speak of over the past ten years. In […]

YouTube launched audio ads in beta on Tuesday to help monetize the moments when people are listening to music but not actively looking at their screen. The 15-second ads, which were in a limited test phase since late 2019, are available to all advertisers globally and can be bought through DV360 and Google Ads. Audio […]

Ad viewability is now table stakes, but audibility measurement is still in its very earliest stages. It’s been two years since the Media Rating Council released its standard for digital audio measurement – defined as two continuous seconds of play in a fraud-free environment and with the volume on – and there still aren’t any offerings on […]