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Triton Digital’s new tool lets publishers see how their audience size compares to other podcasts at the show and episode level.

Late last year, Morning Brew hired Sara Badler, a longtime programmatic advertising executive, as CCO. But the publisher, which built its business on direct, isn’t planning to change its approach to monetization.

Telling, a new podcast media agency and consultancy, is zeroing in on performance marketing in the UK and European markets.

iHeartMedia is betting big on its B2B Podcast Network as a way to reach a coveted and hard-to-reach audience: marketers.

Podcasting is still growing at a fast clip – two times faster than digital advertising overall. But it’s in the midst of a slowdown. In a sign of the podcasting pullback, Thursday’s IAB Podcast Upfront took place over one day, versus last year’s three-day event.

Spreaker is returning to its roots by allowing small independent creators to sign up for free, the podcast platform announced Friday. The move is part of Spreaker’s strategy to become the Google AdSense of the podcasting world.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. 230 Unhurty? The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content. In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 […]

The podcast market is growing like crazy, with ad spend set to break $2 billion by 2023, double the number eMarketer has forecasted for this year. But there are still a few roadblocks standing in the way. Measurement is a big one. “It’s the elephant in the room,” says Elli Dimitroulakos, head of automation in […]

For Panasonic’s B2B division, podcasting has proven to be a fruitful form of lead generation. Although it’s usually not possible to tie listens to specific sales – the B2B sales cycle is notoriously long, and podcasts sit way up at the top of the funnel – Panasonic has seen an increase in time spent on […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Upselling Ad arbitrage – buying web traffic and then selling that inventory on a website for more than it was originally paid for – is universally decried but is also still a lucrative strategy. The enterprise data software company DeepSee published a report showing […]

Podcast monetization is top of mind at Spotify. On Monday, the audio streaming platform introduced the Spotify Audience Network, an audio advertising marketplace where advertisers can reach listeners across ad-supported music, Spotify’s own original and exclusive licensed podcasts and podcasts hosted on Spotify-owned Megaphone and Anchor. Megaphone is the podcast monetization and publishing platform Spotify […]

Here’s 2020 in a nutshell from the investment banker’s point of view: “Turmoil caused acceleration and unexpected change, and it was a breeding ground for opportunity,” says Conor McKenna, a VP at LUMA Partners. After stalling to near zero during the first three months of the pandemic, conversations and negotiations started to pick up again […]

“The Sell Sider” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media.  Today’s column is written by Rachel Reed, senior manager of innovation, and Jessica Roelant, director of ad product, at Meredith Corporation. As audio measurement and ad tech finally catch up to digital standards, podcast […]

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This week on The Big Story, we talk about measurement. Wait, don’t go. We’re going to dive into the topic of measurement by focusing on two exciting new areas: podcasting and addressable TV. On Tuesday, Spotify bought podcast ad tech company Megaphone (once known as Panoply) for a reported $235 million. The ability to measure […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Clair Bergam, associate director at The Media Kitchen. Imagine your client’s direct response business runs like a well-oiled machine. They depend on you to target certain customers with certain products, which you do with […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Pod Race Podcasting is a relatively small market, closing in on a $1 billion run rate. But the category is on fire right now. The New York Times scooped up Serial Productions for a reported $50 million this week in a “creative and […]

Michael Smith joined NPR as chief marketing officer in April in the midst of COVID-19 and on the cusp of a racial justice revolution. Both are massive trends that all companies are grappling with right now. But media companies are also contending with a third giant trend: the shift in how people consume media as […]

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Travel is the backbone for many business categories, including entertainment, events, hospitality and food and dining. But that backbone is broken right now, and may never fully recover. Rafat Ali, founder and CEO of the travel industry publishing company Skift, has his finger on the pulse of the travel industry. It was three years after the 9/11 attacks […]

This story previously said Spotify switched off of Google’s ad stack. A Spotify spokesperson said the company misspoke and that it has only switched off of Google’s order management system, Google Sales Manager. Friction from migrating off of Google Sales Manager in July caused Spotify to take a roughly $10 million revenue hit in Q3, […]

Does this sound familiar? A publisher ad network invests in technology to support more automated, data-driven advertising. Over time, platform revenue supersedes traditional ad sales. Eventually the business pivots hard to tech. It’s a story that played out numerous times in digital advertising over the years, at companies like AOL, Collective and Conversant. Now the […]

As more people increasingly listen to podcasts, the advertiser dollars are following. As a result, podcasting is poised to become a billion-dollar advertising business in the United States within the next three years. Advertising revenue earned by podcast creators grew an estimated 53% in 2018 to $479 million, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and […]

This week’s guest, Tutuwa Ahwoi, will present at AdExchanger’s upcoming Programmatic IO San Francisco, taking place April 29-30, on “How To Harness The Momentum In Podcasting.” Podcasting is increasingly a source of audience and revenue growth for publishers. In this episode Ahwoi, a 12-year veteran of National Public Media, shares lessons learned from her many […]

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Panoply, a podcast network owned by the Slate Group, hopes to attract big brands with the promise of audience-based buying. The podcast network teamed up with Nielsen in July to launch Megaphone Targeted Marketplace (MTM), an exchange that allows marketers to buy podcast inventory across audiences rather than individual episodes. Audience-based buying is nascent in […]

The podcast universe is developing fast, and NPR is shaping it. NPR, which began making podcasts over a decade ago, has a US audience of 11.4 million listeners and 80 million downloads monthly across 36 podcast shows. It’s been ranked consecutively for 13 months as the top podcast publisher by measurement firm Podtrac. “Even before […]

Few people think of National Public Radio as an advertising forum. Certainly that’s still the case with terrestrial radio – where NPR, as a nonprofit, adheres to FCC regulations that allow for the identification of corporate sponsors but not the promotion of their products. But the less-restrictive digital environment and the consistent growth of podcasting […]

Is dynamic ad insertion finally coming to podcasting? New audience measurement guidelines released Thursday by a collection of public radio companies address one of the big concerns advertisers have with the medium – thereby paving the way for new methods of selling and placing ads. “Up until recently, whenever we put an ad into the […]