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 […]
If native advertising is a message designed to mimic the form and function of its environment, then there’s almost nothing out there as native as a podcast. As in the early days of radio, hosts often read and personalize an advertiser’s message so that it “feels inclusive, like part of the program,” said Matt Turck, […]
When the IAB set out to craft a set of standards for digital audio advertising seven months ago, it wanted to address the challenge of consumers shifting to mobile and to organize the fragmented digital audio landscape. The effort resulted in the Digital Audio Ad Serving Template (DAAST), and many in the industry welcomed the […]
Podcast consumption swelled from 29 million monthly users in 2014 to 46 million in 2015, according to findings from an ongoing study by Edison Research and Triton Digital. The popular podcast “WTF? With Marc Maron” is happily riding the wave. “We’re benefiting from the shifting media landscape,” said the podcast’s producer, Brendan McDonald. “There is […]
Podcasting is hot, podcast measurement is not. In a bid to address the myriad measurement challenges facing on-demand audio content, Triton Digital has partnered with Edison Research to strengthen its podcast measurement offering. Starting later this year, a new Webcast Metrics On Demand (WCMOD) product will sit alongside Triton’s existing tracking solution and provide publishers […]
