Audio advertising is really taking off in the US. Podcast ad spend will surpass $2 billion in 2023, according to the IAB. Currently, podcasts account for nearly one-third of digital audio ad spend, and that projection will increase over time. We spoke with some ad tech professionals in the podcasting…
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At Advertising Week NY 2022, Panelists Donald Albright (President and Co-founder, Tenderfoot TV), Conal Byrne (Chief Executive Officer, iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group), and Shelby Schenkman (Agent in Audio, United Talent Agency), along with moderator and multimedia mogul Charlamagne tha God, examined how podcasts are developing into a thriving medium for…
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AdMonsters has been talking so much about how hot newsletters are that we just had to jump on the trend! We follow a lot of ad-tech industry and adjacent news, and not every happening makes it on AdMonsters.com or to our events. So we launched a weekly newsletter—The Wrapper—featuring a…
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NPR's Serial is widely considered where the podcast trend hit its stride. No surprise then that the NPR team are also on the forefront of podcast monetization. Senior Director of Ad Operations Brett Robinson dives into the challenges his team worked through in building up their program as well as…
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Ops panelist Erica Osher from NPR/NPM explains her team's process for producing and distributing branded audio content. Podcasts are booming, smart speakers are proliferating, and there's been a lot to learn and master in creating branded content that takes off in the often intimate audio format.
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