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Can the Benefits of Digital be a Rising Tide for All Audio?

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Thinking back 10 years ago, it was reasonable to expect that the growth of podcast listening and music streaming would take a slice out of the rapidly growing pie of revenue going to digital advertising. Music streaming in particular offered advertisers the same benefits as other digital media. It delivered addressable audio, allowing brands to

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Why Podcasters and Publishers Should Lean into Ad Measurement

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I’m looking forward to Podcast Movement next week where I’ll be presenting “4 Keys for Holistic Campaign Measurement” on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 3:15 PM. I’ve been having a lot of conversations about this with folks from across the industry – including publishers, ad sellers and buyers – and wanted to take it to a

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Making the Case for Podcasts on Younger Demo Ad Buys

We’re seeing a compelling case for podcasts as an increasingly important consideration in any ad campaigns targeting anyone under the age of 35. That’s our key takeaway from working as the research partner with Tom Webster and Bryan Barletta of Sounds Profitable in the new study The Medium Moves the Message: A Comparative Assessment of

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Brand Lift Is the Ad Attention Metric You’re Looking For

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Attention. That’s really what podcasters are asking of their audiences, and therefore that’s what advertisers are buying on podcasts. It’s also why a recent blog post from Dan Misener, co-founder of the podcast growth agency Bumper, got, uh, a lot of attention from the industry. Dan proposes a method to help podcasters to “[m]easure attention,

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Filling Up the Glass: The Outlook for Podcast Advertising

Over the last few months, the tone of a few widely circulated articles about podcasting have taken something of an abrupt turn. Unbridled optimism has been replaced by headlines projecting a rocky road ahead for podcasting or even a sense that podcasting’s best days were somehow behind us. It’s time to put the stories and

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A Partnership that Sounds Profitable for the Podcast Industry

I vividly remember when Bryan Barletta first pitched me his idea for Sounds Profitable. It was August 2020, and I was heading up podcast research at Stitcher, just a couple months before the company was acquired by SiriusXM. Being the height of the pandemic, of course we were on a Zoom call, but I barely

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Ready to (Third) Party for the Future of Podcasting

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I am very excited to join the Signal Hill Insights team, especially right now. I think there is some vital work to do in support of growing podcasting, and Signal Hill is in a central position to do this. I cannot overstate the importance of independent third-party research in the development of any media platform.

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The State of Audio Measurement: Notes from the asi International Radio & Audio Conference

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Last week was asi’s annual audio measurement conference, a gathering of mainly research and measurement experts held this year in Nice. I attended not just because of the location (although of course that didn’t hurt!), but also to understand current and future developments in audience measurement in the audio industry, particularly as it relates to

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If There Was a Marketing Campaign to Promote Podcast Listening, What Would it Say?

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‘Got milk?’ may be the most iconic marketing campaign of all time. For 25 years through 2018, Annie Leibovitz took 180 photos of celebrities from Dennis Rodman to Taylor Swift to Kermit the Frog to Bill Clinton and Robert Dole, all proudly sporting a milk mustache. The campaign stood out for a number of reasons,

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