Podcasts stand out among other media for all the marketing possibilities available to brands. The same low barrier to entry for podcast creators also opens the door to a whole world of ways brands can tap into the deep engagement of podcasts. The opportunities stretch well beyond the traditional 30-second or 60-second ads. The other […]
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What do habitual podcast listeners – the true blue podheads – get that other listeners don’t? That’s an important question. If podcasting is going to continue to grow year after year, the industry not only needs to encourage more people to listen to their first podcast, but it also needs to understand how to get
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Let me share two widely held orthodoxies in the podcast industry: Podcast ads outperform nearly any other kind of ad Host-read ads are the best kind of podcast ad Now, there are many, many reasons to complicate these propositions. However, they are repeated widely enough to say that many people think they’re true much of
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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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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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Every content provider knows how fundamentally critical it is to understand your audience. This is beyond true for podcasts. With hundreds of thousands of active podcasts to choose from, success depends on how to get your podcast audience and your advertisers to choose your podcast. The benefits are clear. The more you know about your
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Nearly half of ad buyers (45% to be exact) say that the quality of the podcast ad creative is the most important consideration when choosing a podcast publisher partner. This lands at the top of all factors, beating out audience targeting and even price. I have to admit this was one of the more surprising
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We are all making data-driven decisions. And so we should be. The key thing is choosing the most relevant measure of success. And when it comes to branded podcasts, that measure is not just downloads or impressions. Branded podcasts are something of a unicorn in the media world. And that means they require a different
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One of the privileges of working on the biannual Cumulus Media / Signal Hill Insights’ Podcast Download Report over the past four years has been the opportunity to keep a close eye on changes in podcast platform usage in the US. In particular, we have been able to track YouTube’s emergence as a leading podcast
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As we’ve explored in this series of posts, brand lift is a powerful methodology for measuring and understanding how an ad campaign’s message is resonating with audiences. That goes to show the return on investment when your goals are in the upper-funnel, like awareness, favorability, and intent. Without a doubt, proving that effectiveness is valuable
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