It’s table stakes to measure the outcome of an ad campaign. How did it shift awareness and perception of a brand? What actions, like a click or purchase, did it drive? But how do we isolate a campaign’s outcomes, with confidence? No attribution signal or metric is ever 100% deterministic. That is, while we can […]
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In 2025 the Signal Hill Insights team surveyed nine times more video podcast consumers for brand lift studies than in 2024. That’s just one of many changes we observed this past year. Overall we surveyed 29% more media consumers than the previous year, hitting 86,000 in total. The vast majority, 66,000, were monthly podcast consumers,
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Attribution & Brand Lift: Two Great Methods that Measure Better Together “We’re only focused on conversions.” “Sales are our only KPI.” “Attribution moves the needle.” These are things I’ve heard over and over again talking to agencies and brands about their podcast and digital audio ad metrics. It’s usually during a conversation where they’re explaining
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The growing prominence of YouTube in podcasting dominates industry conversations today. And for good reason. It changes much of how we all think about a “podcast.” At Signal Hill Insights, we’ve had a front row seat to watch the growth of YouTube as a podcast platform over the past six years. We first identified its
Let me ask you a question: What comes right before action? Here’s my answer: Intent. When we’re evaluating the effectiveness of a podcasting or streaming audio advertising campaign, a lot of attention gets paid to attributable actions. Did an ad drive someone to visit a website, download something, install an app or finally make a
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How can I grow a larger audience with my podcast? That’s the first question asked by virtually every podcaster, publisher, and brand that ever launched their own podcast. Truth is, there’s no easy answer. Some assume it’s all about marketing. While that is certainly one component, it’s not the whole picture. As Tom Webster points
If I had a dollar for every time I heard a marketer or buyer say that they’re “data-driven,” well, I’d be richer than I am now. Of course, data is the foundation to understanding the impact of ad campaigns. But too often I see ad effectiveness pretty much stop with data. A podcaster, network, agency
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At times a brand needs to share a story that requires more than 30 seconds or a minute to tell effectively. While branded podcasts can be a very effective vehicle for longer storytelling, a challenge lies in building an audience for a new show. There is a middle ground. Rather than trying to carve out
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When measuring podcast and streaming advertising effectiveness, more data is better than less data. That’s because having more data raises our confidence that the results are reliable. It also provides opportunities for deeper analysis. With brand lift studies the simplest way to grow our dataset is to increase the number of respondents – the sample
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As more brand advertisers discover podcasts, they are looking to get a clear view of how their campaigns are working. Unfortunately, the fragmented way many brands and agencies find themselves conducting research to measure podcast advertising effectiveness places limits on their visibility. Unlike the direct response advertisers who paved the way for podcast advertising by
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