Podcasts about integral ad science

In this episode, Amir Bormand is joined by Kate Esterman, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Integral Ad Science. Together, they dive deep into the ever-evolving landscape of candidate experience, discussing how market shifts—from candidate-driven to client-driven—impact the way companies engage talent. Kate shares actionable strategies, real-world examples, and her perspective on balancing high-touch human interactions with the scalability of automation, all while maintaining a standout candidate journey. Whether you're scaling your TA team, facing hiring freezes, or juggling high-volume hiring demands, this conversation is packed with valuable insights for anyone passionate about elevating talent experiences. Key Takeaways: Consistency is Key: Regardless of market conditions, ensure candidates walk away wanting to work with your company—even if they don't get the job. Communication First: Regular, transparent communication can't be skipped. A simple follow-up message goes a long way, especially when bandwidth is tight. Leverage the Whole Organization: Activate your employees as brand ambassadors and referrers—especially valuable in tight-knit or small markets. Be Transparent Early: Set expectations around compensation, timelines, and processes upfront to minimize surprises and drive offer acceptances. Personalized Automation: Automation tools are helpful but should never feel robotic—infuse human touch into every automated message. Think Long-Term: Build your CRM and talent community today for tomorrow's hires. Candidate experiences linger far beyond the immediate role. Timestamped Highlights: [00:01:00] Kate introduces IAS and their work partnering with major platforms like TikTok & YouTube. [00:02:08] How market swings—from candidate-driven to surplus talent—impact candidate experience. [00:03:50] Resource constraints and bandwidth challenges: why both hiring booms and slowdowns affect communication gaps. [00:05:30] Creative solutions: How IAS doubled referral bonuses and engaged employees as recruiters in niche markets like Dublin. [00:08:00] Speed, flexibility, and upfront transparency: The pillars of a great candidate experience, regardless of market. [00:12:20] “Follow-Up Fridays”: Kate's simple yet powerful hack to prevent candidates from falling through the cracks. [00:14:00] Can GenAI and automation improve candidate experience? The fine line between efficiency and personal touch. [00:16:30] Why long-term thinking matters: Stories of candidates who declined offers but re-engaged years later. [00:22:30] How talent teams can think like marketers—keeping candidates warm through events, brand building, and community engagement. Quote Highlight: "No matter what market we're in, every candidate should walk away wanting to work for your company—whether they got the offer or not." – Kate Esterman Connect with Kate: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/recruitertech

Jen Wong, COO of Reddit, and Lisa Utzschneider, CEO of Integral Ad Science, joins James Kotecki in the CES C Space Studio to explore the relationship between Reddit and Integral Ad Science and how AI and ad integration is a perfect companion to Reddit. Discover how AI technology can benefit from Reddit's communities and Integral Ad Science's new launch of Brand Safety and Sustainability and Total Media Performance.

Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. The company was sold to Fanatics, the global leader in sports merchandise. Before that, Jesse started and ran a direct-to-consumer online skincare brand that generated $48M in revenue in the first two years. Jesse sold the company to a direct-marketing conglomerate. Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com. Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners. Before his endeavors in the Internet, Jesse worked and lived in Tokyo for six years. Jesse is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was Chapter Chairman and served on the regional board. He was also also a finalist in Retail and Consumer Products for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. The company was sold to Fanatics, the global leader in sports merchandise. Before that, Jesse started and ran a direct-to-consumer online skincare brand that generated $48M in revenue in the first two years. Jesse sold the company to a direct-marketing conglomerate. Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com. Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners. Before his endeavors in the Internet, Jesse worked and lived in Tokyo for six years. Jesse is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was Chapter Chairman and served on the regional board. He was also also a finalist in Retail and Consumer Products for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. The company was sold to Fanatics, the global leader in sports merchandise. Before that, Jesse started and ran a direct-to-consumer online skincare brand that generated $48M in revenue in the first two years. Jesse sold the company to a direct-marketing conglomerate. Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com. Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners. Before his endeavors in the Internet, Jesse worked and lived in Tokyo for six years. Jesse is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was Chapter Chairman and served on the regional board. He was also also a finalist in Retail and Consumer Products for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

In a year marked by heightened political activity and the rise of election-related misinformation, brands face unprecedented challenges in maintaining their reputation and consumer trust. How should businesses and brands advertise safely in an Election year? We speak with Laura Quigley, SVP, APAC, Integral Ad Science, to explore the impact of AI, deep fakes, and stricter regulations on advertising during election seasons. She will also share practical strategies, real-world examples, and essential tips for navigating the complex landscape of election-year advertising while safeguarding brand integrity.    Presented by Ryan Huang This podcast is produced and edited by Anthea Ng (nganthea@sph.com.sg) She produces Mind Your Business, Biz-How-To and Breakfast Special segments on the Breakfast Show. Do contact her for topics: C-Suite, SME, Startups, Health-tech, Sustainability, Property, Intergenerational Family Business, Industry Outlook, Fintech and trending businesses in town.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey CX Nation,In this week's episode of The CXChronicles Podcast #225 we  welcomed Mikhail Hutton, Fractional CEO & CXO based in New York City. Mikhail has spent the last 10+ years working in a variety of amazing companies including Humana, Integral Ad Science, Quantcast, Artemis & several VC backed companies helping them think through and execute on their go-to-market (GTM), customer experience & customer success strategies as they scale their business. In this episode, Mikhail and Adrian chat through how he has tackled The Four CX Pillars: Team,  Tools, Process & Feedback and shares tips & best practices that have worked across his own customer focused business leader journey.**Episode #225 Highlight Reel:**1. Setting your company's vision & mission early on in the journey toward's growth 2. Regardless of what's in your tech-stack, focusing on internal utilization becomes key 3. Why start-up companies need to match their "tech-needs" to their customer journey? 4. Measuring customer onboarding completion rates to gauge downstream success 5. Setting expectations with customers around how they will arrive to their end goal  Huge thanks to Mikhail for coming on The CXChronicles Podcast and featuring his work and efforts in pushing the customer experience & customer success space into the future.Click here to learn more about Mikhail HuttonIf you enjoy The CXChronicles Podcast, stop by your favorite podcast player and leave us a review today. For our Spotify friends, make sure you are following CXC & leave us a 5 star review so we can find new listeners & members of our community. For our Apple friends, same deal -- follow CXCP and leave us a review and rating letting folks know why you love our customer focused content.  You know what would be even better?Go tell one of your friends or teammates about CXC's content,  our strategic partners (Hubspot, Intercom, Zendesk, Forethought AI, Freshworks, TimeToReply & Ascendr) + they can learn more about our CX/CS/RevOps services & please invite them to join the CX Nation!Are you looking to learn more about the world of Customer Experience, Customer Success & Revenue Operations?Click here to grab a copy of my book "The Four CX Pillars To Grow Your Business Now" available on Amazon or the CXC website.For you non-readers, go check out the CXChronicles Youtube channel to see our customer & employee focused video content & short-reel CTAs to improve your CX/CS/RevOps performance today (politely go smash that subscribe button).Contact us anytime to learn more about CXC at INFO@cxchronicles.com and ask us about how we can help your business & team make customer happiness a habit now!Support the showContact CXChronicles Today Tweet us @cxchronicles Check out our Instagram @cxchronicles Click here to checkout the CXC website Email us at info@cxchronicles.com Remember To Make Happiness A Habit!!

Discover how a global media measurement and optimization platform is using AI to ensure brand safety in the midst of high-energy periods like the Olympics and the US election. The CMO of Integral Ad Science talks about how AI is breaking down streaming services on a frame-by-frame basis to provide comprehensive brand safety, and why responsible media is becoming a massive topic of discussion.

Survey from Integral Ad Science indicates social media is the media type, most likely to face serious challenges this year. Results are based on a Sept. 2023 survey of 262 US digital media experts working at ad tech companies, brand agencies, & publishers. Respondents were asked to identify the media type most vulnerable to brand risk in the next year, 52% cited social media. One reason is the risk of ad fraud.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.On today's show, we welcome a long-time VC investor who brings the perspective from both sides of the pond. Fred Destin, the founder of Stride VC, a seed fund operating out of London and currently investing out of its second £123M fund, shares his views on the venture capital industry.Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice (fka Atlas Venture). He's invested in some of venture's big winners, including Deliveroo, Pillpack, Cazoo, Zoopla, Secret Escapes, Integral Ad Science, and more, generating over $1.4B in value to investors and a blended multiple in excess of 7x. Fred has been featured on the Forbes European Midas List a number of times. Fred and I had a fascinating conversation about the hows and the whys of early-stage venture. We discussed:How VCs can navigate the difference between decision points and discovery zones.Why a positive bias towards people can be a driver of returns in venture.Why venture capital is often a poor experience for founders.Why trust, truth, and empathy make for a strong and enduring founder relationship.Why Fred thinks that the most product of a venture capital organization is decisions.Why. and how simplicity can be core to company-building.How to evaluate risk versus reward at early-stage.How younger investors can hone their craft.The future of early-stage venture.Thanks Fred for coming on the podcast to share your wisdom on early-stage investing.

Guideline was formed in 2022 through the merger of Sqad and Standard Media Index under private equity ownership. In our interview, CEO Scott Knoll talks about the strategy behind the roll-up of two leaders in ad spend and pricing data. Knoll, previously CEO of Integral Ad Science, explains his plan to apply greater machine learning and automation to these businesses, which are still heavily focused on old-world media planning processes. The goal is to help brands and agencies add automation and predictive elements to ad spend decisions which have until now been backward-looking. Visit Marketecture.tv to join our community and get access to full-length in-depth interviews. Marketecture is a new way to get smart about technology. Our team of real industry practitioners helps you understand the complex world of technology and make better vendor decisions through in-depth interviews with CEOs and product leaders at dozens of platforms. We are launching with extensive coverage of the marketing and advertising verticals with plans to expand into many other technology sectors.Copyright (C) 2023 Marketecture Media, Inc.

ABERTURA SEGUNDA-FEIRA, 23 DE OUTUBRO DE 2023. EU SOU LEO LOPES ESTÁ NO AR MAIS UMA EDIÇÃO DO CASTNEWS, O PODCAST SEMANAL QUE EM 15 MINUTOS DEIXA VOCÊ INFORMADO SOBRE TUDO O QUE ACONTECE DE MAIS IMPORTANTE NO MERCADO DE PODCASTS NO BRASIL E NO MUNDO. Escalada A estimativa de que a publicidade em áudio digital bata a marca de 7 bilhões e meio de dólares em 2024, uma nova função do Spotify for Podcasters que mostra o número de ouvintes impactados por cada episódio, o lançamento oficial dos podcasts no YouTube Music no Brasil e o novo podcast do Projeto Humanos do Ivan Mizanzuk estão entre as principais notícias que você vai ouvir nesta 38ª edição do Castnews! NOTÍCIAS 1. Pra começar a edição de hoje, a gente vai falar de economia. De acordo com uma pesquisa da Integral Ad Science, o investimento em anúncios no áudio digital tende a crescer – e muito – em 2024. Esse dado vem da pesquisa The Sound of Suitability, realizada em junho deste ano nos Estados Unidos. Os participantes da pesquisa foram ouvidos sobre suas plataformas preferidas pra ouvir músicas e podcasts, os dispositivos onde consomem áudio e qual relação eles têm com as propagandas que ouvem. Como cerca de 63% dos ouvintes engajaram com publicidade no último ano e mais de 20% deles compraram produtos ou serviços anunciados em áudio, o investimento em anúncios em áudio digital deve bater 7,5 bilhões de dólares até a metade de 2024. A pesquisa também mostrou que a maioria dos ouvintes não se incomoda com anúncios em áudio, desde que não sejam muitos (a ponto de atrapalhar a experiência). A resposta do público consumidor de áudio é cada vez maior, e com o aumento da adesão desses ouvintes com as campanhas publicitárias, é natural que a mídia movimente investimentos que também vão ser cada vez maiores. 2. Um estudo realizado pela Acast revelou que os podcasts são a mídia em que os norte-americanos mais confiam. YouTubers ficam em segundo lugar, com 44% dos consumidores confiando nesses produtores – lembrando que muitos criadores populares no YouTube também atuam como podcasters. O estudo mostrou que 75% dos consumidores procuraram podcasters para saber qual a avaliação deles sobre vários produtos, enquanto criadores de mídias sociais no Twitter, Instagram e Facebook ficaram em terceiro lugar, com 62% de confiança do consumidor. Embora os Youtubers tenham a liderança em qualidade de endosso, com 79% do público satisfeito, os podcasters estão logo atrás, com 73%. Agora é esperar pra ver como vão ser esses números daqui pra frente, já que ao longo de todo esse ano a gente acompanhou em tempo-real a expansão dos podcasts pro YouTube. Talvez nós podcasters nos tornemos os influencers definitivos, quem sabe. 3. E na última semana o YouTube anunciou o lançamento de podcasts no YouTube Music do Brasil. Os usuários da plataforma receberam um e-mail com instruções sobre como criar podcasts, com duas opções: criar um programa do zero dentro do Creator Studio ou categorizar uma playlist como um podcast – basicamente o que já tava sendo feito no Estúdio de Criadores lá na gringa, mas que agora tá funcionando da mesma forma por aqui no Brasil. O YouTube, que não é besta nem nada, também incentivou que os criadores de conteúdo usem o selo do YouTube Music para promover canais, sites ou redes sociais. Então agora é oficial, não precisa mais ser videocast pra ser inserido no YouTube. Se você gosta do podcast raíz, puramente em áudio, o YouTube já tem um espaço pra você. E considerando que eles prometeram que essa mudança fosse implementada até janeiro do ano que vem, até que ela veio bem rápido. AINDA EM NOTÍCIAS DA SEMANA: 4. O Spotify for Podcasters introduziu uma nova ferramenta de análise de impressões, que vai permitir que os criadores de conteúdo descubram quantos usuários foram impactados pelo seu podcast no Spotify. Os dados podem ser colhidos individualmente, por episódio, ou do podcast como um todo. A ferramenta está disponível na aba de análises do podcast, onde o podcaster vai ter acesso ao número de visualizações do podcast nos últimos 30 dias e também saber de onde essas visualizações vieram. Além disso, o Spotify for Podcasters atualizou recursos da plataforma, como por exemplo: personalização da página do podcast, estatísticas de impressões e opções de monetização para oferecer mais oportunidades de descoberta, crescimento e receita pros criadores. Agora, depois dessa série de mudanças, os produtores têm chances melhores de destacar um episódio para novos ouvintes e recomendar outros conteúdos no Spotify. 5. A plataforma de gravação de podcasts Zencastr anunciou o fim do seu plano gratuito. Todos os recursos da plataforma, incluindo gravação, pós-produção, hospedagem, monetização, gravação móvel e recorte de IA, vão ficar disponíveis apenas pra quem contratar os planos pagos. O uso gratuito não vai mais existir a partir do dia 16 de novembro. Pra facilitar a transição, o CEO da empresa Josh Nielsen está oferecendo um desconto de 30% na contratação de qualquer plano, que vai ser válido por 12 meses. Os três planos disponíveis atualmente são o Professional, no valor de 18 dólares mensais, o Growth, no valor de 45 dólares mensais, e o Leader por 91 dólares mensais. E pensar que o Zencastr já foi reconhecido por anos como uma das melhores ferramentas gratuitas pro produtor iniciante de podcast… Mas é isso aí, o mercado muda, e as necessidades das empresas também. 6. E o Rodrigo Alves, autor do podcast Vida de Jornalista, anunciou mais uma edição da sua Oficina de Podcasts e Narrativa em Áudio. As inscrições já estão abertas, e as cinco aulas do curso vão ser realizadas entre novembro e dezembro, pelo Zoom. Os interessados na Oficina não precisam atender a qualquer pré-requisito, é só se inscrever e participar. Durante as aulas, os participantes vão aprender todas as etapas da produção de um podcast, incluindo planejamento, pauta, entrevistas, roteirização, edição e monetização. Todas as informações sobre datas, valores, descontos e o formulário de inscrição, você encontra na íntegra lá no portal do Castnews. E MAIS: 7. A premiação Latin Podcast Awards 2023 anunciou os vencedores desta edição, e infelizmente nenhum podcast brasileiro subiu no pódio pra levar um prêmio. Eu digo que tá faltando participação da podosfera brasileira, viu? Porque potencial e podcast bom a gente tem, e muito! Mas, ao mesmo tempo, não sei se é pra nós esse tipo de premiação, então, fica aqui um comentário aleatório. A premiação celebrou criadores de conteúdo que se destacam na América Latina, na Espanha e nos Estados Unidos, em 31 categorias diferentes. Arte, Notícias, Sociedade e Cultura, Educação e True Crime são algumas delas. Alguns dos vencedores foram o “Cuentos infantiles con La Tía Botas” que levou como Podcast do Ano, “More Than a Movie: American Me” como Podcast Revelação do Ano, e “A Little Bit of Everything with Me!” como o Melhor Podcast em Inglês. Parabéns a todos os podcasters latinos que têm feito um trabalho excepcional e que tem ganhado cada vez mais força! 8. E nas dicas de produção da semana, o tema são os podcasts corporativos (ou empresariais). Você acha que um podcast de marca serve só pra autopromoção e afirmação de autoridade? Então tá perdendo a chance de conhecer várias outras utilidades que a nossa mídia pode ter pra uma empresa. A equipe do Castnews reuniu não uma, não duas, mas 13 aplicações diferentes pra um podcast de marca. E quem também bateu um papo com a gente na última semana sobre podcasts corporativos, foi o Marcio Brant, CEO da WePod. Tem bastante coisa legal pra ver lá no portal, não deixa de conferir, porque é sempre bom dar uma estruturada na nossa mídia e ver o que anda acontecendo pela podosfera – mesmo que não seja exatamente o seu nicho. O produtor que é esperto consegue tirar insights de qualquer lugar. HOJE NO GIRO SOBRE PESSOAS QUE FAZEM A MÍDIA:  9. Uma nova apresentadora foi adicionada à bancada do podcast Código Aberto, produzido pelo B9. Pra quem não conhece o programa, o Código Aberto fala sobre o futuro dos negócios em conversas francas com grandes personalidades da indústria, e em temporadas passadas era apresentado pelo casal Carlos Merigo e Ju Wallauer. O Merigo continua como host do programa, mas na temporada que está sendo lançada, ele divide a cadeira com a empresária Ana Couto. O tema dessa nova temporada é branding, e a Ana Couto é uma grande referência em branding no Brasil, então ela tem muita base pra falar sobre o tema e fazer uma apresentação bem legal do conteúdo. Alguns convidados dessa temporada são profissionais de empresas como Mastercard, Hotmart, Pinterest, e FARM, e os primeiros episódios já estão disponíveis nas principais plataformas de áudio. 10. Entre os dias 18 e 21 de outubro aconteceu em Recife a quinta edição do Festival Rec'n'Play, e em um dos dias do evento a programação teve um grande foco em podcasts. Entre os convidados e palestrantes estavam o Thiago André do podcast História Preta, o Caio Santos da produtora Griô Podcasts, a editora de projetos Janaína Oliveira, e a Lina Fernandes com o Emerson Saboia ministrando uma oficina de produção de roteiros pra podcast. Ao total, foram cinco painéis do festival abordando estratégias de crescimento e monetização de podcasts, cases de sucesso, workshops e o tema do evento desse ano, que foi “Pontes para Conectar Margens” – com o objetivo de alcançar cada vez mais as periferias através de iniciativas tecnológicas. Um evento muito bacana que com certeza deve ter sido muito recompensador tanto pros participantes quanto pro público. Que mais encontros como esse aconteçam em cada vez mais lugares do Brasil. SOBRE LANÇAMENTOS: 11. O Ivan Mizanzuk anunciou a data de estreia da nova temporada do podcast Projeto Humanos: O Caso Leandro Bossi, e dessa vez ele está fazendo as coisas de um jeito um pouco diferente. Como o caso Leandro Bossi tem ligação com o Caso Evandro, que foi tema da quarta temporada do Projeto Humanos, ao longo dessa semana vão ser publicados 5 episódios de introdução à temporada, com atualizações sobre o Caso Evandro e também o caso dos emasculados de Altamira. Os episódios do Projeto Humanos: O Caso Leandro Bossi vão ser lançados no Globoplay a partir do dia 31 de outubro, mas como não é conteúdo exclusivo Globo, também vai estar disponível em todas as principais plataformas de áudio – como um bom podcast deve ser. 12. Ex-funcionários da Disney lançaram um podcast chamado “Keys to The Kingdom”, que revela segredos sobre como é trabalhar nos parques temáticos da Disney World. O podcast é apresentado pela Amanda Lund e pelo Matt Gourley, que trabalharam nos parques. Os hosts falam tudo sobre a realidade por trás da experiência de trabalhar em um ambiente que parece um conto de fadas, mas que, no final do dia, é um emprego como qualquer outro. Responsabilidades, rotinas, horários, enfim. A série vai ser lançada semanalmente, e os primeiros episódios já estão disponíveis nas principais plataformas de áudio em inglês. RECOMENDAÇÃO NACIONAL:  13. E a recomendação nacional dessa semana vai pra quem faz questão de estar sempre atualizado nas principais notícias da área de Ciência de Dados, inteligência artificial e tecnologia. O podcast Data Hackers é uma extensão da newsletter e da comunidade Data Hackers, a maior do Brasil sobre dados. O feed onde o podcast é publicado, também publica o Staff Plus e o Data Hackers News, que é muito parecido com o Castnews, e sintetiza as principais notícias do mercado em episódios de 15 a 20 minutos toda semana (mas eles dizem que não é inspiração no nosso programa, então estamos acreditando. [risos] E até se fosse, também, não teria problema nenhum! Seria uma grande homenagem pra nós!). Então se a área de tecnologia e dados é do seu interesse, não deixa de assinar o feed do Data Hackers no seu agregador de podcast preferido pra receber um monte de conteúdo bom toda semana. E você sempre pode divulgar trabalhos e oportunidades dentro da indústria do podcast, aqui no Castnews. 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President Joe Biden's economic approval numbers have risen modestly in the wake of efforts by the White House to promote what it calls “Bidenomics.” Still, a substantial majority of respondents to the CNBC All-America Economic Survey still disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy. Brian Deese, MIT Innovation fellow and former National Economic Council Director under President Biden, discusses the state of the U.S. economy, the impact of Bidenomics, and why results haven't been reflected in polls. Aneesh Chopra, first U.S. chief technology officer in the Obama administration and CareJourney president, discusses X's efforts to win back advertisers with a new deal with Integral Ad Science. CNBC's Steve Kovach also has an inside look at the new strategy. Plus, Disney's ESPN is launching a betting sportsbook and Lyft has a tumultuous quarter, but veteran rider Andrew Ross Sorkin has the top tips ride-share users need.12:20 - Brian Deese29:36 - How to find your personal Uber rating32:32 - Aneesh Chopra In this episode:Brian Deese, @briandeeseNECAneesh Chopra, @aneeshchopraMelissa Lee, @MelissaLeeCNBCAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

On this episode, host Ryan Dull is joined by Beth Greenberg, Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Integral Ad Science, to hear how she transformed her organization's recruiting process to align with company values. To adopt this values-based recruiting approach, Beth offers these guiding principles: - Values-based recruiting starts with understanding what your organizational values actually are. You can't lean into a cultural vision if you don't have one in the first place. - Pre-briefs and debriefs ensure the whole team is aligned on what the must-haves are when interviewing a candidate. - Even recruiters who don't conduct interviews should be trained in the interview process to fully immerse them in the values they should look for in candidates. - Spend time with the team you're recruiting for, like sales or finance, to better understand their needs, operations and standard procedures. This hiring approach brings in candidates who are not only competent in their skills, but fit the organizational culture and who can drive company growth. Beth Greenberg - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethmichelegreenberg/ Integral Ad Science - https://www.linkedin.com/company/integralads/ Integral Ad Science | Website - https://integralads.com/ Ryan Dull - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-dull-743a8b4/ Sagemark HR | LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sagemark-hr/about/ This episode is brought to you by Sagemark HR. Sagemark HR can help you: ✔ Improve your talent practices and make better, more informed people decisions. After 20+ years of experience leading Recruiting and Talent Acquisition across a wide variety of industries, I've seen enough hires (over 100,000 to date) to know that hiring decisions truly can make or break an organization. ✔ Identify opportunities to not only improve your talent practices, but also deliver tangible business results. We understand every organization is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all magic solution. So we listen first and identify the gaps and sticking points in your current process before ever recommending a solution. ✔ Bridge the gap from “traditional” to modern recruiting, without the painful learning curve. We believe recruiting, talent and HR technology is a deep well of untapped business potential, and our mission is to help you identify and implement those hiring tools in a way that works for you. If you're interested in learning more, you can reach me at: www.sagemarkhr.com ✉ ryan.dull@sagemarkhr.com #Talent #Recruiters #Recruiting #HRTech

Tony Marlow is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of LG Ads. He previously worked at Integral Ad Science as a Chief Marketing Officer. Tony Marlow attended the University of Wollongong. 00:00 - 00:24 In the context of using data to ensure relevance, I think that's one of the big advantages of connected television versus the traditional version. Traditional TV arguably was just "spray and pray". —Tony Marlow 00:25 - 00:41 Welcome to Peppershock Media's Marketing Expedition Podcast 00:42 - 01:22 Tony's Background 01:23 - 15:20 Marketing Essentials Moment: Estimating Process as an Agency 15:21 - 15:55 Welcome to the show, Tony! 15:56 - 20:18 An overview of Tony's journey helping marketers in the infancy of online marketing 20:19 - 26:13 Having the opportunity to be performance storytellers as marketers 26:14 - 29:54 Relevance drives effectiveness 29:55 - 34:12 Tailoring your messaging based on viewership habits 34:13 - 37:56 Generative AI capabilities 37:57 - 41:46 Feeding the AI learning machines 41:47 - 42:36 Kitcaster is your secret weapon in podcasting for business. Your audience is waiting to hear from you! Click to apply for a special offer for friends of this podcast. 42:37 - 48:02 The trend toward ad-supported models 48:03 - 51:57 Subscription cycling 51:58 - 53:50 Optimizing discoverability and voice search features 53:51 - 58:47 Shift in podcast listenership 58:48 – 1:03:21 Brand demand and field command 1:03:22 - 1:06:38 Career aspirations 1:06:39 - 1:07:30 Reach further with LG Ads Solutions. Visit: lgads.tv 1:07:31 - 1:08:41 Thank you so much, Tony! Share this podcast! 1:08:42 - 1:09:12 Give us a Review! Enjoy your marketing journey! 1:09:13 - 1:09:59 Join The Marketing Expedition Community today! #digitalmedia, #thoughtleadership, #digitaladvertising, #advertisingandmarketing #ctv #ott #ctvadvertising #advertising #branding #marketing #business #entrepreneur

In this episode of The Next CMO podcast, I speak to Khurrum Malik, the CMO of Integral Ad Science (IAS) and the science of attention and how it impacts your advertising strategy. IAS delivers the industry's most actionable data to drive superior results for the world's largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms.Learn more about the IAS research study on attention here: https://integralads.com/insider/driving-outcomes-viewability-research/Learn more about Khurrum MalikLearn more about Integral Ad ScienceFollow Peter Mahoney on Twitter and LinkedInLearn more about Peter's company, AcceleratusLearn more about Planful for MarketingJoin The Next CMO CommunityRecommend a guest for The Next CMO podcastProduced by PodForte

In this episode, Jesse Stein joins me to discuss the latest content marketing hacks, and the best practices when it comes to gaining market share in the digital space.Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com. Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners. Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo.Jesse gives listeners actionable tips on: [2:55] How to create a system for content marketing and why it matters [4:15] Leveraging AI to help you with content marketing [9:30] Keeping your ego out of your content  [16:50] Not creating duplicate content [19:05] How to talk about your wins without being overpowering  [23:05] Creating content that is authentic and relatable  [27:55] Meeting your audience where they are [35:35] Learning from your mistakes and trying again [40:00] Jesse's book review [42:00] One key takeaway to implement right away Resources mentioned in this episode:The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott PeckConnect with Jesse here: www.instagram.com/audience.co www.twitter.com/audience.co https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessejstein/ www.Audience.co Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com 

In this episode, Jesse Stein joins me to discuss the latest content marketing hacks, and the best practices when it comes to gaining market share in the digital space. Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer.  Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com.  Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners.  Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. Jesse gives listeners actionable tips on: [2:55] How to create a system for content marketing and why it matters [4:15] Leveraging AI to help you with content marketing [9:30] Keeping your ego out of your content  [16:50] Not creating duplicate content [19:05] How to talk about your wins without being overpowering  [23:05] Creating content that is authentic and relatable  [27:55] Meeting your audience where they are [35:35] Learning from your mistakes and trying again [40:00] Jesse's book review [42:00] One key takeaway to implement right away Resources mentioned in this episode: The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck Connect with Jesse here: www.instagram.com/audience.co www.twitter.com/audience.co https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessejstein/ www.Audience.co Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com 

In this episode, Jesse Stein joins me to discuss the latest content marketing hacks, and the best practices when it comes to gaining market share in the digital space. Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures. Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer.  Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018. Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com.  Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners.  Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us. Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. Jesse gives listeners actionable tips on: [2:55] How to create a system for content marketing and why it matters [4:15] Leveraging AI to help you with content marketing [9:30] Keeping your ego out of your content  [16:50] Not creating duplicate content [19:05] How to talk about your wins without being overpowering  [23:05] Creating content that is authentic and relatable  [27:55] Meeting your audience where they are [35:35] Learning from your mistakes and trying again [40:00] Jesse's book review [42:00] One key takeaway to implement right away Resources mentioned in this episode: The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck Connect with Jesse here: www.instagram.com/audience.co www.twitter.com/audience.co https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessejstein/ www.Audience.co Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com 

Tony Marlow is the Chief Marketing Officer for LG Ad Solutions, where he uses data-driven insights to lead all aspects of marketing and communications. Since the beginning of his career, Tony has always been interested in technology, thought leadership, and helping people understand why they should embrace emerging tech. He has served as CMO at Integral Ad Science, CMO at Data Axle, Global Head and VP of B2B Marketing at Yahoo, and a consultant for Nielsen Online. As an avid athlete, his training for triathlons and Iron Man races has taught him a lot about efficiency in planning and tenacity in execution, which he brings to his professional life as well.In this episode, Alan and Tony discuss "The Big Shifts" in consumer viewing behavior and how CTV is accounting for the new ways in which people consume media. LG Ad Solutions is a CTV advertising company with over 150 million smart TVs worldwide, where they deliver video and native units on the biggest screen in the home. The first phase of the shift in consumer viewing behavior coincided with the beginning of the pandemic when people were staying home and streaming more than ever before. The second phase is happening now, with people moving away from subscriptions and leaning into ad-supported TV to get free or less expensive on-demand TV. In contrast to the "spray and pray" approach of traditional TV advertising, the increased user data associated with CTV allows advertisers to reach a target audience with more sophisticated and relevant creative messaging and then track performance and brand objectives all in one place. Tony highlights the importance of marketers being cognizant of how they are connecting with their audience on the different screens they are engaging with, as well as finding the balance between relevancy and data privacy.In this episode, you'll learn:Causes and Impacts of "The Big Shift" in consumer viewing behavior Performance and optimization opportunities with CTVHow LG is balancing ad relevance with data privacyKey Highlights: [02:00] Bike, swim, and rum[03:20] Tony's path to LG[07:45] What are LG Ad Solutions?[10:20] What should we know about the big shifts happening in TV?[16:30] We can do TV better.[19:50] Balancing ad relevance with a sense of privacy[22:00] Data-informed ads[24:30] The correlation between relevance and effectiveness[25:30] It's less of a walled garden and more of a gated community.[28:10] Brand safety in CTV[30:40] Performance and optimization opportunities with CTV[35:15] How high-performance training impacts Tony's life[37:50] The Eisenhower Matrix[41:30] All marketing is storytelling.[42:00] Causes to watch[48:00] We're on the precipice of a new era of human productivity with AI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Segunda-feira, 10 de abril de 2023. Eu sou Leo Lopes e está no ar o décimo episódio do Castnews, o podcast semanal de notícias para podcasters. Aqui você ouve, toda segunda-feira pela manhã, um resumo das principais notícias sobre o mercado de podcast no Brasil e no mundo. O perigo das fraudes publicitárias no mercado de áudio, o surgimento de anúncios criados por inteligência artificial, o potencial de publicidade nos audiobooks e um curso de podcast para criadores quilombolas estão entre as principais notícias que você vai ouvir nesta edição do Castnews! Notícias 01 – No primeiro bloco desta edição, vamos trazer três notícias que foram destaque na última semana relacionadas ao crescente mercado publicitário nas mídias em áudio. A primeira delas relata um fato novo e preocupante: a descoberta de fraudes publicitárias que já estão causando prejuízo a anunciantes. A empresa de segurança digital DoubleVerify descobriu um esquema chamado “BeatSting”, uma suposta fraude de áudio que custou até 1 milhão de dólares por mês para anunciantes desprotegidos. Outras empresas de segurança, como a Integral Ad Science, também estão investigando o tema. O BeatSting foi encontrado em mais de 60 aplicativos de celular, onde as impressões de anúncios são forjadas para parecer que existem mais acessos do que realmente existem. A fraude em anúncios de podcasts é menos comum do que em outros canais, mas tá se tornando mais preocupante à medida que a compra de anúncios automáticos fica mais popular. Mas não é todo mundo que tá com esse receio, não. O executivo de marketing Grant Durando da Right Side Up declarou pra imprensa que qualquer esquema de fraude publicitária vai ser suprimido pela indústria muito rápido com ações bem simples. Vamos acompanhar. Ler a notícia completa 02 – E ainda em publicidade, a gente vai falar de livros em áudio, os audiobooks. Eles estão cada vez mais populares, com um crescimento constante de receita, e agora grandes empresas como o Spotify e a Audible estão explorando a possibilidade de usá-los como veículos para propagandas. O Spotify comprou a distribuidora Findaway de livros em áudio, o que já é um indicativo desse interesse deles de testar esses anúncios, e enquanto isso, a Audible já está conduzindo testes limitados de anúncios na plataforma. Na opinião de alguns especialistas de marketing, manter os audiobooks sem anúncios é a melhor opção, já que é mais fácil fazer as pessoas pagarem pelos audiolivros do que engajarem com uma propaganda. E você, o que acha disso? A gente quer entregar as notícias, mas também abrir espaço pro debate. Fala pra gente a sua opinião, comenta nas nossas redes sociais, marca a gente no Twitter. Ler a notícia completa 03 – A plataforma de marketing Adthos anunciou um sistema que gera anúncios de áudio completos usando inteligência artificial. Os anunciantes só precisam enviar um resumo da ideia em um portal de autoatendimento (bem parecido com o das IAs que criam imagens) e o Adthos usa a tecnologia do GPT-4 da OpenAI, para gerar o roteiro, adicionar vozes, efeitos sonoros e música. O resultado é um anúncio totalmente produzido pelas máquinas e disponível pra reprodução instantânea. O sistema ainda tá em fase de teste, mas a OpenAI já defendeu o produto e disse que ele funciona. Do jeito que as IAs estão trabalhando, talvez logo logo não seja mais eu aqui apresentando o programa. Bora ver… Ler a notícia completa AINDA EM NOTÍCIAS DA SEMANA: 04 – A Liveware.IO divulgou na última semana um relatório com informações sobre as principais empresas de hospedagem de podcast, com base em episódios lançados. Esse relatório é atualizado todo mês em parceria com a Podcast Index e a Open Podcast Analytics, e diz quem é que tá na frente da “corrida” das empresas em lançamentos de podcast e captação de ouvintes. Na última atualização, o Spotify saiu na liderança com 23% dos novos episódios lançados, seguido pelo Buzzsprout com 9%, o Spreaker com 6%, o Omni Studio com 4,8% e o Libsyn com 4,7%. A análise levou em conta quase 2 milhões de episódios publicados em março de 2023 (o que também representou um aumento de 5% em relação a fevereiro). Ler a notícia completa 05 – E o Zencastr anunciou mudanças no seu plano gratuito que já entraram em vigor. As alterações incluem um limite de 2 horas de gravação de áudio e vídeo por mês, armazenamento de gravação de até 31 dias, a remoção da sincronização com Dropbox e Google Drive, e o fim do acesso ao Zencastr Classic para usuários do plano gratuito. A empresa justificou as mudanças dizendo que elas servem pra incentivar os criadores de conteúdo a crescerem cada vez mais, e monetizar seus podcasts. Mas é claro que o Zencastr ainda oferece opções de upgrade para planos pagos, e até facilita a contratação, com um descontinho de 15% nos 3 primeiros meses. Fica a critério do podcaster continuar no plano gratuito, ou migrar para os planos mais robustos (e pagos). Ler a notícia completa 06 – Agora olha que notícia legal: numa parceria com a Embaixada e Consulados dos Estados Unidos no Brasil, a organização sem fins lucrativos Far Away Projects selecionou 30 representantes de comunidades quilombolas pra participar do programa de podcast ‘Minha Vida Quilombola' entre abril e setembro desse ano. O programa vai capacitar como produtores de podcast até aqueles participantes mais sem experiência, desde o planejamento e a criação de conteúdo em áudio, até a distribuição de mídia independente. O objetivo da iniciativa é dar voz a histórias e experiências quilombolas, e também promover a conscientização e respeito pela diversidade dessas vozes. Por aqui estamos ansiosos pra ouvir as histórias que as comunidades quilombolas podem compartilhar com a gente no Minha Vida Quilombola, e também pra acompanhar o impacto positivo desse projeto. Ler a notícia completa E MAIS: 07 – O Spotify anunciou o fim do Spotify Live, serviço que foi comprado por quase 60 milhões de euros em 2021, e era concorrente do Clubhouse. O aplicativo teve várias mudanças de nome, passou por muitos testes, foi integrado no aplicativo principal do Spotify… Mas agora vai ser desativado. O Spotify ainda vai oferecer áudio ao vivo, só que de maneira limitada; em grupos de escuta no aplicativo principal. Ler a notícia completa 08 – E pra abordar a onda revoltante de violência nas escolas que têm acontecido pelo Brasil no último mês, a Natuza Nery, que comanda o podcast “O Assunto” do G1, recebeu a professora universitária Telma Vinha pra conversar e analisar o por quê dessa barbárie estar acontecendo cada vez mais. O episódio discutiu as características dos autores desse tipo de ataque a escolas, a falta de perspectiva de futuro que os criminosos têm, o adoecimento psíquico dos jovens e a cultura da violência. É um episódio muito necessário pra aprendermos a lidar com uma realidade muito dura, especialmente se a gente quer entender a raiz dessa violência e evitar o problema. Então corre lá no G1 ou em qualquer agregador da sua preferência, e já coloca o episódio #931 dO Assunto pra ouvir na sequência. Ler a notícia completa 09 – Mas mudando de assunto pra um tema mais leve, o Danny Brown do Pod Chat News escreveu um artigo sobre os 3 principais mitos da produção de podcast. Ele compartilhou alguns insights bem legais sobre a experiência dele ao longo de 14 anos na indústria, e essa é uma boa oportunidade de você aprender sobre podcasting com quem sabe do que tá falando, ao invés de cair em papo de “guru” da internet. Um dos mitos mais bobos que existem e que ainda tem gente que cai, é de que você precisa do equipamento mais caro pra fazer um podcast.Vou te dar um spoiler: isso é mentira! Esse e outros mitos você encontra no artigo completo, que a gente traduziu e postou lá no portal do Castnews. Ler a notícia completa HOJE NO GIRO SOBRE PESSOAS QUE FAZEM A MÍDIA: 10 – Uma boa notícia! A nossa querida Ira Croft está de volta ao programa Aconteceu Comigo, do Mundo Freak Confidencial, após uma pausa para cuidar da saúde dela, que passou por poucas e boas. Na nova temporada, a Ira tá prometendo relatos aterrorizantes de contatos paranormais, com convidados especiais e uma atmosfera arrepiante, sentada na frente de uma lareira na companhia de sua gatinha preta Ravena. E, atendendo a pedidos dos ouvintes, o programa agora é semanal, com 2 relatos paranormais por episódio. O primeiro episódio da temporada já está disponível em todas as principais plataformas de podcast e áudio. E a gente tá muito feliz de ver a Ira de volta à ativa. Vou aproveitar, inclusive, pra mandar um abração pra ela. Ira, um grande abraço, e é bom te ver de volta. Ler a notícia completa SOBRE LANÇAMENTOS: 11 – Você quer aprender a falar inglês além do “the book is on the table”? Então vai lá e assina no seu agregador preferido o podcast “Inglês em meia hora”, apresentado e roteirizado pelo professor Luciano Cunha. O programa foi lançado dia primeiro de abril (mas não é mentira não, tá? O podcast é de verdade) e já tem dois episódios no ar. O primeiro falando do temido verbo “to be”, e o segundo falando sobre classes gramaticais. Os episódios têm cerca de 30 minutos de duração e o objetivo é ensinar inglês para os ouvintes de forma direta e simplificada. A produção tem a mão do Vítor Soares, do podcast “História em meia hora”, e a edição fica por conta do Matheus Herédia do New MediaLAB. Um conteúdo que promete ser muito didático e muito bacana, então fica de ouvido atento e aprenda um novo idioma enquanto toma o seu little coffee or tea. Ler a notícia completa 12 – E como não só de podcasts vive o nosso quadro de lançamentos, a gente também vai falar de equipamento novo. A RØDE lançou o Wireless ME, um sistema compacto de microfone sem fio com vários recursos inovadores, como o GainAssist e microfones embutidos no transmissor e receptor. O sistema oferece áudio cristalino, transmissão digital, bateria recarregável e compatibilidade com câmeras, computadores e smartphones. Além disso, ele usa algoritmos inteligentes no processador de áudio que controlam a nivelação automaticamente, evitando que o áudio do usuário seja cortado e garantindo o equilíbrio da gravação. Lá no site da RØDE o Wireless ME já tá disponível pela bagatela de 179 euros, e tem envio internacional para o Brasil. Ler a notícia completa RECOMENDAÇÕES NACIONAIS: 13 – Essa vai pra você, amante do cinema: o podcast Cinem(ação), apresentado pelo Rafael Arinelli, acabou de alcançar a marca histórica de 500 episódios, que foram publicados ao longo de 11 anos de atividades. Para comemorar o quinhentão, foi produzido um episódio especial que simula a criação de um filme do zero, com dicas incríveis de profissionais da área. Então é bom você preparar a sua pipoca, colocar os fones de ouvido e embarcar nessa oportunidade única de aprender mais sobre cinema com o Cinem(ação). O episódio já está disponível nas principais plataformas de podcast e também, é claro, no site do Cinem(ação). Ler a notícia completa E não se esqueça que você também sempre pode divulgar o seu podcast com a gente no nosso e-mail, e também trabalhos e oportunidades de podcast aqui no Castnews. 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Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures.Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. The company was sold to Fanatics, the global leader in sports merchandise.Before that, Jesse started and ran a direct-to-consumer online skincare brand that generated $48M in revenue in the first two years. Jesse sold the company to a direct-marketing conglomerate.Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018.Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com.Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners.Before his endeavors in the Internet, Jesse worked and lived in Tokyo for six years.Jesse is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was Chapter Chairman and served on the regional board.He was also also a finalist in Retail and Consumer Products for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us.Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

Jesse has founded, operated and sold multiple online ventures.Jesse started SportsMemorabilia.com, growing it from a raw domain into the world's biggest autograph store and a Top 500 Internet Retailer. The company was sold to Fanatics, the global leader in sports merchandise.Before that, Jesse started and ran a direct-to-consumer online skincare brand that generated $48M in revenue in the first two years. Jesse sold the company to a direct-marketing conglomerate.Jesse is also Founder & CEO of DietSpotlight.com, a nutrition website with more than 130 million visitors and an Inc 5000 fastest-growing company in 2018.Jesse also purchased, developed and sold category-defining domain names, including Hobbies.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Biking.com.Before that, Jesse was Co-Founder and CEO of Soho Digital, a $32M digital agency with 200+ clients. He sold Soho Digital to a portfolio company of Insight Venture Partners.Before his endeavors in the Internet, Jesse worked and lived in Tokyo for six years.Jesse is a member of Young President's Organization (YPO), where he was Chapter Chairman and served on the regional board.He was also also a finalist in Retail and Consumer Products for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.Jesse is an angel investor in Integral Ad Science, TMRW, Dstillery, Data.world, SKTCHY, Blanket and WhereBy.Us.Jesse holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute and a BA, with Honors, in Sociology and Asian Studies from UC Santa Barbara and Sophia University in Tokyo. [PARTNER WITH US] Get instant 1-on-1 access to over 26 of the top agents in the country to help scale your business.

Show Resources Here were the resources we covered in the episode: NEW LinkedIn Learning course about LinkedIn Ads by AJ Wilcox Youtube Channel Contact us at Podcast@B2Linked.com with ideas for what you'd like AJ to cover. A great no-cost way to support us: Rate/Review! Show Transcript AJ Wilcox Have you thoroughly tested the LinkedIn Audience Network yet? Some big changes have been made to it recently. And there's a lot to appreciate. Today on the LinkedIn Ads Show, we're diving into the LinkedIn Audience Network. Welcome to the LinkedIn Ads Show. Here's your host, AJ Wilcox. AJ Wilcox Hey there LinkedIn Ads fanatics. If you're like me, you've seen the option for enabling LinkedIn Audience Network and sponsored content campaigns for years. Maybe it's something that you've occasionally used, or in some cases, maybe you've always excluded it. Well, LinkedIn recently made big changes to the audience network. And I wanted to bring LinkedIn's product team in to come and talk to us about it. Now we as marketers, we seem to always be shortening things to acronyms. I've called the LinkedIn Audience Network LAN for lots of years. And in this episode, we mostly refer to it by its full name, but don't be confused. It's the same option that I've talked about in the past. Now, Peter Turner was one of the product people at LinkedIn for lots of years. And I've gotten to interface with him for a long time, as he's worked on many different projects. And as I wanted to have an episode all about the LinkedIn Audience Network, of course, I knew he was all over it. And I wanted to make sure we brought him on. And he introduced me to Lipika Gimmler, who's also over it. And so we're trying to kind of dual interview approach. So I hope you like hearing from both Peter and Lipika. AJ Wilcox I wanted to give a shout out to Rob Baijens from the Netherlands. And Rob I'm sorry if I butchered your last name. But he left a review on the podcast and he said, "100% the LinkedIn go to podcast five stars love AJs podcast, he gives so much insights, updates, and inspiration when it comes to LinkedIn advertising and more. What I especially like is not only his guru level expertise, although he is a LinkedIn guru, but the AJ also tells the audience when he simply doesn't know yet asking the audience to share their thoughts. This makes his podcast 100% authentic. I want to apologize to AJ for not taking the time until now to give him the five star review he deserves", with a little smiley face. "AJ, please keep up the good work as you bring so much value to the LinkedIn community. All the best Rob Baijens, the Netherlands." Rob, I don't care how long you waited. I'm so grateful that you left this review. I do try really hard to be truthful when there is something I just don't know or don't have enough data on. So I'm glad you picked up on that. I do have an ego. I don't like to admit when I don't know something, but I try really hard for you guys. Thanks so much for heeding the call when I asked for reviews. So thank you. And of course everyone else, please do follow Rob's lead here and go and leave a review as well. As a reminder, make sure you go back and listen to episode 83. It was the holiday ad Performance Report. We've had about 35 man hours go into producing that episode and the report. If you skip that episode, do go back and listen to it. Okay, without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into the interview. AJ Wilcox All right, Lipika and Peter, I'm so excited to have you guys here. Lipika, let's start with you. Tell us about yourself and what you do at LinkedIn. Lipika Gimmler Hey, AJ, my name is Lipika. And I'm a product marketing manager at LinkedIn. And I work on the LinkedIn Audience Network. And I typically sit at the intersection of our product build and our go to market teams, really helping in the formulation of product value propositions as well as partnering with our product teams in continuing to build meaningful solutions for our customers. AJ Wilcox Fantastic. And, Peter, same question to you. Peter Turner Hey AJ, great to be here. I've been at LinkedIn for a little over six years now. I've had a variety of roles focused on different partnership programs. Throughout this time, one of those programs has been the LinkedIn Audience Network. And I've been a part of the growth of LinkedIn Audience Network from its founding. And now my team looks after the partnerships and ecosystem strategy necessary to keep growing the value we create for marketers. AJ Wilcox That's awesome, Peter, as long as I can remember you and I've been talking about the LinkedIn Audience Network. The impetus for this whole interview was I haven't had an episode about the LinkedIn Audience Network. And I've always been telling myself as soon as I can have Peter on that's when we're going to have an episode. So this is the culmination of that. Really excited to have both you and Lipika here. Well, I think we need to start out with just a general definition here. What is the LinkedIn Audience Network? I'd love for you to tell us even more about how it works, what it's used for? How we see it within campaign manager. Lipika Gimmler Yeah, absolutely. So in a nutshell, the way we describe the LinkedIn Audience Network is that it's a placement available within LinkedIn suite of advertising products. So it essentially enables our advertisers to reach their targeted professional audiences at scale across a network of vetted publishers really to maximize their advertising outcomes. So by leveraging the LinkedIn Audience Network, what advertisers can do is number one, they can extend the reach of their sponsored content campaigns, to LinkedIn professionals who happen to be active on trusted third party apps and sites and advertisers are also able to boost campaign performance across full funnel objectives. So by leveraging the LinkedIn Audience Network, they can achieve better return on adspend and improve their marketing outcomes by really activating their campaigns across both the LinkedIn feed and the LinkedIn Audience Network. So it really is a powerful, powerful tool that should be considered by advertisers who want to really expand the scale of their B2B campaigns. AJ Wilcox And I love the audience network for the exact reason. When we're just advertising on LinkedIn, it almost feels like we're bidding on someone and we're waiting for them to come back to LinkedIn. But through the LinkedIn Audience Network, we're able to reach those exact right professionals, with the right targeting pretty much all the way across the web. So I'm a big fan. Lipika Gimmler Yep, absolutely. And that's exactly what the product was designed to do is to really work in partnership with a LinkedIn feed to help our advertisers ultimately reach their intended audiences across the touchpoints that matter whether that's on the platform, or whether that's off the platform. So it really is a fantastic tool to consider experimenting with. AJ Wilcox Perfect. And Peter, tell us about how LinkedIn decided who would be a great publisher to partner with on the audience now? Peter Turner Well, first, we couldn't have an audience network without publishers. And so we're deeply grateful for our publishers and the role they play. Our publisher partners strategy is one that is deeply rooted in our principles provide value to our B2B marketers. And we do this by extending campaign scale and reach while helping ensure that their brand messages appear in safe environments. We look at both quantitative data like the relative level of invalid traffic on a publisher as well as more qualitative reviews of their ad experience and ad load. We prioritize publishers that we know to be spaces where our professional audiences are present and engaged, and we have checks and balances in place to bid on quality inventory. Because brand safety is incredibly important to our advertisers and to us, we work with leading partners like DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, and Pixelate to help protect marketer campaigns. AJ Wilcox And what I love about this is it seems like every ad platform who has an audience network, the general feel is it's going to be a lower quality network. But I've never felt that with LinkedIn, it always feels like there's premium placements. And I would imagine that you're probably to thank for that. Peter Turner Just like with LinkedIn, we take brand safety very seriously and want to make sure that marketers can trust coming off LinkedIn as much as they trust running from their campaigns on LinkedIn. AJ Wilcox Most of us know that the various display networks out there for digital marketers are commonly regarded as being low quality. So how is the LinkedIn Audience Network different from the Google Display Network? And Facebook's Audience Network? Lipika Gimmler Yeah, that's a great question. And to really summarize it succinctly, the LinkedIn Audience Network is truly designed and built differently from other audience networks, as it's ultimately rooted in enabling our advertisers to reach highly coveted professional audiences and engage b2b decision makers across the touchpoints that matter, and do so at scale. So we consider our audience network to actually be a core part of our ad placement offering. So it's considered to be a truly vetted product from both a performance standpoint and from a brand safety standpoint, as Peter alluded to, so advertisers who are looking for ways to further scale their campaign and engage with their target professional audience across the surfaces that matter, find a lot of value in leveraging our audience network, as we've had studies show that marketers can achieve up to nine times more monthly touch points to reaching LinkedIn members who tend to be more active on our audience network. This is definitely something that really does set us apart from other audience networks. And we've also invested a lot in making sure that we reach and target the right audience through integrations to third party supply sources, and bolstering our audience graph. And of course, doing so safely with leading brand safety and suitability solutions through the partners that Peter mentioned as well. DoubleVerify being one of the most recent partnerships that we've forged in the past quarter, Peter Turner AJ, we found that advertisers achieve better return on adspend improve marketing outcomes by by asking their campaigns both on LinkedIn on instant work, and alongside the LinkedIn feed. Advertisers see an estimated cost per 1000 impressions reduced by 47%. And 63%, lower cost per conversions when leveraging the Audience Network. AJ Wilcox And that makes perfect sense to me. This is the right people seeing your message more often. in more places. I like to use this thought idea of like, what makes you cool in high school? Is it one friend who tells 1000 people that you're cool, or is it 1000 different people saying that you're cool. We know what drives popularity, and its multiple sources. I really see that as being one of the the big ways that the LinkedIn Audience Network helps our campaigns. Peter Turner We help LinkedIn marketers be cool. I like that. AJ Wilcox Yeah, exactly. So speaking of cool, what are some of the ways that marketers are using the LinkedIn Audience Network? If you want to share any like cool case studies or what people are doing? That has been really exciting? Lipika Gimmler Yeah, absolutely. So we've actually seen some remarkable case studies of customers leveraging LinkedIn Audience Network for very various use cases such as brand awareness being one that comes top of mind. So an example is a leading technology company that works with LinkedIn primarily because of our zero party and our first party data. So just double clicking into what those terms mean specifically. So zero party data is anything that our members willingly provide us via their LinkedIn profile information. So this is publicly available information that they have on their LinkedIn profile and updated continuously. Whereas first party data is what we can then derive from user behavior on the platform. So an example of this would be engagement data. So this customer in question that leveraged LinkedIn Audience Network for brand awareness, actually leveraged it for a very specific use case, which was Account Based Marketing. So they leveraged our audience network to really reach hard to find strategic members of the buying committee, and were ultimately able to see a 58% decline in CPM or cost per 1000 impressions, and saw 151% increase in their ability to reach CXOs, which was a core audience segment that they were looking to target. Similarly, we've also seen advertisers leverage the LinkedIn Audience Network for consideration campaigns. So here, an example that comes to mind is a client who leveraged the LinkedIn Audience Network to lower cost per clicks by about 65%. And saw an uptick in click through rates by about 90%. And we have another client who saw 2.2 times higher video view through rate, and 2.5 times higher video completion rate and 64%, lower cost per view. So as you can tell from a lot of these examples, the LinkedIn Audience Network is really great for full funnel objectives. So well, brand awareness is sort of an obvious use case for advertisers to use our audience network for we've also seen a lot of our clients use it for consideration and bottom of funnel campaigns as well. Lipika Gimmler We also as a team recently figured out that the LinkedIn Audience Network, if you're using the single image ad placement, you can build your single image ad retargeting audience very quickly. So those are some of the great things I hear you loud and clear for the results that you've seen across these other clients. Peter, what about you? Peter Turner Yeah, you know, it's not just for branding. As Lipika talked about, AJ, we've all seen customers leveraging LinkedIn Audience Network for bottom funnel objectives as well. I didn't get to work with our customers as much. But these examples are so impressive, this one sticks out to me. There was a client who's a leading provider of business cloud communications, who use the audience can work as a way to help their team connect the brand initiatives to business outcomes and saw 65% Lower CPMs while driving 93 times more conversions from CTOs the audience that mattered most to them. And another interesting use case we've seen recently is one in APAC, where an agency client enabled LinkedIn Audience Network for their branding campaign and then built a retargeting campaign afterwards, to retarget audience reach via LinkedIn on instant work enabled campaigns via Legion forms. And they saw a 2x increase in Legion form converts as a result. It's kind of like that example you were talking about AJ building that retargeting audience from a LinkedIn Audience Network campaign. AJ Wilcox We were so excited when we found out that the audience network could build your retargeting audience. I mean, anytime we're going after an audience on LinkedIn, you have to have a minimum of 300 people. It can take a while to build a retargeting audience and 300 people, but it built very quickly on the audience. So I think that's way cool. Here's a quick sponsor break and then we'll dive into the rest of the interview. The LinkedIn Ads Show is proudly brought to you by B2Linked.com, the LinkedIn Ads experts. AJ Wilcox If you're a B2B company and care about getting more sales opportunities with your ideal prospects, then chances are LinkedIn Ads are for you. But the platform isn't easy to use, and can be painfully expensive on the front end. At B2Linked, we've cracked the code to maximizing ROI, while minimizing costs. Our methodology includes building and executing LinkedIn Ads strategies customized to your unique needs and tailored to the way that B2B consumers buy today. Over the last 11 years, we've worked with some of the largest LinkedIn Ad spenders in the world, we've spent over $150 million on the platform, and we're official LinkedIn partners. If you want to generate more sales opportunities with your ideal prospects, book a discovery call today at B2Linked.com/apply. We'd absolutely love the opportunity to get to work with you. Alright, let's go ahead and jump back into the interview. AJ Wilcox So what some of the work that goes behind the scenes and ensuring that LinkedIn's Audience Network is brand safe, and that advertisers have the controls that they need. Peter Turner AJ, this is one of my favorite questions and one that you know, we spend a lot of time at LinkedIn, a lot of work goes on behind the scenes. So at its core, we want to make sure that marketers feel really confident running off LinkedIn just as much as they do on LinkedIn. And we continuously work to uphold LinkedIn brand safety standards, across both the feed and the Audience Network. There's both manual and automated brand safety checks that we perform as a team. And we partner with industry leaders, such as iOS, DoubleVerify and Pixelate to filter out low quality inventory across the network. And we also have an in house team that manually invests and audits publishers regularly, to make sure that we're prioritizing publishers based on performance and audience engagement to maintain the quality of a network. This is core to what we deliver for our marketers, and really important for my team to get right. Lipika Gimmler Yeah, and in addition to all of the fantastic under the hood protections that Peter mentioned that essentially come out of the box with a LinkedIn Audience Network, something that we're really, really excited to announce, the launch of this quarter is a brand new brand safety hub, where an advertiser can actually design their own brand safety guardrails to reach their desired professional audiences across third party apps and sites, while still remaining aligned with their brand safety needs. So with this new brand safety hub that we've launched, what people can essentially do is number one, they can download and review the entire list of publishers that make up the LinkedIn Audience Network. So as to, you know, take a look at them and ensure there's transparency into what makes up our audience network. In addition to this, they can also create an upload, custom allow lists and custom block lists to be very specific in identifying the publishers that they want their brand messages to appear on. And finally, we also have introduced a new feature where advertisers can now import and apply their own DoubleVerify powered authentic brand suitability and custom contextual targeting profiles to the LinkedIn Audience Network campaigns. So this is a brand new partnership that we've forged with an industry leader like DoubleVerify. So it's a pretty fantastic new feature that can be leveraged by advertisers who use DV in their campaigns. So in addition to all of these new features, we also have category blocking, which essentially leverages tech lab content taxonomy categories, at the campaign level. So a ton of customization, a ton of manual controls that our advertisers can apply in setting up their brand safety guardrails is what they can look forward to, in addition to the automated checks that are already in place within the product. AJ Wilcox Lipika, I have to say, I'm a huge fan of the new brand safety hub. Some of the initial exploration that we did, as soon as we found out that we could upload our own targeting and block lists, we thought, well, hey, what if we started showing ads just to apps, maybe for something like a mobile app? Or what if we blocked apps and just showed to publishers, and we wouldn't have had that level of control without the brand safety hub. So props to you guys for releasing that. That was a really cool release. Lipika Gimmler Yeah, absolutely. It was something that was a top asked by a lot of our customers. And we're really, really excited to be able to bring them to life and encourage anybody and everybody who is sort of on the edge of wanting to test out the LinkedIn Audience Network to kind of give it a go and see how it works out for them from a brand safety perspective, specifically, and obviously, feedback is always welcome. AJ Wilcox So Lipika, I know this is kind of your wheelhouse. I'm curious to ask about what the future of the LinkedIn Audience Network looks like. Lipika Gimmler Yeah, absolutely. So the future for the LinkedIn Audience Network is absolutely bright. And our teams are consistently working to introduce new ad formats and ad placements that are exclusive to the LinkedIn Audience Network. As I mentioned, prior LinkedIn Audience Network is considered to be a core part of our advertising solution. So there's a lot of investment from an r&d perspective, and a lot of investment in terms of really soliciting what our customers are looking for, in terms of what's going to bring them value. So we really are looking to further fortify LinkedIn as a whole as the B2B marketing partner of choice for brands and agencies and the LinkedIn Audience Network is a key component to how we're going to get there. So we're really excited to what's in development. But at this point, there's a lot of under the hood work that's being done. But we're happy to share more about it in the coming months, hopefully, on a future episode that we might be able to guest on again with yourself, AJ, AJ Wilcox Perfect. Well, we'd sure love to have you back for any new developments. That'd be fantastic. Always. So excited to see how fast LinkedIn is moving at coming out with new features, and especially around the LinkedIn Audience Network, I've noticed, I'll be inside of campaign manager and just see something new and go, wow, I didn't even know they were working on that, especially like the brand safety hub, those awesome. We had an episode several back about the cookieapocalypse that's happening. I'm curious how the cookieapocalypse is affecting the LinkedIn Audience Network, especially after chrome stops respecting third party cookies. What can we expect? Lipika Gimmler Yeah, that's really great and a very timely question, because it's definitely top of mind for a lot of folks in our industry. And this is one that our team has really been focused on for the past few quarters to address and to find meaningful solutions for. Ultimately, it boils down to the fact that the LinkedIn Audience Network, again, is truly an extension of LinkedIn, with the anchoring feature being LinkedIn's zero and first party data, our targeting data, that is really second to none when it comes to professional audience targeting. So along with these deterministic data assets, we rely on our proprietary privacy enhancing group identity solution, which essentially leverages LinkedIn first party data to group members based on shared professional attributes. So examples of this could be title or seniority. And this essentially enables us to reach professionals at scale through our first party data and not individual trackers. So we've truly think that B2B can be better served by using group level, and other privacy enhancing solutions that are rooted in this proprietary first party professional data. And with our audience network, advertisers can harness the power of LinkedIn's targeting to really accelerate their marketing outcomes across a network of vetted publishers where their audience is engaging the most. And they're able to do so while enhancing member privacy in an evolving identity landscape. So the investments we're making across LinkedIn within this particular space is definitely being bolstered within the LinkedIn Audience Network as well. AJ Wilcox Perfect. So it doesn't sound like we should be afraid of cookieapocalypse happening, it's not going to shut the LinkedIn Audience Network down. Lipika Gimmler Not at all it is in fact being thought of at the forefront of all of this innovation. So you know, we'd recommend we encourage our advertisers to leverage the Audience Network to really reach their audiences at scale, because it's not something we're necessarily afraid of at this point, but we're actually thriving in the current environment. AJ Wilcox Beautiful to hear. So as we are turning on LinkedIn Audience Network campaigns, and we've been testing them quite a bit, we've noticed that when you turn something on, it's going to react in the auction slightly differently. So I love to ask, like, how does the LinkedIn Audience Network interact within the auction for LinkedIn traffic? How might you scope the right balance of ensuring that you have as much traffic going towards on network as LinkedIn Audience Network? Peter Turner So at LinkedIn, we work to maximize marketing outcomes for all of our customers across all the available placements we have. It's really based on what they're trying to achieve a scale. So our platform algorithms work to show brand messages across both feed and LinkedIn Audience Network that match an average professional target audience first, and then based on the campaigns objective second, and, and at the same time, while considering their budget in bid type. And again, the priority is to drive you know maximum key results, as per their objectives at the lowest cost. And this ultimately decides how impressions are split across the LinkedIn Audience Network and our feed, as our ad platform behaves in a placement agnostic matter, and considers all available placements at par with each other. This also helps ensure that advertising on LinkedIn is seamless and data driven, while being anchored in our robust and proprietary professional audience graph for member interactions with LinkedIn. One suggestion for advertisers, as I'm thinking about the problem presented, you know, prefer testing and monitoring a campaign or forums across, you know, the LinkedIn Audience Network and their feed distinctly would be to run parallel AB campaigns, one with LinkedIn audience network enabled and one without while mimicking the exact same campaign parameters. This way we can assume that 90% of LinkedIn Audience Network enabled campaigns will deliver on LinkedIn Audience Network, while the other would be pure feed campaigns, and better the chance of reaching professionals across both the feed and LinkedIn Audience Network semi-equally. AJ Wilcox And that's exactly what I'd recommend to because you can't run just a LinkedIn Audience Network campaign. So duplicating both campaigns having one set to do the LinkedIn Audience Network, the other set to be LinkedIn only. That's a great way of AB testing the campaigns, so I'm a fan of that approach. All right, so final question for both of you. What are you both professionally and personally most excited for right now or this year. Lipika Gimmler Yeah, I'm personally really excited to see more B2B marketers leveraging the LinkedIn Audience Network and finding interesting use cases for it in their marketing campaigns. A ton of times we connect, when we connect with our advertisers, we find use cases that we hadn't even thought about in the first place. So it's really, really engaging for us to connect with our clients and learn about how they're utilizing the audience network within their toolkit. And there are so many learnings that are to be had by experimenting with the LinkedIn Audience Network and unlocking test budgets for it. So I'd really encourage all of the marketers who are tuning into this episode to connect with your LinkedIn account team, and explore ways by which you can expand the possibilities of what can be accomplished by tapping into, you know, LinkedIn and the LinkedIn Audience Network to achieve your B2B marketing dreams and ambitions. AJ Wilcox Love that. And, Peter, same question to you. Peter Turner This is a fun one for me. So I've got two young boys at home, one and three. And so I'm getting a ton of energy and excitement, watching them learn and grow. And as much as I think about my work at LinkedIn, and specifically on the Audience Network, I spent a lot of time reading about parenting, and how to raise kind kids, and connect it back. That multi dimensional sense of who we all are, is really the key to LinkedIn Audience Network, I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, but I also spend time elsewhere. And the value that the audience member creates is for marketers to reach me in multiple ways. And I'm very excited about that. AJ Wilcox I'm excited to hear congratulations on being an amazing parent who cares, and is trying to raise kind of children. That's awesome. This kind of concludes the questions I had, do either of you have anything else that you want to add? Lipika Gimmler At this point? Not really, I think this was a fantastic opportunity to really connect with your audience and to chat with you, AJ about, you know, what the foundational concepts are that the LinkedIn Audience Network was founded upon, and just all of the excitement that we have for what's to come. So we're really grateful for the opportunity and the time here, and we hope to come back and share more about, you know, the product roadmap, and maybe talk with customers and learn more about some of the use cases that are using the audience network for so again, appreciate the chance to chat today. Peter Turner And AJ, from mindset, you know, like the open to it, we've known each other for six or so years now working across, you know, various solutions at LinkedIn. And it's great to be on the podcast, and thank you for all you do to champion you know, and and support that LinkedIn marketer. It's not unusual for me to have a question about how to run a LinkedIn ad campaign and think to ask you first, and so I really think of you as an expert on what you do. And so thank you for the time today. AJ Wilcox Well, thank you, Peter. Thank you Lipika! Grateful that you would come and share so deeply with us and answer all my terrible questions. So much appreciate it! And have a great rest of your day. Lipika Gimmler Thank you. Thank you. AJ Wilcox I've got the episode resources for you coming right up. So stick around. Thank you for listening to the LinkedIn Ads show. Hungry for more? AJ Wilcox, take it away. AJ Wilcox Alright! I hope you enjoyed the interview. I wanted to walk you through some great resources we've got for you. If you're looking to learn more about LinkedIn Ads, look no further than the course that I did on LinkedIn Learning all about LinkedIn Ads. You'll find the link in the show notes below. It is by far the most detailed, the least expensive, and the highest production value course out there, so check it out. If this is the first episode you've heard, congratulations, we're excited that you found us. Make sure to hit that subscribe button on whatever podcast player you're listening to. We'd love to have you back next week. But if this is not your first time listening, I would ask you please do leave us a review. Most of these reviews are done in the Apple podcasts section, but if you have anywhere else that will let you leave a review, please do. It truly means a lot to me. With any questions, suggestions, or corrections, reach out to us at Podcast@B2Linked.com. And with that being said, we'll see you back here next week. We're cheering you on in your LinkedIn Ads initiatives.

This week: Why sports podcasts are a slam dunk for podcast advertisers, our quarterly earnings roundup, how the buy-side of advertising defines ‘premium' content, how podcast advertisers are embracing Latino podcasting, and Netflix launches their ad-supported tier. Why sports podcasts could be a slam dunk for advertisers who know how to navigate the in-demand space Shreya: There's no denying the synergy of sports and advertisers during regular game seasons, but a new article from MarketingBrew's Alyssa Meyers highlights how podcasts can easily fill that gap the rest of the year.  “The sports podcast genre is among the top five most popular in the US, according to Edison Research, and the percentage share of ad revenue for that category more than doubled from 2020 to 2021, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.”  Several of Meyers' sources stress that sports is one of the most in-demand podcast genres for ad buyers. Steven Abraham, president of the Oxford Road, said the agency's biggest clients are interested in the space due to its reach with an active and engaged audience. “A good sports-podcast media plan includes both, according to Abraham. Major shows that cover entire leagues or sports news in general can provide the benefit of reach, but fan-led shows that focus on specific teams tend to be more targeted and affordable, he said.” Regardless of a show's popularity, the CPM of a sports podcast has the benefit of flexibility even in the off season. Locked On Podcast Network CEO David Locke reports listenership spikes more during off-season times like trade deadlines than during important games during the normal season.  Traditional media has spent decades refining their infrastructure around courting sports fans when players are on the court. Podcasting has the flexibility and staying power to capitalize on sports fandom's dedication for their favorite pastime and make sporting content a perennial avenue for advertisers.  Podcasting Companies Post Q3 Earnings Manuela: It's time for what's becoming a quarterly event here on The Download: quarterly earnings reports are here!  Most of what we're reporting on today has been released in the past week, but in the interest of gathering everyone together, we'll open with Spotify. As we covered back in October, Spotify shares dipped after their earnings call, in which CEO David Ek announced price increases coming in 2023.  In good news for Big Green: they report 456 million monthly active users, up 20% year over year, 195 million of which are paying subscribers, representing a 13% year over year jump.  iHeartMedia is up 7% year over year on revenue, with a Q3 total of $989 million. Their Digital Audio Group revenue hit a 23% year over year increase, with podcast revenue hitting $91 million dollars.  On Wednesday Veritone posted their Q3 financial report. $37.2 million in revenue with 64% year over year growth.  Audacy's financial report shows total revenue down 3.8% year on year. Their Digital revenue, including podcasting, made $62 million in the quarter. As Podnews James Cridland reports, this is up 2% year on year but 10% down quarter on quarter. Cridland also said: “The company is threatened with stock market delisting; stock hit a record low of $0.27 yesterday.”  Acast's Q3 has been positive with revenue up 21%, amounting to $29.8 million USD when converted from Krona. In their significant events recap they list the Podchaser acquisition, the partnership with Wondery to translate and record successful podcasts in Italian, and their agreement with rep The New York Times and sell UK ad space on NYT podcasts.  They also note Amazon functionally purchasing all ad space on Acast podcasts through the deal struck just after the reporting period so Amazon can run Acast shows ad-free for Amazon Music subscribers. How the buy-side of the ad industry is now defining ‘premium' content  Shreya: On Wednesday Ronan Shields, writing for Digiday, published a piece covering how the buyer side of the market is defining premium ad content and the general mood of the industry in regards to the looming threat of recession. The piece quotes panels from multiple relevant conferences in New York City last week.  “Just about everyone in the industry is bracing themselves for a recession with swinging cuts to advertisers' budgets expected, fellow panelists Jesse Fisher from Horizon Media and GroupM's Esra Bacher offered insights into how marketers would make budgeting decisions. They both pointed out how priorities will delineate depending on whether they are an emerging or mature brand.”  Fischer predicts smaller brands will focus more on awareness campaigns instead of focusing on ROI. “But if you look at a more mature brand, you know that's really well positioned… they might shift spend into more measurable channels and types of activations because they really want to make sure that if they're spending a million dollars, they're able to see $1.1 million in ROI.” Programmatic Investment Lead at GroupM Esra Bacher suggests marketers and media agencies have evolved enough to withstand the brunt of an anticipated economic downturn better than the 2008 recession that lead to sweeping cuts. While DSPs and premium publishers are using tools like The Trade Desk's OpenPath to form direct relationships, media agencies are similarly getting together with supply-side platforms. An anonymous source at Brand Safety Week told Digiday:  “It's not possible for us to talk to 10,000 publishers, but it is possible for us to talk to 50 SSPs. So, we might look to see how much we're spending with, say, 10-15 publishers via DSPs, and then look to see which SSPs have unique supply, unique data… and transparency on things like show-level data…” Podcast listening by US Latinos is on the rise. Are ad dollars following suit? Manuela: Back in August the third annual Latino Podcast Listener Report from Edison Research was published, as dedicated listeners might remember from our coverage. The report delivered promising news, including the statistic that 59% of US Latino adults have listened to a podcast at least once.  This past Wednesday Alyssa Meyers, writing for MarketingBrew, covered both the highlights of the report and how the podcasting industry is adjusting to the rise in Latino audiences.  Latina Podcasters Network and Latino Pods CEO Rita Bautista says their stable of 40+ podcasts  broke six figures in ad revenue so far in 2022, working with brands like Ulta Beauty, Pfizer, and Gold Peak. The network does not run prerecorded ads, preferring host-read copy to ensure authenticity.  “There's absolutely a lot of interest in the Hispanic opportunity by many advertisers,” said Jesus Lara, president of Univision Radio, including its Uforia Audio Network. “There's other advertisers that will need a little more education.” Lara stressed that authenticity has to be paramount when building ad creative. Ad Results Media VP of media operations and analytics Lisa Jacobs says she advises brands to only write copy in another language if they have someone fluent around to work on the translation. Jacobs told MarketingBrew this might seem self-explanatory, but there have been situations in the past where someone used Google Translate to try and convert copy to another language.  Bautista says she's seeing brands follow the advice of people like Jacobs, though there is room to grow.  “The needle is moving. It's not moving as quickly as it needs to be, but…I do commend these companies that we've been working with for trying their best, and making sure that they are working on these efforts, and asking for feedback, and looking towards the right types of networks to advertise with in order to get this right.” Brands advertising on Netflix include Louis Vuitton, Subway, and Duracell Shreya: Previously we've covered Netflix's moves into making its cheapest tier an ad-supported one. Last week the platform officially launched the tier, charging $6.99 for ‘Basic with Ads' in the US, as well as eight other countries. MarketingBrew's Kelsey Sutton reports the ad loads are capped at four to five minutes of advertising per hour and the formats are pre-roll and mid-roll.  Sutton and others from MarketingBrew used accounts on the new tier to catch the new advertisement breaks in action.  “Brands we spotted while watching Gilmore Girls and Ozark included everything from luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., and Bulgari to tech brands like Beats by Dre and Google. Apartments.com, Best Western, Booking.com, Cadillac, CeraVe, Duracell, Michelob Ultra, and Subway were also spotted in the mix.  Sutton reports the exercise found an average of three ad breaks per episode amounting to around 60 seconds total of midroll plus the preroll that ran before the episode began.  “It remains to be seen how many of Netflix's ~223 million global subscribers will opt to watch with ads. In a poll last month, most Marketing Brew readers said they'd keep their existing ad-free subscriptions, but 14% each said they'd either sign up for Netflix on its ad-supported tier for the first time or switch their existing ad-free subscription to the ad-supported tier.” The new service isn't quite plug-and-play just yet, as Netflix has to renegotiate licensing agreements with studios before it can run advertisements on their properties. They also appear to still be working on implementing the measurement tools produced by their partnership with DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, and Nielsen. While Sutton mentions some advertisers are waiting in the wings to gauge the public's reaction to the new tier, it's clear plenty of big-name advertisers are interested in buying ad space on premium content. Netflix's CPM for their new ad slots has been reported between $60 and $80. It's exciting to see both the interest and the price holding in a buyer's market.  Now to see if Netflix can deliver long-term. For now we can only watch, both literally and figuratively.  Quick Hits Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week: The holiday campaigns have begun- here's what we're seeing so far by Katie Hicks for MarketingBrew. A breezy breakdown of what tact major brands are taking with their holiday season campaigns this year, with trends developing around addressing inflation and families celebrating together.  These Are the Salaries Warner, Amazon and Sony Offer For Audio Jobs by Ashley Carman for Bloomberg. Last week's issue of Carman's newsletter Soundbite features a look at salaries for a variety of companies working in audio now that New York City has passed a new law requiring good faith salary ranges on open positions. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Why sports podcasts are a slam dunk for podcast advertisers, our quarterly earnings roundup, how the buy-side of advertising defines ‘premium' content, how podcast advertisers are embracing Latino podcasting, and Netflix launches their ad-supported tier. Why sports podcasts could be a slam dunk for advertisers who know how to navigate the in-demand space Shreya: There's no denying the synergy of sports and advertisers during regular game seasons, but a new article from MarketingBrew's Alyssa Meyers highlights how podcasts can easily fill that gap the rest of the year.  “The sports podcast genre is among the top five most popular in the US, according to Edison Research, and the percentage share of ad revenue for that category more than doubled from 2020 to 2021, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.”  Several of Meyers' sources stress that sports is one of the most in-demand podcast genres for ad buyers. Steven Abraham, president of the Oxford Road, said the agency's biggest clients are interested in the space due to its reach with an active and engaged audience. “A good sports-podcast media plan includes both, according to Abraham. Major shows that cover entire leagues or sports news in general can provide the benefit of reach, but fan-led shows that focus on specific teams tend to be more targeted and affordable, he said.” Regardless of a show's popularity, the CPM of a sports podcast has the benefit of flexibility even in the off season. Locked On Podcast Network CEO David Locke reports listenership spikes more during off-season times like trade deadlines than during important games during the normal season.  Traditional media has spent decades refining their infrastructure around courting sports fans when players are on the court. Podcasting has the flexibility and staying power to capitalize on sports fandom's dedication for their favorite pastime and make sporting content a perennial avenue for advertisers.  Podcasting Companies Post Q3 Earnings Manuela: It's time for what's becoming a quarterly event here on The Download: quarterly earnings reports are here!  Most of what we're reporting on today has been released in the past week, but in the interest of gathering everyone together, we'll open with Spotify. As we covered back in October, Spotify shares dipped after their earnings call, in which CEO David Ek announced price increases coming in 2023.  In good news for Big Green: they report 456 million monthly active users, up 20% year over year, 195 million of which are paying subscribers, representing a 13% year over year jump.  iHeartMedia is up 7% year over year on revenue, with a Q3 total of $989 million. Their Digital Audio Group revenue hit a 23% year over year increase, with podcast revenue hitting $91 million dollars.  On Wednesday Veritone posted their Q3 financial report. $37.2 million in revenue with 64% year over year growth.  Audacy's financial report shows total revenue down 3.8% year on year. Their Digital revenue, including podcasting, made $62 million in the quarter. As Podnews James Cridland reports, this is up 2% year on year but 10% down quarter on quarter. Cridland also said: “The company is threatened with stock market delisting; stock hit a record low of $0.27 yesterday.”  Acast's Q3 has been positive with revenue up 21%, amounting to $29.8 million USD when converted from Krona. In their significant events recap they list the Podchaser acquisition, the partnership with Wondery to translate and record successful podcasts in Italian, and their agreement with rep The New York Times and sell UK ad space on NYT podcasts.  They also note Amazon functionally purchasing all ad space on Acast podcasts through the deal struck just after the reporting period so Amazon can run Acast shows ad-free for Amazon Music subscribers. How the buy-side of the ad industry is now defining ‘premium' content  Shreya: On Wednesday Ronan Shields, writing for Digiday, published a piece covering how the buyer side of the market is defining premium ad content and the general mood of the industry in regards to the looming threat of recession. The piece quotes panels from multiple relevant conferences in New York City last week.  “Just about everyone in the industry is bracing themselves for a recession with swinging cuts to advertisers' budgets expected, fellow panelists Jesse Fisher from Horizon Media and GroupM's Esra Bacher offered insights into how marketers would make budgeting decisions. They both pointed out how priorities will delineate depending on whether they are an emerging or mature brand.”  Fischer predicts smaller brands will focus more on awareness campaigns instead of focusing on ROI. “But if you look at a more mature brand, you know that's really well positioned… they might shift spend into more measurable channels and types of activations because they really want to make sure that if they're spending a million dollars, they're able to see $1.1 million in ROI.” Programmatic Investment Lead at GroupM Esra Bacher suggests marketers and media agencies have evolved enough to withstand the brunt of an anticipated economic downturn better than the 2008 recession that lead to sweeping cuts. While DSPs and premium publishers are using tools like The Trade Desk's OpenPath to form direct relationships, media agencies are similarly getting together with supply-side platforms. An anonymous source at Brand Safety Week told Digiday:  “It's not possible for us to talk to 10,000 publishers, but it is possible for us to talk to 50 SSPs. So, we might look to see how much we're spending with, say, 10-15 publishers via DSPs, and then look to see which SSPs have unique supply, unique data… and transparency on things like show-level data…” Podcast listening by US Latinos is on the rise. Are ad dollars following suit? Manuela: Back in August the third annual Latino Podcast Listener Report from Edison Research was published, as dedicated listeners might remember from our coverage. The report delivered promising news, including the statistic that 59% of US Latino adults have listened to a podcast at least once.  This past Wednesday Alyssa Meyers, writing for MarketingBrew, covered both the highlights of the report and how the podcasting industry is adjusting to the rise in Latino audiences.  Latina Podcasters Network and Latino Pods CEO Rita Bautista says their stable of 40+ podcasts  broke six figures in ad revenue so far in 2022, working with brands like Ulta Beauty, Pfizer, and Gold Peak. The network does not run prerecorded ads, preferring host-read copy to ensure authenticity.  “There's absolutely a lot of interest in the Hispanic opportunity by many advertisers,” said Jesus Lara, president of Univision Radio, including its Uforia Audio Network. “There's other advertisers that will need a little more education.” Lara stressed that authenticity has to be paramount when building ad creative. Ad Results Media VP of media operations and analytics Lisa Jacobs says she advises brands to only write copy in another language if they have someone fluent around to work on the translation. Jacobs told MarketingBrew this might seem self-explanatory, but there have been situations in the past where someone used Google Translate to try and convert copy to another language.  Bautista says she's seeing brands follow the advice of people like Jacobs, though there is room to grow.  “The needle is moving. It's not moving as quickly as it needs to be, but…I do commend these companies that we've been working with for trying their best, and making sure that they are working on these efforts, and asking for feedback, and looking towards the right types of networks to advertise with in order to get this right.” Brands advertising on Netflix include Louis Vuitton, Subway, and Duracell Shreya: Previously we've covered Netflix's moves into making its cheapest tier an ad-supported one. Last week the platform officially launched the tier, charging $6.99 for ‘Basic with Ads' in the US, as well as eight other countries. MarketingBrew's Kelsey Sutton reports the ad loads are capped at four to five minutes of advertising per hour and the formats are pre-roll and mid-roll.  Sutton and others from MarketingBrew used accounts on the new tier to catch the new advertisement breaks in action.  “Brands we spotted while watching Gilmore Girls and Ozark included everything from luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., and Bulgari to tech brands like Beats by Dre and Google. Apartments.com, Best Western, Booking.com, Cadillac, CeraVe, Duracell, Michelob Ultra, and Subway were also spotted in the mix.  Sutton reports the exercise found an average of three ad breaks per episode amounting to around 60 seconds total of midroll plus the preroll that ran before the episode began.  “It remains to be seen how many of Netflix's ~223 million global subscribers will opt to watch with ads. In a poll last month, most Marketing Brew readers said they'd keep their existing ad-free subscriptions, but 14% each said they'd either sign up for Netflix on its ad-supported tier for the first time or switch their existing ad-free subscription to the ad-supported tier.” The new service isn't quite plug-and-play just yet, as Netflix has to renegotiate licensing agreements with studios before it can run advertisements on their properties. They also appear to still be working on implementing the measurement tools produced by their partnership with DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, and Nielsen. While Sutton mentions some advertisers are waiting in the wings to gauge the public's reaction to the new tier, it's clear plenty of big-name advertisers are interested in buying ad space on premium content. Netflix's CPM for their new ad slots has been reported between $60 and $80. It's exciting to see both the interest and the price holding in a buyer's market.  Now to see if Netflix can deliver long-term. For now we can only watch, both literally and figuratively.  Quick Hits Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week: The holiday campaigns have begun- here's what we're seeing so far by Katie Hicks for MarketingBrew. A breezy breakdown of what tact major brands are taking with their holiday season campaigns this year, with trends developing around addressing inflation and families celebrating together.  These Are the Salaries Warner, Amazon and Sony Offer For Audio Jobs by Ashley Carman for Bloomberg. Last week's issue of Carman's newsletter Soundbite features a look at salaries for a variety of companies working in audio now that New York City has passed a new law requiring good faith salary ranges on open positions. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we breakdown Netflix's soon to be released AVOD offering and the fact that the video quality is limited to 720p with no ability for downloads. Are consumers willing to sacrifice video quality for price? Will the streaming industry need to re-think how they define video "quality" if consumers are willing to accept 720p as "good enough"? We also discuss Netflix's measurement deals announced with Nielsen, BRB, IAS and DoubleVerify and what this means for advertisers. We also cover what some of the largest live streaming events on the Internet have generated from a viewership standpoint.Companies, and services mentioned: Netflix, Peacock TV, Nielsen, DoubleVerify, Beamr, Roku, Apple TV, Disney+, BBC, Integral Ad Science, NBC Sports, Amazon Prime Video, Riot Games, Akamai, IPL.Questions or feedback? Contact: dan@danrayburn.com

On this episode of The Internship Show, we speak with Arvida Jimenez from Integral Ad Science. Arvida provides us with an overview of their early-career opportunities and describes what she loves most about working at their company.

This week: ESPN to potentially partner with DraftKings, Podcasting unions make headlines, Netflix confirms two independent measurement companies, advertisers reflect on 2023 spend, and two new podcasting hosts arrive in the US. ESPN Nears Large New Partnership With DraftKingsManuela: Last Thursday Ed Hammond and Crystal Tse of Bloomberg covered an anticipated deal between ESPN and sports-betting firm DraftKings. According to an update to the piece, DraftKings' stock rose as much as 8.8% in response to the news on Friday. “ESPN has already invested heavily in sports gambling, though it has steered clear of taking actual bets. The broadcaster has betting-related shows such as Daily Wager and marketing deals with DraftKings and Caesars Entertainment Inc. where links to the sportsbooks are integrated into ESPN's website. Disney also acquired a stake in DraftKings as part of its acquisition of Fox's entertainment assets in 2019.”Disney has long avoided gambling in pursuit of upholding its wholesome family image. As Bloomberg points out, none of the Disney cruise ship fleet have casinos aboard, nor are Disney characters licensed to slot machine manufacturers. Clearly, their attitudes appear to be changing as they search for a sports betting partner for ESPN.Sean Russo, Research Manager of Magellan AI, offered this when asked about the growth of sports betting and adjacent categories: “As of August, the Fantasy Sports industry is up 22% year to date, although historically spending in the industry has peaked in September. Last year spend more than doubled between August and September, primarily driven by brands like Fanduel and DraftKings”  ESPN is a major podcast network and sports betting, as well as its cousins like fantasy sports, continue to climb in popularity. If this deal comes to fruition, it could be a big deal indeed. Podcasting gains new union, hears from two recently affected by Spotify layoffs. Shreya: In this first segment we have two stories fitting in a theme of organized labor in podcasting. Last Tuesday, Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios announced last Tuesday that roughly 75% of their proposed bargaining unit signed up to officially join WGA East. Ashley Carman reported for Bloomberg: “The employees said they're looking for increased transparency around pay, rights to their intellectual property, protection against favoritism at work and improved health insurance, according to the letter.”Later in the week, the utility of unionizing was highlighted when Spotify pruned their walled garden. Last Thursday Tech Crunch's Lauren Forristal reported on Spotify canceling multiple shows at once from two of the four Spotify in-house content production companies. Three podcasts from Gimlet and eight from Parcast are either canceled effective immediately or set - in the case of Horoscope Today - scheduled to end in the second quarter of 2023. Spotify also announced this would cause “less than 5% of layoffs of Spotify's podcast staff.”  Last Friday both the Gimlet Union and Parcast Union took issue with that number in an official letter posted to Twitter.  “Yesterday, Spotify blindsided both Gimlet Union and Parcast Union with at least 38 layoffs across their studios. Spotify has said in the press that these layoffs constitute less than 5% of people working on original podcasts. That number is misleading. The reality is that each bargaining unit organized with the Writers Guild of America, East has lost about 30% of its members. These are not small cuts, they are massive restructurings.”  The two unions go on to highlight Spotify's internal reasoning for canceling the podcasts was due to low listenership, which the unions argue was in large part due to decisions made by Spotify itself.  “Their decision to make most of Gimlet's and Parcast's shows Spotify Exclusive caused a steep drop in listeners - as high as three quarters of the audience for some shows. Yet the company did little or nothing to staunch the bleeding. Shows languished without marketing support, and teams were not given clear audience goals to meet.”  Netflix strikes measurement deals ahead of new ad-supported tier Manuela: On Monday Garett Sloane, writing for AdAge, reported on some updates to the ongoing story of Netflix prepping for the launch of their ad-supported tier. As covered in the September 8th episode of The Download, details were scarce about the tier beyond its possible price point and the streamer's CPM goals. “... Netflix has been asking for high prices for its ad inventory, at least $60 CPMs—cost per thousand views—while only offering limited targeting possibilities and no third-party measurement, according to people familiar with the situation.” Now Netflix has announced they're working with both Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify to act as that third-party measurement. A measurement executive speaking to Sloane anonymously believes implementation of the two services should be relatively easy for Netflix. Netflix signing two big-name third-party companies to give credence to their measurement stands as another example of why a certain podcasting platform's decisions come off as odd. Spotify, when in a similar position of needing brand safety and ad measurement as Netflix, chose to not only work with one third-party company, they strongly inferred the partnership intended to create a proprietary brand safety tool. Surveyed advertisers discuss where they'll potentially spend differently in an uncertain 2023.  Shreya: Much talk has been had about the uncertainties of how things will look in the future as the economy has a will-they-won't-they relationship with a recession. This Wednesday MarketingBrew's Ryan Barwick brought some numbers to the table that demonstrate just how uncertain the industry is. The following numbers are the result of a survey of 43 advertisers run by the World Federation of Advertisers and their media research company Ebiquity. 41% expect to keep their 2022 budgets, though as Barwick says in the article: “29% said they expect a decrease in their budget. The remaining 29% said they expect to see an increase.”While 43 might seem like a small sample size for a survey, it's worth noting those companies account for $44 billion in ad spend. 28% said they'd increase performance advertising, while 21% aim to increase their share of brand advertising. 40% of respondents would up their share of flexible or biddable buys. ““With uncertain times ahead, it's clear that brand advertisers seek more tactical agility in terms of trading and shifting budgets throughout the year, versus annual upfront commitments,” Ruben Schreurs, chief product officer at Ebiquity, wrote to Marketing Brew.”  New Podcast Hosts Cross the Atlantic Manuela: Two new podcast hosting services have hit the US markets this week. First: podcast recording and editing application Alitu has announced Alitu Hosting, making the service all-in-one. According to Jacob Anderson, head of Growth at Alitu: “We started building Alitu four years ago with one mission in mind: to offer the clearest path to sharing your voice and making an impact on the world, making no compromise over control and creativity. Whether that's making one person laugh, or lifting an entire community, we want to offer the help you need to achieve your purpose.” This Tuesday French hosting service Ausha announced the rolling out of their service in the US on their official blog. Quick Hits: Recommended Weekend Reading Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week: Platforms used for listening to podcasts in Poland in 2022 by Statista. We make a point of discussing podcasting performance around the globe. With that in mind, here's a snapshot of data showcasing what podcast consumption looks like in Poland. Acast Talks Layoffs, It's U.S. Moves, The Ad Market, And Why It's Selling ‘The Heart.' by InsideRadio. Coverage of Acast's recent earnings call, including higher-ups talking through their strategies, layoffs, and revealing Acast only sold 28% of their ad inventory in 2021. In the interest of clarity, it's worth keeping in mind InsideRadio is owned by competitor iHeartMedia.  The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: ESPN to potentially partner with DraftKings, Podcasting unions make headlines, Netflix confirms two independent measurement companies, advertisers reflect on 2023 spend, and two new podcasting hosts arrive in the US. ESPN Nears Large New Partnership With DraftKingsManuela: Last Thursday Ed Hammond and Crystal Tse of Bloomberg covered an anticipated deal between ESPN and sports-betting firm DraftKings. According to an update to the piece, DraftKings' stock rose as much as 8.8% in response to the news on Friday. “ESPN has already invested heavily in sports gambling, though it has steered clear of taking actual bets. The broadcaster has betting-related shows such as Daily Wager and marketing deals with DraftKings and Caesars Entertainment Inc. where links to the sportsbooks are integrated into ESPN's website. Disney also acquired a stake in DraftKings as part of its acquisition of Fox's entertainment assets in 2019.”Disney has long avoided gambling in pursuit of upholding its wholesome family image. As Bloomberg points out, none of the Disney cruise ship fleet have casinos aboard, nor are Disney characters licensed to slot machine manufacturers. Clearly, their attitudes appear to be changing as they search for a sports betting partner for ESPN.Sean Russo, Research Manager of Magellan AI, offered this when asked about the growth of sports betting and adjacent categories: “As of August, the Fantasy Sports industry is up 22% year to date, although historically spending in the industry has peaked in September. Last year spend more than doubled between August and September, primarily driven by brands like Fanduel and DraftKings”  ESPN is a major podcast network and sports betting, as well as its cousins like fantasy sports, continue to climb in popularity. If this deal comes to fruition, it could be a big deal indeed. Podcasting gains new union, hears from two recently affected by Spotify layoffs. Shreya: In this first segment we have two stories fitting in a theme of organized labor in podcasting. Last Tuesday, Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios announced last Tuesday that roughly 75% of their proposed bargaining unit signed up to officially join WGA East. Ashley Carman reported for Bloomberg: “The employees said they're looking for increased transparency around pay, rights to their intellectual property, protection against favoritism at work and improved health insurance, according to the letter.”Later in the week, the utility of unionizing was highlighted when Spotify pruned their walled garden. Last Thursday Tech Crunch's Lauren Forristal reported on Spotify canceling multiple shows at once from two of the four Spotify in-house content production companies. Three podcasts from Gimlet and eight from Parcast are either canceled effective immediately or set - in the case of Horoscope Today - scheduled to end in the second quarter of 2023. Spotify also announced this would cause “less than 5% of layoffs of Spotify's podcast staff.”  Last Friday both the Gimlet Union and Parcast Union took issue with that number in an official letter posted to Twitter.  “Yesterday, Spotify blindsided both Gimlet Union and Parcast Union with at least 38 layoffs across their studios. Spotify has said in the press that these layoffs constitute less than 5% of people working on original podcasts. That number is misleading. The reality is that each bargaining unit organized with the Writers Guild of America, East has lost about 30% of its members. These are not small cuts, they are massive restructurings.”  The two unions go on to highlight Spotify's internal reasoning for canceling the podcasts was due to low listenership, which the unions argue was in large part due to decisions made by Spotify itself.  “Their decision to make most of Gimlet's and Parcast's shows Spotify Exclusive caused a steep drop in listeners - as high as three quarters of the audience for some shows. Yet the company did little or nothing to staunch the bleeding. Shows languished without marketing support, and teams were not given clear audience goals to meet.”  Netflix strikes measurement deals ahead of new ad-supported tier Manuela: On Monday Garett Sloane, writing for AdAge, reported on some updates to the ongoing story of Netflix prepping for the launch of their ad-supported tier. As covered in the September 8th episode of The Download, details were scarce about the tier beyond its possible price point and the streamer's CPM goals. “... Netflix has been asking for high prices for its ad inventory, at least $60 CPMs—cost per thousand views—while only offering limited targeting possibilities and no third-party measurement, according to people familiar with the situation.” Now Netflix has announced they're working with both Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify to act as that third-party measurement. A measurement executive speaking to Sloane anonymously believes implementation of the two services should be relatively easy for Netflix. Netflix signing two big-name third-party companies to give credence to their measurement stands as another example of why a certain podcasting platform's decisions come off as odd. Spotify, when in a similar position of needing brand safety and ad measurement as Netflix, chose to not only work with one third-party company, they strongly inferred the partnership intended to create a proprietary brand safety tool. Surveyed advertisers discuss where they'll potentially spend differently in an uncertain 2023.  Shreya: Much talk has been had about the uncertainties of how things will look in the future as the economy has a will-they-won't-they relationship with a recession. This Wednesday MarketingBrew's Ryan Barwick brought some numbers to the table that demonstrate just how uncertain the industry is. The following numbers are the result of a survey of 43 advertisers run by the World Federation of Advertisers and their media research company Ebiquity. 41% expect to keep their 2022 budgets, though as Barwick says in the article: “29% said they expect a decrease in their budget. The remaining 29% said they expect to see an increase.”While 43 might seem like a small sample size for a survey, it's worth noting those companies account for $44 billion in ad spend. 28% said they'd increase performance advertising, while 21% aim to increase their share of brand advertising. 40% of respondents would up their share of flexible or biddable buys. ““With uncertain times ahead, it's clear that brand advertisers seek more tactical agility in terms of trading and shifting budgets throughout the year, versus annual upfront commitments,” Ruben Schreurs, chief product officer at Ebiquity, wrote to Marketing Brew.”  New Podcast Hosts Cross the Atlantic Manuela: Two new podcast hosting services have hit the US markets this week. First: podcast recording and editing application Alitu has announced Alitu Hosting, making the service all-in-one. According to Jacob Anderson, head of Growth at Alitu: “We started building Alitu four years ago with one mission in mind: to offer the clearest path to sharing your voice and making an impact on the world, making no compromise over control and creativity. Whether that's making one person laugh, or lifting an entire community, we want to offer the help you need to achieve your purpose.” This Tuesday French hosting service Ausha announced the rolling out of their service in the US on their official blog. Quick Hits: Recommended Weekend Reading Shreya: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week: Platforms used for listening to podcasts in Poland in 2022 by Statista. We make a point of discussing podcasting performance around the globe. With that in mind, here's a snapshot of data showcasing what podcast consumption looks like in Poland. Acast Talks Layoffs, It's U.S. Moves, The Ad Market, And Why It's Selling ‘The Heart.' by InsideRadio. Coverage of Acast's recent earnings call, including higher-ups talking through their strategies, layoffs, and revealing Acast only sold 28% of their ad inventory in 2021. In the interest of clarity, it's worth keeping in mind InsideRadio is owned by competitor iHeartMedia.  The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Apple's funding podcasts, brand safety tech continues to divide advertisers, what more can and should ad agencies do to support journalism, Edison's Latino Podcast Report, and Spotify bundles Chartable and Podsights access for Megaphone users Apple Ramps Up Its In-House Podcasting Efforts with Studio Deal Manuela: Rumors of Apple getting into podcasting bore fruit last week with official confirmation. At least, sort of. Ashley Carman and Lucas Shaw's Bloomberg piece from last Wednesday explains:  “The investments have been led by Apple's TV studio, rather than its podcast division. Despite being one of the biggest distributors of audio in the world, the company's podcasting unit has avoided funding individual shows or buying networks because it wants to be seen as a neutral platform.”  That TV division has entered into a deal with Futuro Studios to fund the creation of podcasts while Apple retains first-look rights on film and TV adaptations. In essence, the deal creates a pilot-factory for Apple to generate new IP and test them in the world of podcasting before graduating to the more expensive filmed version.  “Apple hasn't pumped nearly as much money into original podcasts as Amazon and Spotify Technology SA, which have each spent more than $1 billion acquiring companies and programming. Spotify, Apple's rival in music streaming, has made some of the most popular podcasts in the world exclusive to its service and thus unavailable to the competition.” Podcasting is becoming a relatively affordable testing ground for IP instead of fully committing to a TV pilot, along with the added bonus of any successful IP getting a built-in audience of fans before the first day of shooting. Successful shows like Netflix's Dirty John adaptation are proving the method can work and work well.  ‘A key impediment': Brand safety tech continues to divide advertisers into haves and have-nots Shreya: This Monday Seb Joseph of Digiday posted an article detailing the growing divide in how advertisers handle being posted to news sites when big, predominantly negative stories break. Nobody wants to be the next viral sensation getting roasted worse than Mr. Peanut when Planters' ad campaign temporarily killing their mascot coincided with the death of Kobe Bryant.  In a world full of dangerous news cycles, brand safety tech companies like Integral Ad Science are able to impart more granular control over what content is considered brand-safe in a timely manner.  “Then there are those marketers who don't use the technology. Take British newspaper group Reach plc, for example, which has said the war in Ukraine significantly dampened advertiser demand. This won't surprise anyone. The truth is the downside is too steep and the upside too obscure for many marketers to do anything but avoid the polarizing news. That said, not every marketer sees it this way. And if they could afford to, they would advertise on news sites — just in a more nuanced manner.” An unintended side effect of advertisers deciding what topics are acceptable to block ads on is that some of the biggest news stories are also cutting off some of the potentially best-written journalism of the moment. Joseph quotes Zefr EVP of Strategy and Marketing: “We actually don't accept or use keyword blocklists as a policy in our company, because they end up causing the same damage to over-blocking quality voices over and over again and they just don't work well in UGC environments. We instead apply the GARM [Global Alliance of Responsible Media] models for debated sensitive social issues as a way to keep brands in front of suitable content while avoiding the issues that they're concerned about.”  Ad Agencies Can, and Should, Do More to Support Journalism Shreya: Between hedge fund buyouts dissolving seemingly bulletproof institutions and ad dollars drying up when negative stories drop, things are looking rough for journalists. Ricardo Baca writes an impassioned plea for ad agencies, stressing the importance of not only collaborating with journalists but also supporting them with ad buys and subscriptions. He writes from the perspective of having worked on the other side of the fence as a journalist himself years prior.  “To be clear, agencies are partly to blame here. We're stuck on the same vicious treadmill as everyone else: We see the web traffic going to social media, so that's where we buy our ads, further siphoning away support from journalism, the snake eating itself. And with news outlets struggling mightily on the revenue front no matter their size—from local alt-weeklies to major metropolitan dailies—I am making a plea for agencies to step up.” Baca suggests treating relationships with journalists not as transactional, but symbiotic instead. Value their time and they will value yours. Don't hold grudges when well-researched reporting generates something the client isn't happy with. Then there's the fact that journalism has evolved beyond gumshoe reporters all working for a monolithic outlet. With more forms of professional journalism becoming the norm, so to must go the advertising support.  “Keep in mind that revenue models have shifted. Consider an agency sponsorship for a Substack newsletter, for example. Sponsoring other popular media formats like podcasts, recognizing both a shift in consumers' habits as well as the continuity involved—someone's got to be paid to create the stuff—is another way to directly support the trade.” Gabe's Section Manuela: The third annual Latino Podcast Listener Report was published on Tuesday, following a webinar discussing the results presented by Gabriel Soto, my co-host on La Descarga and Senior Director at Edison Research, and Elsie Escobar, Director of Community and Content at Libsyn and co-founder of She Podcasts. Supported by Adonde Media, LWC Studios, Libsyn, PRX, and SXM Media this year's report revealed many interesting trends as well as new findings. The study finds that 59% of Latino adults have ever listened to a podcast, up from 56% since last year and up from 45% since 2020.  The lack of Spanish podcast promotion was a recurring theme of the report, and an opportunity exists to bridge such content with foreign born Latinos. The report highlighted the listening gap between Latinos born outside of the U.S. and their U.S. born counterparts. 37% of Latinos born in the U.S. listened to a podcast in the last month, while 29% born outside of the U.S. say the same.  A new statistic released this year revealed seventeen percent of Latino Monthly podcast listeners identify as LGBTQ+. For comparison, the report cited the Gallup poll's 2021 estimate of 11% of Latino adult population who identify as LGBTQ+  The benefit of advertising on Latino podcasts was also discussed. According to the report, 64% of monthly listeners of Latino-hosted podcasts, say they ever purchased a product or service as a result of hearing a sponsorship or advertising on a podcast, compared with 25% of those who have never listened to a podcast hosted by Latinos saying the same. .  As Gabriel Soto put it, “Latinos in the U.S. control an impressive $1.9 trillion in purchasing power, and today's data demonstrate how advertisers who support Latino podcast content are benefitting, while those who don't are missing out,”.  The Latino Podcast Listener Report serves as an invaluable resource to many creators in the podcast space. We're happy to see the effort continue. You can download the Latino Podcast Listener Report for free at the link in the show notes. Spotify Launches New Bundle For Megaphone Users, Adding Access To Chartable And Podsights Shreya: In an email sent yesterday, Spotify has announced they are bundling enterprise access to recently-purchased services Chartable and Podsights into Megaphone.  “With this updated offering, you will be able to easily apply attribution measurement to showcase the value of your podcast promotional efforts as well as your direct sales campaigns. All Megaphone clients will now be able to obtain unique insights about their podcast audience while also measuring the audience growth impact of their promotional campaigns through tools like Chartable SmartPromos and SmartLinks.”  Attribution and growth marketing are the major focus in the world of podcast adtech. One of the largest enterprise-focused hosting platforms acquiring two of the top attribution and analytics solutions and offering them for free to existing users is a big deal budget-wise. Though it is worth noting there are strings attached: they're free for the first four million impressions.  Since the big Spotify purchase of Podsights and Chartable there's been a massive hole for third party attribution. Companies like Claritas, Veritonic, and Artsai who've started to take on that challenge have had an uphill battle. Both Podsights and Chartable are great pieces of tech, but first-party is not neutral. Offers like this will make it even harder to extract them from their hold on the space and jeopardizes third party measurements value in podcasting.  A good deal, but one to keep in mind when considering the future of podcasting as an industry.  Quick Hits: Recommended Weekend Reading Manuela: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week's three great reads are: How alt.NPR's experimentation shaped the early podcasting landscape starting in 2005 by Shirley Liu. They didn't invent podcasting, but NPR was definitely a pioneer. Podcasting opened up NPR to experimentation and launched the careers of so many podcasters. Ad Disclosure: Podcast Sponsors Aren't Off the Hook from last Thursday's PodMov Daily. A story of meal replacement brand Huel getting in hot water over host-read advertising. Podcasting, given its position at the crossroads between radio and influencer marketing, will start to see quite a few stories like this as it continues to enter more mainstream content channels. Unpaid Internship Rebrands as a $4,000 "Training" by Skye Pillsbury. This issue of Pillsbury's can't-miss newsletter The Squeeze covers a story exactly as bad as the headline sounds. A true must-read. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: Apple's funding podcasts, brand safety tech continues to divide advertisers, what more can and should ad agencies do to support journalism, Edison's Latino Podcast Report, and Spotify bundles Chartable and Podsights access for Megaphone users Apple Ramps Up Its In-House Podcasting Efforts with Studio Deal Manuela: Rumors of Apple getting into podcasting bore fruit last week with official confirmation. At least, sort of. Ashley Carman and Lucas Shaw's Bloomberg piece from last Wednesday explains:  “The investments have been led by Apple's TV studio, rather than its podcast division. Despite being one of the biggest distributors of audio in the world, the company's podcasting unit has avoided funding individual shows or buying networks because it wants to be seen as a neutral platform.”  That TV division has entered into a deal with Futuro Studios to fund the creation of podcasts while Apple retains first-look rights on film and TV adaptations. In essence, the deal creates a pilot-factory for Apple to generate new IP and test them in the world of podcasting before graduating to the more expensive filmed version.  “Apple hasn't pumped nearly as much money into original podcasts as Amazon and Spotify Technology SA, which have each spent more than $1 billion acquiring companies and programming. Spotify, Apple's rival in music streaming, has made some of the most popular podcasts in the world exclusive to its service and thus unavailable to the competition.” Podcasting is becoming a relatively affordable testing ground for IP instead of fully committing to a TV pilot, along with the added bonus of any successful IP getting a built-in audience of fans before the first day of shooting. Successful shows like Netflix's Dirty John adaptation are proving the method can work and work well.  ‘A key impediment': Brand safety tech continues to divide advertisers into haves and have-nots Shreya: This Monday Seb Joseph of Digiday posted an article detailing the growing divide in how advertisers handle being posted to news sites when big, predominantly negative stories break. Nobody wants to be the next viral sensation getting roasted worse than Mr. Peanut when Planters' ad campaign temporarily killing their mascot coincided with the death of Kobe Bryant.  In a world full of dangerous news cycles, brand safety tech companies like Integral Ad Science are able to impart more granular control over what content is considered brand-safe in a timely manner.  “Then there are those marketers who don't use the technology. Take British newspaper group Reach plc, for example, which has said the war in Ukraine significantly dampened advertiser demand. This won't surprise anyone. The truth is the downside is too steep and the upside too obscure for many marketers to do anything but avoid the polarizing news. That said, not every marketer sees it this way. And if they could afford to, they would advertise on news sites — just in a more nuanced manner.” An unintended side effect of advertisers deciding what topics are acceptable to block ads on is that some of the biggest news stories are also cutting off some of the potentially best-written journalism of the moment. Joseph quotes Zefr EVP of Strategy and Marketing: “We actually don't accept or use keyword blocklists as a policy in our company, because they end up causing the same damage to over-blocking quality voices over and over again and they just don't work well in UGC environments. We instead apply the GARM [Global Alliance of Responsible Media] models for debated sensitive social issues as a way to keep brands in front of suitable content while avoiding the issues that they're concerned about.”  Ad Agencies Can, and Should, Do More to Support Journalism Shreya: Between hedge fund buyouts dissolving seemingly bulletproof institutions and ad dollars drying up when negative stories drop, things are looking rough for journalists. Ricardo Baca writes an impassioned plea for ad agencies, stressing the importance of not only collaborating with journalists but also supporting them with ad buys and subscriptions. He writes from the perspective of having worked on the other side of the fence as a journalist himself years prior.  “To be clear, agencies are partly to blame here. We're stuck on the same vicious treadmill as everyone else: We see the web traffic going to social media, so that's where we buy our ads, further siphoning away support from journalism, the snake eating itself. And with news outlets struggling mightily on the revenue front no matter their size—from local alt-weeklies to major metropolitan dailies—I am making a plea for agencies to step up.” Baca suggests treating relationships with journalists not as transactional, but symbiotic instead. Value their time and they will value yours. Don't hold grudges when well-researched reporting generates something the client isn't happy with. Then there's the fact that journalism has evolved beyond gumshoe reporters all working for a monolithic outlet. With more forms of professional journalism becoming the norm, so to must go the advertising support.  “Keep in mind that revenue models have shifted. Consider an agency sponsorship for a Substack newsletter, for example. Sponsoring other popular media formats like podcasts, recognizing both a shift in consumers' habits as well as the continuity involved—someone's got to be paid to create the stuff—is another way to directly support the trade.” Gabe's Section Manuela: The third annual Latino Podcast Listener Report was published on Tuesday, following a webinar discussing the results presented by Gabriel Soto, my co-host on La Descarga and Senior Director at Edison Research, and Elsie Escobar, Director of Community and Content at Libsyn and co-founder of She Podcasts. Supported by Adonde Media, LWC Studios, Libsyn, PRX, and SXM Media this year's report revealed many interesting trends as well as new findings. The study finds that 59% of Latino adults have ever listened to a podcast, up from 56% since last year and up from 45% since 2020.  The lack of Spanish podcast promotion was a recurring theme of the report, and an opportunity exists to bridge such content with foreign born Latinos. The report highlighted the listening gap between Latinos born outside of the U.S. and their U.S. born counterparts. 37% of Latinos born in the U.S. listened to a podcast in the last month, while 29% born outside of the U.S. say the same.  A new statistic released this year revealed seventeen percent of Latino Monthly podcast listeners identify as LGBTQ+. For comparison, the report cited the Gallup poll's 2021 estimate of 11% of Latino adult population who identify as LGBTQ+  The benefit of advertising on Latino podcasts was also discussed. According to the report, 64% of monthly listeners of Latino-hosted podcasts, say they ever purchased a product or service as a result of hearing a sponsorship or advertising on a podcast, compared with 25% of those who have never listened to a podcast hosted by Latinos saying the same. .  As Gabriel Soto put it, “Latinos in the U.S. control an impressive $1.9 trillion in purchasing power, and today's data demonstrate how advertisers who support Latino podcast content are benefitting, while those who don't are missing out,”.  The Latino Podcast Listener Report serves as an invaluable resource to many creators in the podcast space. We're happy to see the effort continue. You can download the Latino Podcast Listener Report for free at the link in the show notes. Spotify Launches New Bundle For Megaphone Users, Adding Access To Chartable And Podsights Shreya: In an email sent yesterday, Spotify has announced they are bundling enterprise access to recently-purchased services Chartable and Podsights into Megaphone.  “With this updated offering, you will be able to easily apply attribution measurement to showcase the value of your podcast promotional efforts as well as your direct sales campaigns. All Megaphone clients will now be able to obtain unique insights about their podcast audience while also measuring the audience growth impact of their promotional campaigns through tools like Chartable SmartPromos and SmartLinks.”  Attribution and growth marketing are the major focus in the world of podcast adtech. One of the largest enterprise-focused hosting platforms acquiring two of the top attribution and analytics solutions and offering them for free to existing users is a big deal budget-wise. Though it is worth noting there are strings attached: they're free for the first four million impressions.  Since the big Spotify purchase of Podsights and Chartable there's been a massive hole for third party attribution. Companies like Claritas, Veritonic, and Artsai who've started to take on that challenge have had an uphill battle. Both Podsights and Chartable are great pieces of tech, but first-party is not neutral. Offers like this will make it even harder to extract them from their hold on the space and jeopardizes third party measurements value in podcasting.  A good deal, but one to keep in mind when considering the future of podcasting as an industry.  Quick Hits: Recommended Weekend Reading Manuela: Finally, it's time for our semi-regular roundup of articles we're calling Quick Hits. These are articles that didn't quite make the cut for today's episode, but are still worth including in your weekend reading. This week's three great reads are: How alt.NPR's experimentation shaped the early podcasting landscape starting in 2005 by Shirley Liu. They didn't invent podcasting, but NPR was definitely a pioneer. Podcasting opened up NPR to experimentation and launched the careers of so many podcasters. Ad Disclosure: Podcast Sponsors Aren't Off the Hook from last Thursday's PodMov Daily. A story of meal replacement brand Huel getting in hot water over host-read advertising. Podcasting, given its position at the crossroads between radio and influencer marketing, will start to see quite a few stories like this as it continues to enter more mainstream content channels. Unpaid Internship Rebrands as a $4,000 "Training" by Skye Pillsbury. This issue of Pillsbury's can't-miss newsletter The Squeeze covers a story exactly as bad as the headline sounds. A true must-read. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Esta semana: Apple llega a un acuerdo con una casa de producción Latina, varios discuten la seguridad de marca, se publica el Latino Podcast Listener Report, y Spotify brinda una nueva oferta para usuarios de megaphone Apple aumenta sus esfuerzos de podcasting en un trato con casa de producción Manuela: Se confirmaron rumores de que Apple se metió en el podcasting la semana pasada. El artículo de Bloomberg de Ashley Carman y Lucas Shaw del miércoles pasado explica: “Las inversiones han sido lideradas por el estudio de televisión de Apple, en lugar de su división de podcasts. A pesar de ser uno de los distribuidores de audio más grandes del mundo, la unidad de podcasting de la compañía ha evitado financiar programas individuales o comprar redes porque quiere ser vista como una plataforma neutral”. Esa división de televisión ha llegado a un acuerdo con Futuro Studios, la casa de producción fundada por la periodista latina Maria Hinojosa, para financiar la creación de podcasts, mientras que Apple conserva los derechos de primera vista sobre las adaptaciones de cine y televisión. En lo esencial, el acuerdo crea una fábrica para hacer pilotos de contenido para que Apple genere nuevas propiedades intelectuales y las pruebe en el mundo de los podcasts antes de pasar a la versión filmada más costosa. “Apple no ha invertido tanto dinero en podcasts originales como Amazon y Spotify Technology SA, que han gastado cada uno más de mil millones de dólares en adquisición de empresas y programación. Spotify, el rival de Apple en la transmisión de música, ha hecho que algunos de los podcasts más populares del mundo sean exclusivos de su servicio y, por lo tanto, no estén disponibles para la competencia”. Podcasting se está convirtiendo en un campo de pruebas relativamente asequible para propiedades intelectuales en lugar de comprometerse por completo con un piloto de TV, junto con la ventaja adicional de que cualquiera propiedad intelectual exitosa obtiene una audiencia integrada de fanáticos antes del primer día de rodaje. Programas exitosos como la adaptación de Dirty John de Netflix están demostrando que el método puede funcionar y funcionar bien. 'Un impedimento clave': la tecnología de seguridad de la marca continúa dividiendo a los anunciantes entre ricos y pobres Gabe: Este lunes, Seb Joseph de Digiday publicó un artículo que detalla la creciente división en la forma en que los anunciantes manejan ser publicados en sitios de noticias cuando surgen grandes historias principalmente negativas. Nadie quiere ser la próxima sensación viral que sale peor que el Sr. Peanut cuando la campaña publicitaria de Planters que mató temporalmente a su mascota coincidió con la muerte de Kobe Bryant.  En un mundo lleno de ciclos de noticias peligrosas, las empresas de tecnología de seguridad de marca como Integral Ad Science pueden impartir un control más granular sobre qué contenido se considera seguro para la marca de manera oportuna. Luego están aquellos especialistas en marketing que no usan la tecnología. Tome el grupo de periódicos británico Reach plc, por ejemplo, que ha dicho que la guerra en Ucrania redujo significativamente la demanda de los anunciantes. “Esto no sorprenderá a nadie. La verdad es que la desventaja es demasiado pronunciada y la ventaja demasiado oscura para que muchos especialistas en marketing hagan algo más que evitar las noticias polarizadoras. Dicho esto, no todos los especialistas en marketing lo ven de esta manera. Y si pudieran permitírselo, se anunciarán en sitios de noticias, solo que de una manera más matizada.” Un efecto secundario no deseado de que los anunciantes decidan qué temas son aceptables para bloquear anuncios es que algunas de las noticias más importantes también eliminan parte del periodismo potencialmente mejor escrito del momento. Joseph cita al vicepresidente ejecutivo de estrategia y marketing de Zefr: “En realidad, no aceptamos ni usamos listas de bloqueo de palabras clave como una política en nuestra empresa, porque terminan causando el mismo daño al bloquear en exceso las voces de calidad una y otra vez, y simplemente no funcionan bien en entornos de contenido generado por usarios. En su lugar, aplicamos los modelos GARM [Global Alliance of Responsible Media] para temas sociales delicados debatidos como una forma de mantener a las marcas frente a contenido adecuado y evitar los problemas que les preocupan”. Latino Podcast Listener Report / Informe de oyentes latinos de podcast Manuela: El tercer informe anual del Latino Podcast Listener Report, o en español Informe de oyentes latinos de podcasts, se publicó el martes, tras un webinar sobre los resultados presentado por Gabriel Soto, coanfitrión de La Descarga y director sénior de Edison Research, y Elsie Escobar, directora de comunidad y contenido de Libsyn y cofundadora de She Podcasts. Con el apoyo de Adonde Media, LWC Studios, Libsyn, PRX y SXM Media, el informe de este año reveló muchas tendencias interesantes, así como nuevos hallazgos. El estudio encuentra que el 59% de los adultos latinos han escuchado alguna vez un podcast, frente al 56% desde el año pasado y al 45% desde el 2020. La falta de promoción de podcasts en español fue un tema recurrente del informe, y existe una oportunidad para unir dicho contenido con los latinos nacidos fuera de EE.UU. El 37% de los latinos nacidos en EE. UU. escuchó un podcast en el último mes, mientras que el 29% de los nacidos fuera de EE. UU. dice lo mismo. Una nueva estadística publicada este año reveló que el 17% de los latinos que son oyentes mensuales de podcasts se identifican como LGBTQ+. Para comparar, el informe citó la estimación de 2021 de la encuesta Gallup, la cual indica que 11 % de la población adulta latina se identifica como LGBTQ+. También se discutió el beneficio de la publicidad en los podcasts latinos. Según el informe, el 64% de los oyentes mensuales de podcasts presentados por latinos dicen que alguna vez compraron un producto o servicio como resultado de escuchar un patrocinio o publicidad en un podcast, en comparación con el 25% de los que nunca han escuchado un podcast presentado por latinos que dice lo mismo. Como dijo Gabriel Soto, “los latinos en los EE. UU. controlan un impresionante poder adquisitivo de $1,9 billones, y los datos de hoy demuestran cómo los anunciantes que apoyan el contenido de los podcasts latinos se benefician, mientras los que no lo hacen se lo pierden”. El Informe de oyentes de podcasts latinos es un recurso invaluable para muchos creadores en el mundo de los podcasts. Estamos felices de ver que el esfuerzo continúa. Puede descargar el informe del Latino Podcast Listener Report de forma gratuita en el enlace en los detalles del episodio. Las agencias de publicidad pueden y deben hacer más para apoyar el periodismo Gabe: Las cosas se ven difíciles para los periodistas. Ricardo Baca escribe una apasionada petición para las agencias de publicidad, destacando la importancia no solo de colaborar con los periodistas, sino también de apoyarlos con compras de anuncios y suscripciones. Escribe desde la perspectiva de haber trabajado al otro lado de cerca como periodista años antes. “Para ser claros, las agencias tienen parte de culpa aquí. Estamos atrapados en la misma rutina viciosa que todos los demás: vemos que el tráfico web se dirige a las redes sociales, así que ahí es donde compramos nuestros anuncios, desviando aún más el apoyo del periodismo, la serpiente se come a sí misma. Y con los medios de comunicación luchando poderosamente en el frente de los ingresos sin importar su tamaño, desde los semanarios alternativos locales hasta los principales diarios metropolitanos, estoy haciendo un suplica a las agencias para que den un paso al frente”. Baca sugiere tratar las relaciones con los periodistas no como transaccionales, sino como simbióticas. Valora su tiempo y ellos valorarán el tuyo. No guarde rencor cuando un informe bien investigado genera algo con lo que el cliente no está satisfecho. Luego está el hecho de que el periodismo ha evolucionado más allá de los reporteros de gumshoe que trabajan para un medio monolítico. Con más formas de periodismo profesional convirtiéndose en la norma, también debe ir el apoyo publicitario. “Tenga en cuenta que los modelos de ingresos han cambiado. Considere el patrocinio de una agencia para un boletín Substack, por ejemplo. Patrocinar otros formatos de medios populares como podcasts, reconocer tanto un cambio en los hábitos de los consumidores como la continuidad involucrada (alguien debe pagar para crear las cosas) es otra forma de apoyar directamente el comercio”. Spotify lanza un nuevo paquete para usuarios de Megaphone, agregando acceso a Chartable y Podsights Manuela: En un correo electrónico enviado ayer, Spotify anunció que están agrupando el acceso empresarial a los servicios adquiridos recientemente Chartable y Podsights en Megaphone. “Con esta oferta actualizada, podrá aplicar fácilmente la medición de atribución para mostrar el valor de sus esfuerzos promocionales de podcast, así como sus campañas de ventas directas. Todos los clientes de Megaphone ahora podrán obtener información única sobre la audiencia de su podcast y, al mismo tiempo, medir el impacto del crecimiento de la audiencia de sus campañas promocionales a través de herramientas como Chartable SmartPromos y SmartLinks”. La atribución y el marketing de crecimiento son el enfoque principal en el mundo de la tecnología publicitaria de podcast. Una de las mayores plataformas de alojamiento centradas en empresas que adquiere dos de las mejores soluciones de atribución y análisis y las ofrece de forma gratuita a los usuarios existentes es un gran problema en cuanto al presupuesto. Aunque vale la pena señalar que hay condiciones: son gratis para los primeros cuatro millones de impresiones. Desde la gran compra de Spotify de Podsights y Chartable, ha habido un agujero enorme para la atribución de terceros. Empresas como Claritas, Veritonic y Artsai, que han comenzado a asumir ese desafío, han tenido una batalla dificil. Tanto Podsights como Chartable son excelentes piezas de tecnología, pero la primera parte no es neutral. Ofertas como esta harán que sea aún más difícil sacarlos de su dominio sobre el espacio y ponen en peligro el valor de las mediciones de terceros en el podcasting. Un buen trato, pero hay que tenerlo en cuenta al considerar el futuro del podcasting como industria. La Descarga es una producción de Sounds Profitable. El episodio de hoy fue presentado por Manuela Bedoya y Gabriel Soto, y escrito por Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta y Tom Webster son los productores ejecutivos de La Descarga de Sounds Profitable.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Integral Ad Science Holding Corp., Q2 2022 Earnings Call, Aug 04, 2022

Lo esencial que debes saber: - España supera a EE. UU. En la escucha de pódcast. - Facebook hace cambios para competir con TikTok. - Los consumidores están buscando ‘humor' y las marcas no están ofreciéndolo. - Diego Barrazas, conductor del pódcast ‘DEMENTES' comparte la clave para vivir de un pódcast. - El festival latinoamericano “Podcastinación Ficción” explorará diversos géneros que hablen de personas que subvierten expectativas sociales. - Patricia Luciano, gestora de talentos y voice mentor, presentará nuevamente los Latin Podcasts Awards. - Agustín Espada, asegura que la radio ha logrado reinventarse, pero hoy enfrenta el desafío de ir a buscar al oyente. - Spotify se une a “Integral Ad Science”, para ayudar a la industria a brindar más transparencia y confianza en la publicidad de pódcast. - Alexandra Cooper, que comenzó el pódcast “Call Her Daddy” en 2018, compra una propiedad valorada en $10 millones. - ¿Cómo podría cambiar el mercado de los audiolibros con la llegada de Spotify?  Únete a nuestro nuevo grupo en Twitter ‘Hablemos de los pódcast'. Una comunidad para que los podcasters compartan tendencias, novedades y experiencias que les ayuden a hacer crecer un pódcast. ¡Conéctate aquí! Pódcast recomendado Mi Mejor Versión. Este es un programa de salud mental. Isa García, provee consejos para que podamos querernos, aceptarnos y mejorar nuestra autoestima. Además, comparte noticias de actualidad y estilo de vida saludable.

Advertising and marketing stocks. Integral Ad Science (IAS) stock went public in June 2021. The verification company for digital advertising protects brands' reputation by assuring that ads are seen by real people in appropriate settings. CEO Lisa Utzschneider weighs in on the Integral Ad Science earnings report that indicated $0.01 in EPS and $89.2M in revenue. How is Integral Ad Science (IAS) partnering with TikTok?

Digital advertising is expected to also continue outperforming linear advertising formats and eventually represent 60 percent of total advertiser budgets by 2026, with social media as a key priority. Tony Marlow, Chief Marketing Officer, Integral Ad Science shares how marketers can make the most of social media penetration in Singapore and at the same time safeguard their ad dollars on social media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on The Download from Sounds Profitable; big names in podcasting are pulling down big numbers in ad revenue, Meta and Mozilla have teamed up to change advertising privacy, and TikTok might not be the #1 place to take short-form podcast content. On a sober, world-news note: Advertisers are weathering unintended consequences from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ryan Barwick of Morning Brew wrote a brief rundown of the situation last Friday. According to a Business Insider report, Google AdSense has been found on publishers of Russian state propaganda. “While on those sites, BI observed Google-served ads from Best Buy, Progressive, and Allbirds, and a handful of other brands. Marketing Brew also saw ads for brands on these two sites, but a banner ad atop several stories was blocked by Integral Ad Science, a brand-safety firm.” Barwick then pairs this evidence of brand safety kind-of working with the infamously-timed Applebee’s promotion that aired in a split-screen ad break with footage of Kyiv under siege. The ad, featuring footage of a man in a cowboy hat gyrating his butt in glee over $1 boneless chicken wings, went viral on social media for its grim pairing with footage of burning buildings. “What do these stories have in common? Funding journalism. Advertisers often don’t want to fund inflammatory, hateful, or controversial content. While brand-safety tech might help marketers avoid having their ads showing up on propaganda sites, it can also direct their ads away from legitimate coverage of political or other sensitive topics, inadvertently hurting newsrooms as a result.” Both the propaganda site ad serves and Applebee’s pulling from CNN serve as evidence of extremes of what could happen in similar spheres of podcasting. To ignore brand safety and the messaging of associated programs is a recipe for being associated with disinformation and propaganda. To overcorrect and leave the space entirely could leave journalism podcasts without the stability of CNN in a financial pickle. Continuing the Morning Brew coverage: last week Alyssa Meyers rounded up the earnings highlights of some giants in the podcasting industry. SiriusXM, Spotify, Acast, and iHeartMedia all show significant growth. Both Spotify and Acast posted a 40% year-over-year increase for ad revenue while SiriusXM-owned Pandora experienced a 30% growth. The biggest headline-grabber of the bunch, though, is iHeartMedia “Q4 revenue grew 59% in iHeartMedia’s ‘Digital Audio Group’ division, which encompasses iHeartMedia’s podcasting business, digital service, and ad-tech companies. Podcast revenue alone increased 130% YoY. The company said the growth was partly due to ‘general increased demand for digital advertising’ and ‘the growing popularity of podcasting.” It appears the industry-wide trope of saying podcasting ads are fast-growing is less of a marketing pitch and more a truism as more companies rake in those fast-growing profits. Up next we have a story shuffled into the digital stack of news and left by the wayside: Spotify appears to be better at announcing podcast deals than actually publishing podcasts. While a Business Insider article was published on February 18th, much of the original reporting on the subject was done by Podnews’ James Cridland in the December article Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements. As Cridland and others report: a great deal of splashy Spotify projects announced since December of 2020 have yet to come to fruition. Some announcements were vague deals akin to a popular actor signing a multi-picture deal with a prominent movie studio. Others, however, appear to have died on the vine. Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment’s celebrity-studded Batman audio fiction series has fallen off the radar since announcing its cast last June. British royalty power couple Meghan and Harry signed up in December of 2020. The most concerning is Kim Kardashian West’s partnership with Spotify and Parcast. Cridland writes “In March 2021 she hinted she was ready to release her episodes. Where are they?” eMarketer’s Sara Lebow shared some fascinating data last week with a chart of the day post titled TikTok isn’t the No. 1 US app for shorter videos. In fact, the data gathered by CensusWide in late January puts TikTok in third place with 53.9% of respondents sixteen and up. The top two are Facebook and YouTube with 60.8 and 77.9% respectively. As podcasters explore video podcasting, or simply video clips promoting their shows, TikTok is constantly brought up. The format of what makes a successful Facebook or YouTube video are far different than what pleases TikTok’s famous algorithm, making it difficult to reuse assets. The results of this study seem to imply that while TikTok is valuable, those new to video as an advertising medium would have a better shot at developing content and skills that are useful in the long run. Another interesting facet of this story is CensusWide got these numbers before YouTube launched their TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts, effectively cloning Tiktok’s endless stream of short-form content in the existing YouTube ecosystem. But then news dropped to complicate things further: Monday TikTok announced they will be allowing users to post videos up to ten minutes in length, more than doubling the original limit of three minutes. Sara Fischer, writing for Axios, broke the news of German publishing company Axel Springer investing in a new podcasting company Spooler. Working with Insider, Spooler will co-produce daily news podcast The Refresh from Insider with a special trick: Spooler’s proprietary tech will allow the hosts to add new segments to that morning’s episode as the day’s news progresses. “For news companies, the expectation is that producers could build ‘playlist programs’ that Spooler automatically stitches together to make the podcast sound seamless, even though it's being repeatedly updated. The bespoke player on Insider.com and Insider's app will allow users to skip over segments they've already heard.” Meanwhile, last week iHeartMedia announced Talk Back, an in-app feature allowing podcast-listening audiences to send voice messages to show hosts. There must be something in the Spring air as podcast companies seem to be in the mood to experiment and innovate, pushing the limits of what podcast tech can do. A social media network and an internet browser have teamed up to make ads less intrusive. Trey Titone writes for Ad Tech Explained: “When Meta and Mozilla team up to improve digital advertising, you should probably pay attention. The two companies joined forces to create Interoperable Private Attribution or IPA, a framework for attribution measurement without tracking users.” The teamup shows changing times and attitudes between the companies. Back in 2018 when Meta was still Facebook, Mozilla developed an extension for their Firefox browser with one goal: keep Facebook from watching users’ web activity outside of Facebook. Now the two are teamed up with a proposed framework that could follow pro-privacy trends formed by Google and Apple to find a way to provide useful advertising data while protecting the individual’s privacy. Titone’s breakdown of what Meta and Mozilla have proposed IPA will be, as well as what its constituent parts might actually do, is incredibly thorough. Thorough enough to necessitate a table of contents. Check it out. For more thoughts on the subject of podcast advertising and a quality-over-quantity approach, The Download recommends Brian Morrissey’s Substack newsletter piece “End of an era of ad targeting: Publishers will need closer ties to their audiences.” We should know, we covered it last week. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Evo Terra are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable. Special thanks to Ian Powell for his audio prowess, and to our media host, Omny Studio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on The Download from Sounds Profitable; big names in podcasting are pulling down big numbers in ad revenue, Meta and Mozilla have teamed up to change advertising privacy, and TikTok might not be the #1 place to take short-form podcast content. On a sober, world-news note: Advertisers are weathering unintended consequences from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ryan Barwick of Morning Brew wrote a brief rundown of the situation last Friday. According to a Business Insider report, Google AdSense has been found on publishers of Russian state propaganda. “While on those sites, BI observed Google-served ads from Best Buy, Progressive, and Allbirds, and a handful of other brands. Marketing Brew also saw ads for brands on these two sites, but a banner ad atop several stories was blocked by Integral Ad Science, a brand-safety firm.” Barwick then pairs this evidence of brand safety kind-of working with the infamously-timed Applebee's promotion that aired in a split-screen ad break with footage of Kyiv under siege. The ad, featuring footage of a man in a cowboy hat gyrating his butt in glee over $1 boneless chicken wings, went viral on social media for its grim pairing with footage of burning buildings. “What do these stories have in common? Funding journalism. Advertisers often don't want to fund inflammatory, hateful, or controversial content. While brand-safety tech might help marketers avoid having their ads showing up on propaganda sites, it can also direct their ads away from legitimate coverage of political or other sensitive topics, inadvertently hurting newsrooms as a result.” Both the propaganda site ad serves and Applebee's pulling from CNN serve as evidence of extremes of what could happen in similar spheres of podcasting. To ignore brand safety and the messaging of associated programs is a recipe for being associated with disinformation and propaganda. To overcorrect and leave the space entirely could leave journalism podcasts without the stability of CNN in a financial pickle. Continuing the Morning Brew coverage: last week Alyssa Meyers rounded up the earnings highlights of some giants in the podcasting industry. SiriusXM, Spotify, Acast, and iHeartMedia all show significant growth. Both Spotify and Acast posted a 40% year-over-year increase for ad revenue while SiriusXM-owned Pandora experienced a 30% growth. The biggest headline-grabber of the bunch, though, is iHeartMedia “Q4 revenue grew 59% in iHeartMedia's ‘Digital Audio Group' division, which encompasses iHeartMedia's podcasting business, digital service, and ad-tech companies. Podcast revenue alone increased 130% YoY. The company said the growth was partly due to ‘general increased demand for digital advertising' and ‘the growing popularity of podcasting.” It appears the industry-wide trope of saying podcasting ads are fast-growing is less of a marketing pitch and more a truism as more companies rake in those fast-growing profits. Up next we have a story shuffled into the digital stack of news and left by the wayside: Spotify appears to be better at announcing podcast deals than actually publishing podcasts. While a Business Insider article was published on February 18th, much of the original reporting on the subject was done by Podnews' James Cridland in the December article Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements. As Cridland and others report: a great deal of splashy Spotify projects announced since December of 2020 have yet to come to fruition. Some announcements were vague deals akin to a popular actor signing a multi-picture deal with a prominent movie studio. Others, however, appear to have died on the vine. Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment's celebrity-studded Batman audio fiction series has fallen off the radar since announcing its cast last June. British royalty power couple Meghan and Harry signed up in December of 2020. The most concerning is Kim Kardashian West's partnership with Spotify and Parcast. Cridland writes “In March 2021 she hinted she was ready to release her episodes. Where are they?” eMarketer's Sara Lebow shared some fascinating data last week with a chart of the day post titled TikTok isn't the No. 1 US app for shorter videos. In fact, the data gathered by CensusWide in late January puts TikTok in third place with 53.9% of respondents sixteen and up. The top two are Facebook and YouTube with 60.8 and 77.9% respectively. As podcasters explore video podcasting, or simply video clips promoting their shows, TikTok is constantly brought up. The format of what makes a successful Facebook or YouTube video are far different than what pleases TikTok's famous algorithm, making it difficult to reuse assets. The results of this study seem to imply that while TikTok is valuable, those new to video as an advertising medium would have a better shot at developing content and skills that are useful in the long run. Another interesting facet of this story is CensusWide got these numbers before YouTube launched their TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts, effectively cloning Tiktok's endless stream of short-form content in the existing YouTube ecosystem. But then news dropped to complicate things further: Monday TikTok announced they will be allowing users to post videos up to ten minutes in length, more than doubling the original limit of three minutes. Sara Fischer, writing for Axios, broke the news of German publishing company Axel Springer investing in a new podcasting company Spooler. Working with Insider, Spooler will co-produce daily news podcast The Refresh from Insider with a special trick: Spooler's proprietary tech will allow the hosts to add new segments to that morning's episode as the day's news progresses. “For news companies, the expectation is that producers could build ‘playlist programs' that Spooler automatically stitches together to make the podcast sound seamless, even though it's being repeatedly updated. The bespoke player on Insider.com and Insider's app will allow users to skip over segments they've already heard.” Meanwhile, last week iHeartMedia announced Talk Back, an in-app feature allowing podcast-listening audiences to send voice messages to show hosts. There must be something in the Spring air as podcast companies seem to be in the mood to experiment and innovate, pushing the limits of what podcast tech can do. A social media network and an internet browser have teamed up to make ads less intrusive. Trey Titone writes for Ad Tech Explained: “When Meta and Mozilla team up to improve digital advertising, you should probably pay attention. The two companies joined forces to create Interoperable Private Attribution or IPA, a framework for attribution measurement without tracking users.” The teamup shows changing times and attitudes between the companies. Back in 2018 when Meta was still Facebook, Mozilla developed an extension for their Firefox browser with one goal: keep Facebook from watching users' web activity outside of Facebook. Now the two are teamed up with a proposed framework that could follow pro-privacy trends formed by Google and Apple to find a way to provide useful advertising data while protecting the individual's privacy. Titone's breakdown of what Meta and Mozilla have proposed IPA will be, as well as what its constituent parts might actually do, is incredibly thorough. Thorough enough to necessitate a table of contents. Check it out. For more thoughts on the subject of podcast advertising and a quality-over-quantity approach, The Download recommends Brian Morrissey's Substack newsletter piece “End of an era of ad targeting: Publishers will need closer ties to their audiences.” We should know, we covered it last week. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Evo Terra are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable. Special thanks to Ian Powell for his audio prowess, and to our media host, Omny Studio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on The Download from Sounds Profitable; big names in podcasting are pulling down big numbers in ad revenue, Meta and Mozilla have teamed up to change advertising privacy, and TikTok might not be the #1 place to take short-form podcast content. On a sober, world-news note: Advertisers are weathering unintended consequences from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ryan Barwick of Morning Brew wrote a brief rundown of the situation last Friday. According to a Business Insider report, Google AdSense has been found on publishers of Russian state propaganda. “While on those sites, BI observed Google-served ads from Best Buy, Progressive, and Allbirds, and a handful of other brands. Marketing Brew also saw ads for brands on these two sites, but a banner ad atop several stories was blocked by Integral Ad Science, a brand-safety firm.” Barwick then pairs this evidence of brand safety kind-of working with the infamously-timed Applebee’s promotion that aired in a split-screen ad break with footage of Kyiv under siege. The ad, featuring footage of a man in a cowboy hat gyrating his butt in glee over $1 boneless chicken wings, went viral on social media for its grim pairing with footage of burning buildings. “What do these stories have in common? Funding journalism. Advertisers often don’t want to fund inflammatory, hateful, or controversial content. While brand-safety tech might help marketers avoid having their ads showing up on propaganda sites, it can also direct their ads away from legitimate coverage of political or other sensitive topics, inadvertently hurting newsrooms as a result.” Both the propaganda site ad serves and Applebee’s pulling from CNN serve as evidence of extremes of what could happen in similar spheres of podcasting. To ignore brand safety and the messaging of associated programs is a recipe for being associated with disinformation and propaganda. To overcorrect and leave the space entirely could leave journalism podcasts without the stability of CNN in a financial pickle. Continuing the Morning Brew coverage: last week Alyssa Meyers rounded up the earnings highlights of some giants in the podcasting industry. SiriusXM, Spotify, Acast, and iHeartMedia all show significant growth. Both Spotify and Acast posted a 40% year-over-year increase for ad revenue while SiriusXM-owned Pandora experienced a 30% growth. The biggest headline-grabber of the bunch, though, is iHeartMedia “Q4 revenue grew 59% in iHeartMedia’s ‘Digital Audio Group’ division, which encompasses iHeartMedia’s podcasting business, digital service, and ad-tech companies. Podcast revenue alone increased 130% YoY. The company said the growth was partly due to ‘general increased demand for digital advertising’ and ‘the growing popularity of podcasting.” It appears the industry-wide trope of saying podcasting ads are fast-growing is less of a marketing pitch and more a truism as more companies rake in those fast-growing profits. Up next we have a story shuffled into the digital stack of news and left by the wayside: Spotify appears to be better at announcing podcast deals than actually publishing podcasts. While a Business Insider article was published on February 18th, much of the original reporting on the subject was done by Podnews’ James Cridland in the December article Missing: the shows from these big Spotify announcements. As Cridland and others report: a great deal of splashy Spotify projects announced since December of 2020 have yet to come to fruition. Some announcements were vague deals akin to a popular actor signing a multi-picture deal with a prominent movie studio. Others, however, appear to have died on the vine. Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment’s celebrity-studded Batman audio fiction series has fallen off the radar since announcing its cast last June. British royalty power couple Meghan and Harry signed up in December of 2020. The most concerning is Kim Kardashian West’s partnership with Spotify and Parcast. Cridland writes “In March 2021 she hinted she was ready to release her episodes. Where are they?” eMarketer’s Sara Lebow shared some fascinating data last week with a chart of the day post titled TikTok isn’t the No. 1 US app for shorter videos. In fact, the data gathered by CensusWide in late January puts TikTok in third place with 53.9% of respondents sixteen and up. The top two are Facebook and YouTube with 60.8 and 77.9% respectively. As podcasters explore video podcasting, or simply video clips promoting their shows, TikTok is constantly brought up. The format of what makes a successful Facebook or YouTube video are far different than what pleases TikTok’s famous algorithm, making it difficult to reuse assets. The results of this study seem to imply that while TikTok is valuable, those new to video as an advertising medium would have a better shot at developing content and skills that are useful in the long run. Another interesting facet of this story is CensusWide got these numbers before YouTube launched their TikTok competitor YouTube Shorts, effectively cloning Tiktok’s endless stream of short-form content in the existing YouTube ecosystem. But then news dropped to complicate things further: Monday TikTok announced they will be allowing users to post videos up to ten minutes in length, more than doubling the original limit of three minutes. Sara Fischer, writing for Axios, broke the news of German publishing company Axel Springer investing in a new podcasting company Spooler. Working with Insider, Spooler will co-produce daily news podcast The Refresh from Insider with a special trick: Spooler’s proprietary tech will allow the hosts to add new segments to that morning’s episode as the day’s news progresses. “For news companies, the expectation is that producers could build ‘playlist programs’ that Spooler automatically stitches together to make the podcast sound seamless, even though it's being repeatedly updated. The bespoke player on Insider.com and Insider's app will allow users to skip over segments they've already heard.” Meanwhile, last week iHeartMedia announced Talk Back, an in-app feature allowing podcast-listening audiences to send voice messages to show hosts. There must be something in the Spring air as podcast companies seem to be in the mood to experiment and innovate, pushing the limits of what podcast tech can do. A social media network and an internet browser have teamed up to make ads less intrusive. Trey Titone writes for Ad Tech Explained: “When Meta and Mozilla team up to improve digital advertising, you should probably pay attention. The two companies joined forces to create Interoperable Private Attribution or IPA, a framework for attribution measurement without tracking users.” The teamup shows changing times and attitudes between the companies. Back in 2018 when Meta was still Facebook, Mozilla developed an extension for their Firefox browser with one goal: keep Facebook from watching users’ web activity outside of Facebook. Now the two are teamed up with a proposed framework that could follow pro-privacy trends formed by Google and Apple to find a way to provide useful advertising data while protecting the individual’s privacy. Titone’s breakdown of what Meta and Mozilla have proposed IPA will be, as well as what its constituent parts might actually do, is incredibly thorough. Thorough enough to necessitate a table of contents. Check it out. For more thoughts on the subject of podcast advertising and a quality-over-quantity approach, The Download recommends Brian Morrissey’s Substack newsletter piece “End of an era of ad targeting: Publishers will need closer ties to their audiences.” We should know, we covered it last week. The Download is a production of Sounds Profitable. Today's episode was hosted by Shreya Sharma and Manuela Bedoya, and the script was written by Gavin Gaddis. Bryan Barletta and Evo Terra are the executive producers of The Download from Sounds Profitable. Special thanks to Ian Powell for his audio prowess, and to our media host, Omny Studio.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Long-time friend of Advertising Week, Lisa Utzschneider, joins Great Minds this week. Now serving as CEO at Integral Ad Science, she discusses her career at some of the world's biggest technology and internet brands: from Amazon to Microsoft to Yahoo, and now at IAS.

This is The Download from Sounds Profitable, the most important business news from the world of podcasting, I'm Bryan Barletta.And I'm Evo Terra. Today, The New York Times Bets half a billion on sports, NPR doubles down on paid subscriptions, Spotify goes all-in on in-app digital ads, and I'm clearly making too many gambling references. Let's get started.NYT buys The AthleticThe New York Times has agreed to purchase the sports news company, the Athletic, for $550m. The six-year-old company, which raised $50m in 2020 at a $500m valuation, was originally in talks to sell to the New York Times last summer, but the deal fell through due to disagreements on price. With the New York Times focusing heavily on subscription content and on audio with their new app, called obviously enough "New York Times Audio", acquiring the Athletic with their 1.2m paid subscribers, which is 1/8th the total subscriptions the New York Times has, puts them on track to easily exceed their goal of 10m subscribers.Currently, the Athletic is hosted on Megaphone, part of Spotify, and participates in the Spotify Audience Network. The New York Times hosts on Simplecast, part of Adswizz, which also offers a competing monetization product. Whether we see The Athletic migrate to Simplecast or not likely depends on how integrated the two companies will be with each other.AdvertiseCast has updated their Industry Average Podcast Advertising Rates page as of January 1st, 2022. AdvertiseCast has been tracking the average CPM rates for their client podcasts since the beginning of 2020, grouping the rates charged by podcasts into three buckets—shows getting less than 10,000 downloads per month, shows getting between 10,000 and 100,000, and those seeing more than 100,000 downloads per month.And it's good news, with the average CPM of all groups at just under $24, up nearly 6% comparing December 2021 to December 2020. And the biggest shows saw an even higher increase, jumping up by more than 8% year over year.The takeaway here is clear: The actual value—not just the perceived value, but the actual value paid by advertisers on 2,412 podcasts in this sample size, is going up for podcast advertising.Reviewing the programmatic mergers and acquisitions that James Hercher of AdExchanger pointed out this week, there's a lot of trends happening in channels outside of podcasting that bode well for our industry.Hercher writes:“Historically, DSPs and SSPs have been kept separate from ad server businesses. Ad servers are the source of reconciliation data, meaning they decide whether ads were served or visible and whether advertisers should pay for an impression. Although walled gardens can often get away with bundling an ad server and grading their own homework, open programmatic companies generally could not. But SSPs need an ad server for CTV.”This need has been echoed in podcasting for quite some time. Companies like Triton Digital and Adswizz offer publishers both adserving and SSP capabilities in one package.Similarly, verification vendors like DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science, whose technology relies on client-side execution to verify ads, have each purchased contextual advertising companies to further their offering. Contextual verification is the easiest path for these vendors to enter the podcast space, enabling their clients to validate their purchased podcast inventory.Axios reports that NPR is taking another run at monetizing their podcasting efforts, working with premium podcast provider Supporting Cast to launch NPR+. The broadcaster plans to add a slate of new shows as well as subscriber-only episodes, including "podcast bundles" as incentives to listeners who become members of local NPR affiliates.Quoting from the article:"Subscription podcasting offers a new digital business model for NPR and its member stations. But its long-standing mission to inform the public limits how much content the non-profit can put behind a paywall.""NPR has been experimenting with podcasts for well over a decade, but it's pushing more aggressively to produce podcasts, particularly daily shows, that it can include in subscription efforts.""Podcast subscriptions will be used to drive revenue from loyalists who want to support their favorite shows and hosts, similar to radio memberships.""It's about the relationship that our journalists, our producers, our editors have with their audiences and their ability to create and craft new relationships," said Sarah Gilbert, vice president for news programming."The new NPR+ service is already live, with nine shows available at the time of this recording, each going for $2.99 per month.Spotify has released their take on a companion ad to accompany their streaming ad insertion offering, called CTA Cards. The unit works by providing a size-variable, banner-like ad, served only to listeners of Spotify's original and exclusive podcasts, and only to users of the Spotify mobile app.What's unique about this ad unit is its staying power. The ad—or "card"—will be visible to the listener on both the episode and show pages for seven days or until the end of the campaign, whichever is shorter. This feature isn't yet available to publishers who use Spotify Audience Network through Megaphone or Anchor, nor is it available to any publisher directly selling their inventory.Spotify is straddling the walled garden of advertising with their in-app streaming audio offering and their mainstream podcast advertising through dynamic ad insertion. But as they release more unique ad features solely to users of their mobile app, it will be interesting to see how Spotify responds to listener pushback for selling and running ads for their Spotify Premium customers who have paid for ad-free listening.And that was The Download, from Sounds Profitable! I know we went through these fast, so be sure to check out the links to every article mentioned right in your podcast listening app. And thanks for sticking with us on this grand experiment to give you the best stories you migh have missed from this week. I'm Evo Terra.I'm Bryan Barletta. Thanks for joining us. Robot?[Download complete!]See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is The Download from Sounds Profitable, the most important business news from the world of podcasting, I'm Bryan Barletta.And I'm Evo Terra. Today, The New York Times Bets half a billion on sports, NPR doubles down on paid subscriptions, Spotify goes all-in on in-app digital ads, and I'm clearly making too many gambling references. Let's get started.NYT buys The AthleticThe New York Times has agreed to purchase the sports news company, the Athletic, for $550m. The six-year-old company, which raised $50m in 2020 at a $500m valuation, was originally in talks to sell to the New York Times last summer, but the deal fell through due to disagreements on price. With the New York Times focusing heavily on subscription content and on audio with their new app, called obviously enough "New York Times Audio", acquiring the Athletic with their 1.2m paid subscribers, which is 1/8th the total subscriptions the New York Times has, puts them on track to easily exceed their goal of 10m subscribers.Currently, the Athletic is hosted on Megaphone, part of Spotify, and participates in the Spotify Audience Network. The New York Times hosts on Simplecast, part of Adswizz, which also offers a competing monetization product. Whether we see The Athletic migrate to Simplecast or not likely depends on how integrated the two companies will be with each other.AdvertiseCast has updated their Industry Average Podcast Advertising Rates page as of January 1st, 2022. AdvertiseCast has been tracking the average CPM rates for their client podcasts since the beginning of 2020, grouping the rates charged by podcasts into three buckets—shows getting less than 10,000 downloads per month, shows getting between 10,000 and 100,000, and those seeing more than 100,000 downloads per month.And it's good news, with the average CPM of all groups at just under $24, up nearly 6% comparing December 2021 to December 2020. And the biggest shows saw an even higher increase, jumping up by more than 8% year over year.The takeaway here is clear: The actual value—not just the perceived value, but the actual value paid by advertisers on 2,412 podcasts in this sample size, is going up for podcast advertising. Reviewing the programmatic mergers and acquisitions that James Hercher of AdExchanger pointed out this week, there's a lot of trends happening in channels outside of podcasting that bode well for our industry.Hercher writes:“Historically, DSPs and SSPs have been kept separate from ad server businesses. Ad servers are the source of reconciliation data, meaning they decide whether ads were served or visible and whether advertisers should pay for an impression. Although walled gardens can often get away with bundling an ad server and grading their own homework, open programmatic companies generally could not. But SSPs need an ad server for CTV.”This need has been echoed in podcasting for quite some time. Companies like Triton Digital and Adswizz offer publishers both adserving and SSP capabilities in one package.Similarly, verification vendors like DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science, whose technology relies on client-side execution to verify ads, have each purchased contextual advertising companies to further their offering. Contextual verification is the easiest path for these vendors to enter the podcast space, enabling their clients to validate their purchased podcast inventory.Axios reports that NPR is taking another run at monetizing their podcasting efforts, working with premium podcast provider Supporting Cast to launch NPR+. The broadcaster plans to add a slate of new shows as well as subscriber-only episodes, including "podcast bundles" as incentives to listeners who become members of local NPR affiliates.Quoting from the article:"Subscription podcasting offers a new digital business model for NPR and its member stations. But its long-standing mission to inform the public limits how much content the non-profit can put behind a paywall.""NPR has been experimenting with podcasts for well over a decade, but it's pushing more aggressively to produce podcasts, particularly daily shows, that it can include in subscription efforts.""Podcast subscriptions will be used to drive revenue from loyalists who want to support their favorite shows and hosts, similar to radio memberships.""It's about the relationship that our journalists, our producers, our editors have with their audiences and their ability to create and craft new relationships," said Sarah Gilbert, vice president for news programming."The new NPR+ service is already live, with nine shows available at the time of this recording, each going for $2.99 per month.Spotify has released their take on a companion ad to accompany their streaming ad insertion offering, called CTA Cards. The unit works by providing a size-variable, banner-like ad, served only to listeners of Spotify's original and exclusive podcasts, and only to users of the Spotify mobile app.What's unique about this ad unit is its staying power. The ad—or "card"—will be visible to the listener on both the episode and show pages for seven days or until the end of the campaign, whichever is shorter. This feature isn't yet available to publishers who use Spotify Audience Network through Megaphone or Anchor, nor is it available to any publisher directly selling their inventory.Spotify is straddling the walled garden of advertising with their in-app streaming audio offering and their mainstream podcast advertising through dynamic ad insertion. But as they release more unique ad features solely to users of their mobile app, it will be interesting to see how Spotify responds to listener pushback for selling and running ads for their Spotify Premium customers who have paid for ad-free listening. And that was The Download, from Sounds Profitable! I know we went through these fast, so be sure to check out the links to every article mentioned right in your podcast listening app. And thanks for sticking with us on this grand experiment to give you the best stories you migh have missed from this week. I'm Evo Terra.I'm Bryan Barletta. Thanks for joining us. Robot? [Download complete!] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is The Download from Sounds Profitable, the most important business news from the world of podcasting, I'm Bryan Barletta.And I'm Evo Terra. Today, The New York Times Bets half a billion on sports, NPR doubles down on paid subscriptions, Spotify goes all-in on in-app digital ads, and I'm clearly making too many gambling references. Let's get started.NYT buys The AthleticThe New York Times has agreed to purchase the sports news company, the Athletic, for $550m. The six-year-old company, which raised $50m in 2020 at a $500m valuation, was originally in talks to sell to the New York Times last summer, but the deal fell through due to disagreements on price. With the New York Times focusing heavily on subscription content and on audio with their new app, called obviously enough "New York Times Audio", acquiring the Athletic with their 1.2m paid subscribers, which is 1/8th the total subscriptions the New York Times has, puts them on track to easily exceed their goal of 10m subscribers.Currently, the Athletic is hosted on Megaphone, part of Spotify, and participates in the Spotify Audience Network. The New York Times hosts on Simplecast, part of Adswizz, which also offers a competing monetization product. Whether we see The Athletic migrate to Simplecast or not likely depends on how integrated the two companies will be with each other.AdvertiseCast has updated their Industry Average Podcast Advertising Rates page as of January 1st, 2022. AdvertiseCast has been tracking the average CPM rates for their client podcasts since the beginning of 2020, grouping the rates charged by podcasts into three buckets—shows getting less than 10,000 downloads per month, shows getting between 10,000 and 100,000, and those seeing more than 100,000 downloads per month.And it's good news, with the average CPM of all groups at just under $24, up nearly 6% comparing December 2021 to December 2020. And the biggest shows saw an even higher increase, jumping up by more than 8% year over year.The takeaway here is clear: The actual value—not just the perceived value, but the actual value paid by advertisers on 2,412 podcasts in this sample size, is going up for podcast advertising.Reviewing the programmatic mergers and acquisitions that James Hercher of AdExchanger pointed out this week, there's a lot of trends happening in channels outside of podcasting that bode well for our industry.Hercher writes:“Historically, DSPs and SSPs have been kept separate from ad server businesses. Ad servers are the source of reconciliation data, meaning they decide whether ads were served or visible and whether advertisers should pay for an impression. Although walled gardens can often get away with bundling an ad server and grading their own homework, open programmatic companies generally could not. But SSPs need an ad server for CTV.”This need has been echoed in podcasting for quite some time. Companies like Triton Digital and Adswizz offer publishers both adserving and SSP capabilities in one package.Similarly, verification vendors like DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science, whose technology relies on client-side execution to verify ads, have each purchased contextual advertising companies to further their offering. Contextual verification is the easiest path for these vendors to enter the podcast space, enabling their clients to validate their purchased podcast inventory.Axios reports that NPR is taking another run at monetizing their podcasting efforts, working with premium podcast provider Supporting Cast to launch NPR+. The broadcaster plans to add a slate of new shows as well as subscriber-only episodes, including "podcast bundles" as incentives to listeners who become members of local NPR affiliates.Quoting from the article:"Subscription podcasting offers a new digital business model for NPR and its member stations. But its long-standing mission to inform the public limits how much content the non-profit can put behind a paywall.""NPR has been experimenting with podcasts for well over a decade, but it's pushing more aggressively to produce podcasts, particularly daily shows, that it can include in subscription efforts.""Podcast subscriptions will be used to drive revenue from loyalists who want to support their favorite shows and hosts, similar to radio memberships.""It's about the relationship that our journalists, our producers, our editors have with their audiences and their ability to create and craft new relationships," said Sarah Gilbert, vice president for news programming."The new NPR+ service is already live, with nine shows available at the time of this recording, each going for $2.99 per month.Spotify has released their take on a companion ad to accompany their streaming ad insertion offering, called CTA Cards. The unit works by providing a size-variable, banner-like ad, served only to listeners of Spotify's original and exclusive podcasts, and only to users of the Spotify mobile app.What's unique about this ad unit is its staying power. The ad—or "card"—will be visible to the listener on both the episode and show pages for seven days or until the end of the campaign, whichever is shorter. This feature isn't yet available to publishers who use Spotify Audience Network through Megaphone or Anchor, nor is it available to any publisher directly selling their inventory.Spotify is straddling the walled garden of advertising with their in-app streaming audio offering and their mainstream podcast advertising through dynamic ad insertion. But as they release more unique ad features solely to users of their mobile app, it will be interesting to see how Spotify responds to listener pushback for selling and running ads for their Spotify Premium customers who have paid for ad-free listening.And that was The Download, from Sounds Profitable! I know we went through these fast, so be sure to check out the links to every article mentioned right in your podcast listening app. And thanks for sticking with us on this grand experiment to give you the best stories you migh have missed from this week. I'm Evo Terra.I'm Bryan Barletta. Thanks for joining us. Robot?[Download complete!]See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While APAC markets are among top-brand safe markets for desktop display, a recent report by Integral Ad Science has found Singapore posting the largest ad fraud increase on desktop display, pushing its respective optimised-against-ad-fraud levels to 3 percent. Rob Kay, Senior Director Customer Success, APAC, Integral Ad Science shares about the report, IAS’ role in the connected TV space, and how the advertising scene can combat this issue.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's pod, we deep dive Digital Turbine, a mobile ad-tech innovator specialising in targeted app installation and programmatic advertising to mobile devices. Digital Turbine invented the market for app installation and have a patent on 'single-tap' app installation to Android devices, but the business model is controversial, and the company have been accused of pushing 'bloatware'. Revenues are multiplying at triple-digit rates year over year as the company rides the wave of the 5G rollout cycle and continually increasing usage of mobile devices, but do they have what it takes to be an ad-tech winner in the long-term? Albert and Luke arrive at different conclusions by the end of this in-depth discussion. Companies mentioned in the discussion include Magnite, The Trade Desk, Integral Ad Science, and DoubleVerify. ----- If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing at https://telescopeinvesting.com/subscribe/ Or you can contact the hosts: LukeTelescope AlbertTelescope

This week's episode features Lisa Utzschneider, CEO at Integral Ad Science, a company that has been an industry leader on brand safety and fraud detection for some time now, but recently moved into CTV ad tech with the acquisition of Publica for $220 million.  Lisa joins Vincent Flood, VideoWeek's Editor-in-Chief, to discuss the acquisition, whether we're winning the war against fraud, brand safety on the social platforms, and her advice to people in the industry about how they can make a meaningful impact at their companies. 

Integral Ad Science (IAS) ensures ads are running exactly where, when, and how you want — no ifs, ands, or bots. They help protect brands and save their cusotmers from spending time and money on inappropriate content, markets, or fraudulent traffic. These insights are based on 100+ billion web transactions they process every day. Netflix, Apple TV, and consoles are becoming more popular advertising avenues than traditional linear TV. As a result, we're consuming more video than ever before, and I wanted to explore the challenges and opportunities with connected TVs and explore the latest shopping trends. I invited Tony Marlow, CMO, Integral Ad Science, to analyze these trends and understand the scale of the problem with fraud and the role that technology will play in the industry's future. Tony Marlow is the Chief Marketing Officer for Integral Ad Science, based in New York. He is an insights-driven executive and leads all aspects of corporate marketing strategy, brand development, and communications for the company.  Before joining IAS in 2019, he was the CMO for the big data company Data Axle. Before that, he was the Global Head and Vice President of B2B Marketing for Yahoo – overseeing all B2B Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Product Marketing, Sales Learning, and Sales Insights.   

CEO Lisa Utzschneider describes Integral Ad Science's brand safety efforts on TikTok and other social platforms. “It's now a strategic imperative for marketers to protect their brands,” she says. “Our customers have become much more sophisticated." 

An early pioneer in advertising, John Wanamaker once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.” In today's world of digital and programmatic advertising, content is created at a rapid and growing pace, driven in large part by the exponential growth of social media and video, adding new dimensions to trust in the marketing world. Advertisers are increasingly focused on brand reputation and they want to ensure that their ads appear in contexts that match their values, and also that they're seen by eyeballs and not algorithms! On this week's pod, we deep-dive another potential hypergrowth stock, Integral Ad Science (IAS), one of the emerging leaders in ad viewability, ad fraud, and ad safety and suitability. Founded in 2009 and IPO'd on 30 June 2021 at a valuation of $3.3B. Insider ownership is low at 1%, and a 70% controlling interest is still held post IPO by Vista Equity Partners, a US private equity investment firm who have other investments in the ad-tech space. Based on a March 2021 analysis by Frost & Sullivan, the global market opportunity for ad verification solutions is $9.5 billion (growing at a 16.2% CAGR), and the global market for ad measurement and effectiveness solutions is $6.3 billion (growing at a 20.5% CAGR). eMarketer estimates that the global non-search digital advertising market surpassed $180 billion in 2020, and will grow to over $270 billion by 2023. Marketers are increasingly aware of wasted media spend related to ad fraud (for example, when ads are served to bots or non-human traffic instead of real people) or viewability issues (for example, when ads are served but cannot be viewed by a person). Juniper Research estimates advertisers will lose approximately $100 billion in annual ad spend to ad fraud in 2024, an increase from approximately $42 billion in 2019. Powered by artificial intelligence, IAS's solutions identify non-human traffic by automatically detecting new threats and uncommon patterns, however, there is justified scepticism by experts around the effectiveness of IAS's technology, although these claims apply equally to their competitors - and to some extent, digital marketing companies have few options if they want to protect, or at least to be seen to protect, their customers' ad investment. With over 2,000 customers, IAS are one of the more dominant providers in their market. Between 2018 and 2020, their average revenue per customer for their top 100 customers has grown at a CAGR of 22%. In 2020, Twitter announced new partnership agreements with Integral Ad Science and a competitor, DoubleVerify, to provide advertisers with increased assurance around the placement of ads on a Twitter timeline, safeguarding against potential brand association with controversial content. IAS's total revenue for 2020 was $241M a modest increase of 12.7% YoY. Dollar-based net retention rate reduced from 112% to 108%, but this may be a consequence of deferred advertising spend during H1 2020 due to the pandemic. IAS are operating at the intersection of a number of trends in the ad industry: programmatic ads, connected TV, social media, ad safety, consumer privacy and the localisation of global brands. IAS is an early-stage investment opportunity with significant growth potential however, investments of this type come with significant inherent risks. The following companies are mentioned in this episode: IAS, MGNI, TTD, DV, TWTR ----- If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing at https://telescopeinvesting.com/subscribe/ Or you can contact the hosts: LukeTelescope AlbertTelescope

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Digital advertisers know that media quality isn't a given with fraud and other nonviewable impressions plaguing the market for years. Tony Marlow, CMO at measurement firm Integral Ad Science, joins eMarketer principal analyst at Insider Intelligence Nicole Perrin to discuss the company's latest media quality benchmarks, what the industry's top priorities are for the year, and how viewable video is across devices. For sponsorship opportunities contact us:   advertising@insiderintelligence.com.   For more information visit:   https://www.insiderintelligence.com/contact/advertise/ Have questions or just want to say hi? Drop us a line at podcast@emarketer.com

Thomas Promny, CEO und Gründer der d3con, spricht mit Oliver Hülse, Managing Director Zentral- und Osteuropa bei Integral Ad Science über Brand Safety & Suitability, Ad Fraud und Viewability für Brands, Agenturen und Publisher und darüber, wie Contextual Targeting den Cookie ersetzen wird.   Anmeldung zur d3con 2021 mit 50 EUR Podcast-Rabatt über den folgenden Link: https://d3con.de/r/podcast

Episode 579 Steve Raye interviews Jack Cohen Martin & Gaetano Peragine in this episode of Get US Market Ready with Italian Wine People Jack Cohen Martin: GrapeIn is a high-tech platform on a mission to democratize the wine & spirits industry, by making technology, data, and know-how available to small trade buyers and suppliers. This democratization empowers businesses to better discover each other and connect directly to gain competitive advantage. Jack Cohen Martin CEO and Co-Founder of GrapeIn, is a serial tech entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in online advertising and Internet platforms. Prior to GrapeIn, Jack worked for Integral Ad Science, a global technology, and data company, servicing large brands, including global alcoholic beverage producers, sold for over $1 billion in 2018. Gaetano Peragine: Gaetano Peragine is the Managing Director of StraItalian Winemakers. He has a BA in International Business Economics/MBA from the London Westminster Business School. His career spans over 20 years, gaining experience in different markets across the world. He has been the Head of StraItalian since its inception in 2013: In a team he helps to create, produce and export Italian Wines all over the world. Straitalian works with brand new technology with automatic quality control, low CO2 impact and maximum flexibility (bottle size and wine types ) and speed (average of 15.000 bottles per hour). High production capacity and scalability-Over 55 Millions Bottles Produced and exported in 53 countries. All production process is guaranteed by HACCP & ISO and fully compliant to Global International for Food Safety certification: B.R.C. and I.F.S. Committed to corporate social responsibility & sustainability, through several yearly projects. Find out more about Grapein and StraItalian by visiting their websites: https://grapein.net/ https://www.straitalian.com/ For more information on Steve Raye you can check out Bevology inc here www.bevologyinc.com/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

Greg Miaskiewicz is a security expert, product designer & serial entrepreneur. Previously, founded and sold a bot detection startup (Swarm) in 2016 to Integral Ad Science, then led R&D into advertising fraud at Integral, leading up to Integral’s $850mm sale to Vista in 2018. Miaskiewicz is currently CEO & Co-Founder at Capbase, a venture-backed fintech startup, and advisor at Golden and Mobius Acoustics. Capbase is a digital back-end for your startup: Incorporation, cap table management, stock issuance, corporate governance and compliance in one single platform. Today, Miaskiewicz joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast to share how to avoid pitfalls when dealing with equity, contracts and compliances. We also discuss fundraising for a startup in the middle of a pandemic and the lessons learned he from selling a startup in Silicon Valley.

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Meet: Greg Miaskiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder at Capbase, a startup building legal & financial tools for startups. Previously, CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm, a bot detection startup, which exited to Integral Ad Science in 2016. Greg has over a decade of experience working at early-stage Silicon Valley startups in product, engineering, and design roles. What you'll learn (disclaimer - this is not legal advice): Avoiding pitfalls in forming your startup's legal entity Implications of incorrectly setting up your entity What to look for in evaluating equity as apart of a job offer If you would like to reach out to Greg about anything he discussed on the podcast, please reach out to him via: https://twitter.com/miaskiewicz https://www.instagram.com/miaskiewicz/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/miaskiewicz/ email: greg@capbase.com

Blake Modersitzki is the Managing Partner at Pelion Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company has a very cool portfolio of tech companies including Cloudflare, Neighbor, Riverbed, and Owlet. Blake is a hardworking farm kid from Idaho who has been investing in early-stage tech startups since 1996. He joined Pelion in 2002 and has led investments in companies such as Redhat, Riverbed, Fusion.io, Integral Ad Science, DOMO, eCommerce, Soasta, and Metacloud. Blake is an economist and a finance expert. He has a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University. In this episode… Is your tech product disruptive enough to shake the tech industry? Many entrepreneurs go through the process of designing, creating, and innovating new products but not many make it to a pitch, few get it to actually launch, and those that actually break the market come are considered as gems: rare and utterly irresistible. The key is to find a product niche that actually serves a purpose and finding a venture capital firm who not only sees your vision but has the desire to see it come to fruition. According to Blake Moderitzki of Pelion Venture Partners, the best way to entice a VC firm into an investment is by walking through the process, embracing the company's story in the pitch, and making sure you have a product that can truly stand out in the crowd. Join Eric Stopper as he interviews Blake Modersitzki on this episode of Buy Box Experts about the companies his firm has invested in and how innovators can create disruptive software products that can wow a VC firm. They will also be discussing how to use data in the creative process of your product, the Amazon ecosystem's capacity to create disruptive products, and the value of being able to justify your pitch. Stay tuned.

Where can you get expert insight on content verification practices, the biggest industry news from the past week and a quickfire Q&A with Reach's Piers North? Look no further. In this week's episode of the podcast, we sit down with GSK's EMEA Senior Media Director Jerry Daykin and Katie Grosvenor, Head of Sales for Northern Europe at Integral Ad Science, to talk safety, suitability and how brands can get the balance right. Channelling Andrew Marr, we also chat to Campaign's Global Digital Editor Omar Oakes for our own review of the papers (and by papers, we actually mean online news). From Tesco to TikTok, what's hot this week? Plus, why all bets are off when it comes to 2020 predictions. Finally, Reach's Group Digital Director Piers North is in the coveted quickfire question seat, talking useless tech, first jobs and party tricks. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Digital advertisers are maintaining blacklists of news topics they disapprove of. Some brands have even added keywords associated with President Trump to their list, meaning publishers are effectively facing a boycott of regular news stories by advertisers. Also in the programme, the Irish government is proposing to replace the country's TV licence fee with a new "device independent broadcasting charge". Critics say any household with a smart phone or laptop would have to pay it, regardless of whether they actually watch RTÉ programmes. And Fun Kids, the digital radio station for children, has launched a podcast network. Julian Worricker is joined by Dee Forbes, Director-General of RTÉ, Laura Slattery, journalist at The Irish Times, Lee Moulding, Integral Ad Science, Shona Ghosh, Senior Tech Reporter at Business Insider, and Matt Deegan, Fun Kids station manager.

What is an ideal time for an advertisement to be exposed to an individual? In this episode we chat to Jessica Miles, Sales Director, ANZ at Integral Ad Science (an industry leader in verification and measurement) about viewability and new Australian benchmark data for “time in view” metrics. The new time data is showing strong results with viewable digital ads on desktop have an average exposure time just shy of 12 seconds and video ads having an average in view duration of 13.5 seconds. We move into the role creative plays in time metrics and how it can be used to shape strategy and investment. Viewability rates continue to increase driven by buy side demands and changes that sellers are making to meet those demands. We also talk fraud, Digital Out Of Home, Connected TV, the NZ market … basically we get an update from Jess on all things digital.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From IPO rumours to his first experiences working Down Under, to the best thing about working adland and more, Knoll shares his views on a variety of topics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.