The digital audio market continues to show steady growth, with ad spending predicted to hit $5.87 billion this year, an increase of 20% yearly and a nearly 90% jump since 2021. Advertisers aren’t the only ones flocking to audio, though. The dollars they bring with them can draw the attention of bots from both bad...
Author: Maria Breza
Maria spearheads SXM Media's strategic brand safety, ad verification, and tech integration, ensuring the identity and audience targeting technologies supporting SXM Media and AdsWizz platforms are seamlessly integrated and scaled. Before her roles at SXM Media and AdsWizz, Maria was the global head of digital revenue operations at Bloomberg Media. She was responsible for inventory, pricing, media planning, ad technology, and ad trafficking for the mobile and web business teams and the business development effort on Bloomberg.com and BusinessWeek.com.
Navigating Identity and Privacy Concerns in Audio Advertising
Digital advertising faces an identity crisis due to evolving consumer preferences and privacy regulations, audio advertising included. Today’s marketers will need to balance effective targeting, personalization, and measurement with consumer privacy choices and changing legislation and platform policies. The industry is seeing third-party data and deterministic identity-based targeting face the most challenges amidst growing privacy...