People spend 20.5% of their media time listening to audio, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear. Yet audio gets just 3.8% of ad investment, and digital audio just 1.7%, based on WARC/eMarketer spend data. That gap set the agenda for the third annual Audio Days London, where agencies, publishers, and creators came together to...
Anyone who spent time at this year’s Programmatic I/O in New York heard far more about outcomes than impressions, and a lot about the AI agents that may soon decide which media gets a shot at delivering them. For two decades, adtech has been built to find and reach people. If agents start doing the...
Podcast advertising is scaling fast, and so is the complexity of monetizing it. If you’ve spent any time talking to publishers and networks lately, you’ve probably noticed the conversation has changed. The numbers explain why. According to the IAB, US podcast ad revenue reached $2.9 billion in 2025, up 17.6% year over year. But the...
Presenting at a conference while attending it keeps you honest. That’s what I’ve always appreciated about The Podcast Show London. Not the version in the brochure, but the real conversations. This year, three themes stood out. Podcast audiences are bigger and more valuable than most media plans give them credit for. The tools and data...
Fragmented, volatile identity signals are making it harder for audio to earn the spend and credit it deserves. Many audio impressions arrive without consistent identity. Sometimes identifiers do exist, but they aren’t shared with DSPs in a way that makes them usable. At the same time, many advertisers have not made the same investments in...
Pricing audio inventory shouldn’t feel like guesswork, but for many publishers, it still does. How much is an impression actually worth? Why does one show command a $25 CPM while another struggles to reach $8? And how much of that difference is within your control? CPM benchmarks provide a useful starting point, but they don’t...
From podcasts in the morning to streaming at the gym to connected devices at home, listening is continuous, but a lot less predictable than it used to be. What’s changed isn’t just where audio happens. It’s who’s listening and how they respond. Today’s audience spans generations, but younger, more diverse, and more global listeners are...
Check out this article by Ollie Chadwick, Regional Director, UK & Ireland at AdsWizz, on IABUK.com! Programmatic doesn’t have a growth problem. It has a complexity problem. It’s expanded well beyond display into CTV, audio, and retail media, but the old playbook hasn’t really kept up. The ecosystem is more fragmented now, and automation on...
Podcast advertising has reached a level of maturity that demands more advanced infrastructure, but some of the systems supporting it still haven’t caught up. Global podcast ad spend is forecasted to reach roughly $5.5 billion by 2026, making podcasting one of the fastest-growing advertising channels. Yet many brands still struggle to scale podcast investment because...
Monetizing audio, whether it’s podcasts, streaming, or live, increasingly runs on programmatic infrastructure, with audio supply-side platforms (SSPs) acting as the bridge between publishers and advertisers. As that shift accelerates, understanding how they work becomes essential to understanding programmatic audio monetization. What is an audio SSP? An audio SSP allows publishers to monetize their audio...