In an initiative to streamline the market for digital audio advertising, Triton Digital is introducing a new platform for audio publishers, called Yield-Op, which the company says is built from the ground up for audio. Optimization, cutomization, and reach are three values Triton is evangelizing with the new software. Continue Reading
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a dense, highly-informed and descriptive whitepaper about programmatic advertising — which also suggests abandoning the term “programmatic” and replacing it with “automation.” There is also a great infographic. Continue Reading
One day after Cumulus-owned Westwood One announced it was bringing Cumulus radio station commercial inventory into the programmatic era via Katz Expressway, Katz unleashed another press announcement outlining the scope of its programmatic radio market. Continue Reading
Jovem Pan, the largest radio network in Brazil with 142 stations, has allied with Audio.ad, the audio advertising company serving Hispanic market in the Americas, to put its digital audio inventory in Audio.Ad’s automated platform. The partnership gives Jovem Pan advertisers access to Tail.digital, an audience data and segmenting platform. Continue Reading
Varick Media sent an announcement today that it has expanded its relationship with Triton Digital, using Triton’s a2x programmatic marketplace in Canada. Continue Reading
iHeartMedia has unveiled SmartAudio, a digital data advertising product for broadcast radio. As part of building out its programmatic backbone, tools like SmartAudio will allow advertisers to better target their efforts to reach listeners. SmartAudio also takes advantage of the current surge in dynamic ad creative. Continue Reading
Powered by a belief that digital audio advertising is the most most powerful and effective marketing medium, San Francisco-based ad-tech company Instreamatic today launched a platform for digital audio publishers to expose their inventory to national media buyers. Continue Reading
This morning Triton Digital is announcing a significant growth of its relationship with SoundCloud. SoundCloud, the giant global listening platform based in Berlin, has chosen Triton’s a2x programmatic audio platform for its U.S. inventory. The deal expands the tie-up of these two companies from earlier agreements in Australia and Canada. Continue Reading
Zenith Media shared some results from its 2017 edition of Programmatic Marketing Forecasts. Programmatic already dominates digital display buying, and will to an even greater degree in 2017. Traditional media, including radio, are slower to adopt data-driven buying, but the report says they will. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has entered a deal with Western Media Group that will expand its business in Canada. Under this arrangement, Western will exclusively operate Triton’s a2x programmatic audio advertising exchange in Canada. Continue Reading
Audio ad sales company AdLarge and media software company Marketron have announced an alliance to develop a new programmatic platform for radio. The platform will leverage Marketron’s Mediascape marketplace, and promises to deliver key values of programmatic advertising. Continue Reading
The percentage of media buying strategy dedicated to digital audio will grow from 7.5% today to 14.8% in two years, nearly a doubling of commitment to digital audio. That is the headline result of a newly released survey collaboration produced by AdAge and The Trade Desk. Continue Reading