The industry is seeing third-party data and deterministic identity-based targeting face the most challenges amidst growing privacy regulations. The most successful solutions include increased contextual data and more probabilistic identity matching.

Balancing privacy concerns and delivering relevant audio ads is crucial in this shifting landscape. According to Comscore’s State of Programmatic study, around 47% of marketers plan to adopt ID-free tactics by the end of 2023. 44% of ad spend is projected for third-party ID-based targeting, while 25% is dedicated to audience targeting using first-party data. Additionally, 32% of the budget is allocated to ID-less contextual segments.

The audio advertising industry is at a crossroads, grappling with evolving consumer preferences, privacy regulations, and technological advancements. Marketers will need strategies that balance privacy considerations, exercise a continuous understanding of industry trends, and test new solutions to adapt to the evolving audio advertising landscape to position themselves for success in the dynamic world of audio advertising.

Embrace a Privacy-First Mindset and Transparency

Embracing a first-party mindset is prioritizing direct relationships with users and leveraging first-party data to deliver personalized and relevant ad experiences. This approach lets advertisers build trust, enhance targeting capabilities, and create meaningful connections with their audiences.

It involves building rich experiences with consumers where true value exchange is in place for access to consumer information and partnering with publishers to utilize data collected directly from users, such as preferences, behaviors, and interactions, to deliver tailored ad messages that resonate. 

A shift towards a first-party perspective helps advertisers to have greater control over data privacy and compliance while maximizing the effectiveness of their audio advertising campaigns. These first-party data sets are invaluable for deterministic matching.

Still, they will also be the building blocks for more probabilistic methodologies, which will use additional signals like context to expand their reach. With these continuing evolutions, staying informed on current (and upcoming) laws and regulations governing audio advertising is vital. Marketers and brands undoubtedly benefit when they comprehensively understand data privacy regulations in their jurisdiction and wherever their target audience might be.

Educate and communicate with your audience to build trust. A little goes a long way.

Transparency is crucial in building trust with consumers. Brands must communicate to their audience how their audio advertising campaigns collect, use, and protect their data by implementing a robust consent management framework that lets users quickly understand and control their data-sharing preferences.

Collaborate With Trusted Publishers and Platforms

First-party data has always been audio’s secret weapon. Streaming audio has created sticky user experiences, where many consumers continue to be open to sharing identity information in exchange for a great user experience, and podcasting is breaking through with audience targeting options rooted in powerful contextual signals.  

As a best practice, prioritize user privacy and data protection by aligning with privacy-first platforms and leveraging technology and tools that enable you to follow strict privacy protocols, employing measures like differential privacy, encryption, and secure data storage.

There’s strength in numbers, figuratively and literally, and pooling different resources can accelerate power.

Harness First-Party Data With Comscore Predictive Audiences Targeting

Access to audience data is crucial for the success of digital marketing campaigns. With privacy regulations and industry shifts rendering cookies and traditional mobile ad IDs less dependable, brands and businesses must explore alternative and superior data sources to target their audience effectively. Time is of the essence in this pursuit.

With cookie-free targeting and AdsWizz’s AI Transcription Technology, Predictive Audiences, developed in collaboration with Comscore, ensures a reliable pathway to contextually relevant podcast advertising. Advertisers and publishers can precisely target their desired audiences by selecting segments based on TV viewership, OTT consumption, and consumer behaviors.

Integrating Predictive Audiences with the AdsWizz platform enhances engagement and campaign performance by delivering ads on episodes that align with the target audience’s interests. With Comscore Predictive Audiences and AdsWizz’s advanced technology, connecting with desired audiences in the podcasting landscape becomes more precise and effective.

The Short Replay

In the ever-evolving landscape of audio advertising, proactively addressing the challenges surrounding identity and privacy is crucial. A privacy-focused approach and prioritizing first-party strategies are essential to successfully navigating these issues. By emphasizing transparency and effectively communicating how data gets utilized, brands can establish trust with their audience and create impactful audio advertising experiences. Safeguarding user privacy is ethically imperative and vital for ensuring long-term business success in today’s privacy-conscious world.

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By Maria Breza

Vice President, Audience Data Operations & Ad Quality Measurement at SXM Media and AdsWizz

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Vice President, Customer Success at AdsWizz

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For audio advertisers, brand safety consists of strategies in streaming audio and podcasts that protect brands from toxic environments when advertising, saving their integrity and reputation. It works just like a guide that assures a brand’s ad reaches its destination at the right time. Brand Safety ensures that advertisers can attain more control, optimize their investments, and achieve more trust with audiences.

Brand Safety Tactics for Advertisers

Block Malicious Threats

Blocklisting capabilities easily thwart fraudulent domains, malicious IPs, and user agents on audio and second-screen retargeting. By incorporating a variety of security partners, brands can block less desirable domains to counter the latest fraudulent threats. 

Secure Audio Ads

When setting up new campaigns, brands can enable specific parameters to fend off harmful or unsuitable content. For example, building a tailored audio segment for each campaign and targeting away from particular genres, types of publishers, language, or inventory.

Fine-Tune the Advertising Journey

Brands can activate brand suitability protections that offer greater precision to determine what content is safe and contextually relevant. For instance, hate speech segments can be tweaked based on risk tolerance. High-risk averts actual acts of hate speech, while low-risk avoids educational content on the matter.

Build a Safety Map

To help get more scale and make it easier to find brand-safe, appropriate content, brands can utilize AI Transcription Technology to transcribe and categorize podcast episodes. This tool verifies all podcast content with Comscore to extract the contextual essence of each podcast – down to episode level – providing a unique pattern profile that is more accurate than simply identifying the overall topic of the episode.

Access Brand-Safe Premium Inventory

Brands can access technology that employs an inventory qualification process to select from a large pool of premium streaming and podcast publishers. For example, AdsWizz’s supply experts qualify each publisher and perform advanced automated checks and technical verification on privacy and addressability. Certification facilitates monitoring of publishers and AudioMatic (AdWizz’s digital audio demand-side platform) campaign health.

In Closing

Creating a unified, holistic approach to audio brand safety by leveraging the right technology solutions is essential to ensuring advertising messages are in the right places, contextually relevant, and up to the highest standards of excellence. Brands are responsible for building consumer trust and need to undergo these measures to secure their ad alignment with content that does right by consumer sentiment. These steps will allow brands safe harbor without compromising their reach and frequency goals.

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by Daniel Einhorn, Senior Manager, Content Marketing

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Check out this byline by Garrison Dua, VP of Demand, North America!

Brand marketers and advertisers are seeing tremendous growth in podcasts globally and want to scale their investments, but they are increasingly concerned their messages could become associated with programs and content not aligned with their brands.

Today’s advertisers are operating in a market with more opportunities than ever to amplify their brand, but they also have greater expectations of certain guarantees, such as brand safety, for their coveted ad spend.

You can understand why when you look at the size of the podcast advertising market: eMarketer predicts that US marketers will spend nearly $3 billion on podcast advertising by 2026, accounting for a third of all digital audio services ad spending.

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AdsWizz has two exciting upcoming opportunities – to secure speaking panels at SXSW 2023 and a nomination for AdWeek's Reader's Choice "Best in Tech" Partner Awards. Cast a vote for your favorite Audio Advertising Technology provider, and help AdsWizz make waves.

 

About SXSW 2023

SXSW is one of the largest leading conferences in the tech, film, and music industries, attracting global professionals from around the globe to discover, learn, and network. This presents an exciting opportunity for AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SXM Media to stand front and center among a highly relevant and engaged audience. We submitted multiple panels for consideration, and winning panels will be based on the number of upvotes on SXSW’s PanelPicker platform. You can easily vote right now by clicking the links at lnk.bio/adswizz and casting your vote. Don’t forget to vote on SXM Media’s panels as well using their links which can be found here.

 

About AdWeek's Reader's Choice "Best in Tech" Partner Awards

AdsWizz has been nominated for AdWeek’s Reader’s Choice “Best in Tech” Partner Awards. AdsWizz has historically been recognized by leading publications in the industry, but this would be our first from AdWeek. The award serves to recognize the top advertising and marketing technology providers in the industry – a well-aligned award for AdsWizz. You can cast your vote on AdWeek’s website by signing up for free, and the great thing is, you can vote multiple times as long as your votes are 24 hours apart.

 

Chip in and cast your vote for AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SXM Media!

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