#programmatic-buying

#programmatic-buying

For decades, 'primetime' has been a familiar concept to advertisers: the moment when audiences gather, attention peaks, and impact follows. Yet in digital out-of-home (DOOH), the idea of prime time is still a new and unexplored concept. Traditional DOOH planning relied on fixed schedules and average audience estimates, assuming exposure was relatively constant. But the real world doesn't work like that. People move in rhythms, not averages.

"Despite strong growth in podcast listenership, many marketers still see the channel as complex and hard to understand," Acast asserts. "Ads Academy aims to remove that friction by providing structured, flexible training that covers everything from ad formats and creative to targeting, programmatic buying, and measurement." The curriculum provides two on-demand courses, free of charge, designed to build the knowledge and skills which help plan and implement a podcast advertising campaign.

The Trade Desk has emerged as a leading buy-side digital advertising platform, using data-driven strategies to improve ad efficacy and programmatic buying.

The advertising industry continues to buy connected TV the wrong way, transferring one-to-one programmatic logic from display and online video into a household screen.