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Host-read ads get their own detective tools

Listen · September 27 2022 · Updated Jan 9, 2023 · 2.4 minutes to read

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First look: Ad tech company Gumball has just announced Gumshoe, a real-time tool to measure ad impressions from host-read podcast ads. The solution includes audience demographics, brand category exclusivity and a booking tool.
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Podcast hosting and monetisation company Acast has launched a new post-roll ad format in France, dubbed “co-branded stories”. The format consists of two-to-three minutes of bonus content carried immediately after a podcast episode.
After he was “fired” from the BBC’s Feedback programme, Roger Bolton is to present his own podcast, Beeb Watch. Bolton, aged 76, presented his last programme on Aug 29.
Adthos has added more than 75 new data API points that allow dynamic ads to be produced based on data from sport, stocks or news.
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