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Why to SmartServe a Campaign Through Podscribe

SmartServing a campaign through Podscribe unlocks a greater level of control, and precision over how impressions are served, to maximize performance.

Buyers can use their impressions from other campaigns and their 1st party data to manage frequency and target in ways never before possible. You can:

 
Ability
Examples
Manage frequency, using impressions from other campaigns
- Serve ads to only new listeners who have not yet received an ad in another campaign - Serve up to 2 ads per listener globally, so if they received 1 ad from another campaign, they’ll only get 1 ad on this campaign.
Exclude customers from targeting
Avoid sending impressions to listeners who already purchased
Re-target site visitors who did not yet convert
Target listeners who visited the brand’s website in the past 3 months but have not yet purchased
Control creative delivery
- AB test creatives, randomly dividing audiences into each group - sequentially message listeners with creative A first, then B - serve different ads to different users based on geo
Target by geo
Target only listeners in certain countries, states, cities, DMAs or zips, or block specific geos.
Target by show
Select only certain shows in a RON buy to serve impressions to. Or, block certain shows.
Target by app, device, & device type
Serve impressions to only Spotify iPhone users, or only Apple devices
Target by episode & content age
Target only certain episodes, or say just episodes published in the past week.
Target by day of week, and time of day
Select which days of the week or time of day to send ads on, eg only weekdays 5 am - 8pm ET.
Create a randomized holdout group for lift testing
Randomly hold out 10% of the audience to be compared against the exposed group for a conversion lift test. This does NOT require sending them actual ads, as Podscribe just marks the IPs as in the control group.

Got another use case not listed? We’d love to talk! Please email adops@podscribe.com to discuss.

 

How is this different from programmatic bought through a DSP?

Serving ads through Podscribe unlocks the same control one can get through a DSP, but with several clear advantages:

  1. This can be done for any direct buy (assuming the publisher accepts VAST tags, as almost all do), so any existing direct buys can take advantage of this precision.
  1. This targeting is configurable within the measurement dashboard, to make it simple to adjust targeting based on measurement to maximize performance.
  1. More Data Available: a) Unlike DSPs, Podscribe tracks impressions served for the advertiser across all publishers. This allows for global frequency capping, to serve ads to only new listeners who haven’t heard an ad on any other campaign, for example. b) Podscribe likely already ingests site purchase data from the advertiser, to allow for targeting that excludes prior customers, or retargets site visitors, all without needing to place another tag on the site.
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