Beehiiv Eyes Podcasts, IAB CEO on Video Fragmentation, & More

0:00This is The Download from Sounds Profitable, your daily source for the essential news in the business of podcasting. I'm Gap and Gattis. Here's what you need to know for today Tuesday, March 31st. First up, Substack Rival, Beehive makes a push into podcasting. This is from Max Tanny over at SEMIFOR. Anonymous sources tell SEMIFOR, Beehive has been privately reaching out to independent podcasters on platforms like Substack to try and convince them to become founding members of Beehive's podcast program. Tanny says the program is expected to launch in the coming days with more tools planned over the coming months. More details will come later this week as this Friday's episode of POD News Weekly review will feature an interview with Beehive CEO Tyler Dink. First up, Jar Podcast Solutions launches Jar Replay, branded podcast agency Jar Podcast

1:00Solutions, launched Jar Replay, a new audience activation product. Jar Replay lets brands and publishers identify recent podcast listeners and re-engage them with premium sound on visual audio ads in brand-safe mobile environments. At its core, Jar Replay uses an anonymized listen signal captured by a tracking pixel or RSS prefix that identifies the user as a listener. Once identified, they can be served full-screen visual audio ads in premium mobile apps. The system can also reach local-like audiences mirroring the behavior of tracked listeners. Jar Podcast Solutions co-founder and CEO Roger Nairn says the dream has always been to keep branded podcast free of flow interrupting traditional advertisements. Jar Replay allows for that with ad free shows retargeting listeners after the fact. Nairn says the company provides a service for, quote, a simple $12 CPM including ad production and, quote.

2:01And for a final top story, IEB says fragmentation is now the largest barrier to video ad growth. Inside audio marketing has coverage of the interactive advertising bureau CEO David Cohen's presentation at New Front's last Wednesday. Cohen described how streaming, social video, creator content and connected TV have merged erasing boundaries on video planning and purchasing. Consumers can see all video as video, but the ad marketplace remains fragmented. The IEB solution to that fragmentation is standardization. Cohen says this year the IEB will be working on bringing, quote, clarity, consistency and confidence in, quote, by driving stronger definitions and frameworks for streaming, connected TV, retail media and creator driven content. As for the rest of the news, backyard ventures has announced a partnership with between the lines to grow their video series developed by former NBA champion Danny Green into a full scale podcast and simulcast property net influencer covers the launch of Triton

3:03Digital's podcast metrics industry feature set a set of analytics tools that give publishers industry level benchmarks. The media leader covers an advertising week year presentation by Spotify global brand strategy lead, thought leadership, Jenny Haggard on new ad formats and tools in Spotify ads manager transistor CEO and co founder Justin Jackson has a new video addressing the narrative podcasting was intended to be audio only from the beginning, including footage of Steve Jobs demonstrating early video podcasts on stage in 2005. And finally, content creators are getting their own version of the Cleo Awards in the form of Cleo creators launched in partnership with YouTube and creator marketing firm influential. You can find links to everything I just talked about by clicking the link in your show notes which will take you to today's episode post on sounds profitable.com where you can also subscribe to get the newsletter version of the download sent to you every day.

4:04This episode was written and produced by myself Molly DeMillier, Brian Barletta, and Tom Webster. For Sounds Profitable, I'm Gavin Gattis and I'll see you tomorrow.