Adelaide Expands Adelaide for Publishers with Advanced Audio Capabilities, Welcoming Major Audio Partners
Adelaide, the leader in attention-based media quality measurement, announces the expansion of Adelaide for Publishers (AFP) with new features for audio attention measurement and activation. Building on AFP’s initial launch for digital web channels, Adelaide now welcomes audio media giants like NPR, SiriusXM Media, and Westwood One as launch partners for this initiative. This enhancement of Adelaide’s publisher toolkit empowers audio media owners to improve delivery against client KPIs and monetise their high-attention offerings across podcasts, streaming audio, and terrestrial radio.
Adelaide’s AU metric helps advertisers make better media investment decisions and drive efficient business outcomes. AU is an omnichannel media quality metric that evaluates thousands of signals to predict attention and subsequent impact.
Adelaide extends its commitment to media quality transparency by offering complimentary attention audits to audio publishers as part of AFP’s free tier. AU Audits provide the foundation for AFP, while more advanced solutions enable publishers to curate inventory, deliver granular attention insights, and increase CPMs for high-quality media.
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Adelaide has proven audio to be an effective medium for capturing attention and driving outcomes. A study by Adelaide and NPR examined podcast campaign data across more than 60 shows, 75 million impressions, and over 75,000 attributed purchase conversions. The study found that shows with higher AU ratings delivered 30% higher site visitation and up to 19% greater lift in Awareness, Favourability, and Consideration than lower AU shows.
“Adelaide’s AU attention metric puts another stake through the heart of the myth that sight, sound, and motion ads are inherently superior to audio ads. With AU scores for Radio, Streaming Audio, and Podcasts above most social and digital channels and just below Linear TV, marketers can confidently utilize audio ads to get noticed, hold attention, and impact memory,” said Pierre Bouvard, Chief Insights Officer at Cumulus Media | Westwood One.
“Many brands have long understood that NPR’s audience pays great attention to the valuable information they hear on NPR as well as to the brand messaging from sponsors who support NPR,” said Gina Garrubbo, President & CEO of National Public Media, NPR’s sponsorship subsidiary. “Thanks to Adelaide’s AFP tool, we have one more valuable way to measure that attention.”
Looking ahead, AFP will add support for connected TV, linear TV, and cinema. AFP currently offers four service tiers—Free, Light, Pro, and Enterprise — each tailored to cater to the diverse needs of publishers.
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Key aspects of Adelaide for Publishers include:
Placement Ratings: Comprehensive report containing AU scores for all placements, giving publishers a deep understanding of the quality of their inventory and its market value.
Flight Control: Tools that enable publishers to identify the optimal AU targets for maximizing efficiency based on advertiser and campaign specifics.
Campaign Insights: A tagless and automated solution that generates AU insights for campaigns.
Campaign Measurement: AU measurement via tagging across client campaigns, with live dashboard access, in-flight optimisation recommendations, and analytics support.
Outcome Testing: AU measurement plus third-party validation, enabling publishers to showcase the positive impact of high-attention inventory by linking outcomes to AU scores.
Activation: High-AU private marketplaces (PMPs) are easily created within a publisher’s preferred supply-side platform (SSP) using AU audit data.
“Expanding Adelaide for Publishers to include audio environments brings us closer to a more equitable holistic media market. With esteemed partners like NPR, Westwood One, Spotify, and SiriusXM Media, we’re not just broadening the scope of AFP; we’re significantly enhancing the value of audio media experiences for buyers, sellers, and listeners,” said Marc Guldimann, CEO of Adelaide.
For more information about Adelaide’s solutions for publishers, visit adelaidemetrics.com/afp.
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Taboola Introduces Taboola Select, Empowering Large Advertisers to Drive Performance Campaigns on a Curated Set of the World’s Most Trusted Publishers
New York, NY – Taboola, a global leader in powering recommendations for the open web, today announced Taboola Select, a new offering created exclusively for large advertisers that provides access to a curated selection of Taboola’s premium editorial partnerships.
For the first time, Taboola is offering advertisers a way to leverage a highly curated subset of just 15 percent of Taboola’s most premium publishers in the U.S., to drive performance campaigns. Taboola Select offers advertisers a way to connect with millions of daily active users on premium destinations including Yahoo, Business Insider, and The Associated Press in inventory that is highly visible, brand safe and surrounded solely by trusted editorial content.
Taboola Select allows advertisers to tap into standalone placements on nearly every part of esteemed publisher sites, including homepages, in mid-article sections and in a new position called Featured Placements.
Brands that choose Taboola Select can harness the power of CPC buying and leverage Taboola’s advanced AI, including the highly effective Maximize Conversions bidding technology, which consistently reduces CPAs by 15% on average.
“Taboola is giving advertisers access to the most trusted publishers in the world, to reach consumers,” said Adam Singolda, CEO at Taboola. “Reliable and effective performance advertising has always been crucial, as these types of campaigns continue to help brands stay resilient and drive results regardless of industry headwinds. Taboola Select is one of the industry’s most unique packages for large advertisers to tap into, to run performance campaigns and to reach consumers at scale. We’re combining brand safe environments via our direct relationships with the world’s most premium publishers, with prominent ad placements that brands simply can’t get anywhere else.”
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About Taboola
Taboola powers recommendations for the open web, helping people discover things they may like.
The company’s platform, powered by artificial intelligence, is used by digital properties, including websites, devices and mobile apps, to drive monetization and user engagement. Taboola has long-term partnerships with some of the top digital properties in the world, including Yahoo, CNBC, BBC, NBC News, Business Insider, The Independent and El Mundo.
Around 18,000 advertisers use Taboola to reach nearly 600 million daily active users in a brand-safe environment. Taboola is a leader in powering e-commerce recommendations, driving more than 1 million monthly transactions, with leading brands including Walmart, Macy’s, Skechers and eBay among key customers.
Learn more at www.taboola.com and follow @taboola on Twitter.
Netflix May Monetize Its Games Platform with In-App Purchases and Ads
Renowned streaming giant Netflix is allegedly looking into new ways to make money as it prepares to add in-app purchases and adverts to its gaming platform. The business has been having constant conversations about ways to monetize its gaming platform. For the past two years, a ton of mobile games have been available for free download for Netflix subscribers.
Netflix games might introduce ads and in-app purchases
Since entering the market, Netflix has increased its presence in the gaming industry and released a significant number of games. Since players have paid for the premium membership, the game is free of charge. However, the company is looking to change its current business model. In recent months, internal discussions have been held to discuss how to proceed with this plan. Netflix has been investigating different approaches to making money off its gaming platform. These consist of choices like implementing in-app purchases, setting a price for premium games, and adding advertisements to games that are available to subscribers in the ad tier.
The company has over 75 mobile games available, including Grand Theft Auto, Love is Blind, Monument Valley, and Oxenfree. The report claims that Netflix intends to charge for premium game titles and monetize game placement. The business declared last year that it didn’t worry about in-game and advertisement payments. In the world of mobile gaming, where consumers are predicted to spend $111.4 billion on games by 2024, these strategies are widespread (and successful).
Netflix games in public tests
Netflix has also established studios in Southern California and Finland, as well as acquired several IPs and development facilities. Additionally, there are rumors that the company is working on a PC game, which may be the reason it needs to increase revenue to finance the project and make more investments in the company. It would be a significant departure from the current revenue model if it proceeded with this plan and put the aforementioned into practice. As it stated during the April 2023 earnings call that it does not want to add in-app purchases and advertisements to the games on the platform, Netflix has so far offered all of the games for free.
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Current games hosted by Netflix
There are 86 games on Netflix right now. Furthermore, there are almost 90 more in development, some of which are based on Netflix’s original series. Over the previous year, the company released about 40 games, including third-party games like Football Manager 24 Mobile, and developed titles like Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals and Netflix Stories: Love is Blind.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, which the company released last month, also brought the well-known GTA franchise to the platform. The company is creating video games based on the well-liked television program Squid Games. In this viewers will engage in competitive gameplay. Additionally, Super Evil Megacorp is developing a game based on the recently released Netflix film Rebel Moon, and a game based on Money Heist was just released.
Slow Netflix games subscriber rate
However, not many people have played the games and their adoption has been sluggish. Only 1% of subscribers played the games, according to data that was made public after the service’s first year of launch. This percentage hasn’t changed much. Even after more games have been launched, and despite Netflix Games having spent close to $1 billion, the company intends to increase revenue to succeed with these new concepts.
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Netflix’s recent password-sharing stint
According to the report, the streaming service originally opposed enforcing strict password-sharing policies and launching an ad-supported tier. For the first time in more than a decade, they lost thousands of subscribers in 2022. This led them to rethink their decision. It would make sense for Netflix to include in-game purchases and advertisements to monetize its game content. At the beginning of 2023, the company’s growth slowed, which resulted in a 3% reduction in its workforce.
Here’s what they said
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters says the company wants to provide a unique gaming experience. It will provide creators with the flexibility to make games that are only intended for player enjoyment. They will be free from the worry of other revenue streams like in-game purchases or advertisements.
We want to have a differentiated gaming experience and part of that is giving game creators the ability to think about building games purely from the perspective of player enjoyment and not having to worry about other forms of monetization, whether it be ads or in-game payment.
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Twitter Unveiled A Creator Dashboard – A Way To Manage Earnings
Microblogging site Twitter has introduced a new tool for its creators called the “Creator Dashboard“ that will analyze their revenue on the platform. According to the company, the new tool is designed to help creators analyze how they make money on Twitter and how much they are earning from monetization features – Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces. The firm said in a statement,
“Introducing the Creator Dashboard a new way to help you view your earnings & track your Super Follow subscriptions over time, for now, we are testing with some creators on iOS — can’t wait to hear what you think.”
The Creator Dashboard is available to all U.S. creators on iOS who have at least 10,000 followers and use Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces. It can be accessed through the Monetization tab of the app. Twitter’s latest monetization tool is part of its growing set of tools, which has become a stronger focus over the past year, enabling it to provide new income streams for creators and keep popular users tweeting more often.
New Additions On Twitter
Over the past year, Twitter has added:
Professional Profiles for businesses and creators, which provide more opportunities to promote your business and offerings in the app.
Profiles for Super Follows, which enables creators to choose add-on options and exclusive content for a monthly fee (up to $9.99).
Ticketed Spaces for broadcasters, with 97% of any revenue generated going back to the creator
On-profile tipping, which it recently expanded allows users to make more payment options, which will enable users in more regions to accept payments
So far, none of these elements have become a significant revenue stream for the app. It’s early days, but if Twitter can develop a self-sustaining creator ecosystem, that will fuel engagement. Twitter’s also seeking to make sure it’s competitive on this front, at least to an extent. If creators can earn a greater income from one platform or another, that will eventually be where their focus will be. The consequence of that shift will be that other platforms are relegated to the broader ‘creator economy’, which will lower their overall audience share.
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