Turn the moments your audience spends listening into a performance marketing channel and connect your marketing spend to quantifiable results with our fully managed programmatic audio advertising services.
Programmatic audio advertising, also called digital audio or streaming audio advertising, refers to ads that play inside the audio content people choose for themselves, from music streaming and podcasts to digital radio and live sports. Because programmatic audio leverages digital audience data and programmatic ad placements, you're able to precisely choose the audience you want to reach and accurately track how your campaign performs.
Programmatic audio advertising works best as part of a broader digital marketing strategy spanning multiple digital channels, including display,online video,in-game, and more.
What Is Programmatic Audio Advertising?
Activate your Audience Across 350+ Audio Apps and Publishers.
Reach Buyers in Screen-Free Moments
Audio arrives during a commute or a workout, when your audience is fully tuned in.
Ads That Play Start to Finish
Audio ads run in environments built to play them all the way through, so your audience hears the full message.
Measure Audio Performance in One Place
Programmatic audio reports into the same dashboard as the rest of your campaign, so you can see how a listen turned into a store visit or a purchase.
Our Full-Funnel Approach Drives a 200%+ Increase in Conversions
Where Your Audio Ads Run
Music Streaming
Podcasts
Digital Radio
Live Sports Audio
Audio Targeting Tactics
What Do Our Programmatic Audio Advertising Services Include?
We take care of everything that goes into programmatic audio advertising, eliminating the burden on your team.
Omnichannel Digital Media Strategy
We create a full-funnel digital media strategy that follows your audience and captures their attention when they’re ready to buy.
Precise Targeting
We use hyper-specific campaign parameters to put your ads in front of the buyers most likely to become customers.
Custom Attribution that Proves ROI
We build one powerful dashboard that brings together every digital channel and tracks the metrics that matter most to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is programmatic audio advertising?
Programmatic audio advertising refers to ads that play inside streaming music, podcasts, digital radio, and live sports audio, bought through the same digital systems as any other programmatic channel. That means the audience is chosen from data rather than guessed at, and the campaign is measured against business outcomes rather than estimated reach.
How is programmatic audio advertising targeted?
Audio campaigns are targeted by location and by audience attributes like demographics and buying behavior. They can also be matched to the content itself, so a campaign runs against specific genres or show categories, and narrowed by the device someone is listening on.
How does programmatic audio fit into a full-funnel media strategy?
Does Strategus run media channels beyond programmatic audio?
Yes. Strategus manages full programmatic campaigns across connected TV, over-the-top, online video, display, streaming audio, digital out-of-home, and in-game placements. Most clients run several of these channels together as one coordinated plan.
What audio platforms are programmatic?
Most major ad-supported audio services are available programmatically, including music streaming platforms like Spotify and Pandora, podcast networks, digital radio from broadcasters like iHeart and Audacy, and live sports audio.
The exception is paid ad-free subscription tiers, where there are no ads to place. Your strategist confirms which platforms reach your audience before the campaign is built.
How do you keep listeners from hearing the same ad too many times?
Frequency caps limit how often one listener hears your ad, and because Strategus manages audio alongside your other channels, that limit accounts for the ads the same person is receiving elsewhere.

