This document provides a guide to programmatic radio and digital advertising terms. It explains the programmatic buying cycle, gives statistics on digital audio reach and time spent on audio apps, and outlines the benefits of programmatic radio such as finely targeted audiences and ability to track interactions. The guide also decodes common digital advertising acronyms and terms to demystify concepts such as behavioral targeting, click-through rate, cost per conversion, and view-through conversion.

1. From the Digital Experts: An essential bite-size guide to the
acronyms and underpinning of modern digital advertising.
PROGRAMMATIC RADIO
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2. 3 Demystify
4 We demystify digital
5 The Programmatic Cycle
6 Digital audio weekly reach
7 Why invest in Programmatic
Radio?
8 Buy radio Programmatically
9 Finely tuned audiences
10 19% of all app time
11 Target millennials
12 The benefits of programmatic
radio
13 The stats
14 Demystify Digital: Decoding
the terms
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3. DEMYSTIFY
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series and focuses on
Programmatic Radio.

4. Pioneering Programmatic
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Crunch Simply Digital exists to
make their clientʼs business
flourish through digital media.
Crunch specifically deals with
online advertising, and
specialise in programmatic
media buying.

5. Billions of media
buying decisions made
in milliseconds drive
unparalleled efficiencies
from your budget.
1. Crunch inputs the
targeting profiles
2. We move on to
scanning the entire
market place
3. Our Digital
Consultantʼs identify
target content or
users
THE PROGRAMMATIC CYCLE
4. We then bid against
competitors for the
space
5. Once we have bought
the space we can
serve the ad
6. Our in-house experts
then analyse the
response
7. And make
adjustments to refine
the targeting profiles
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SIMPLIFYING
PROGRAMMATIC
Input targeting profiles
Scan
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entiremarket
Identifytargetc
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Bid
againstcompetitors
Serve the ad
Analyse response
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“BY THE TIME
YOUʼVE PICKED UP
YOUR PHONE TO A
MEDIA REP - TOO
LATE, THE AUDIENCE
HAS SHIFTED”
- CRUNCH
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Thatʼs 40% of the population
DIGITAL AUDIO
WEEKLY REACH
21.9
MILLION

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Appear on the biggest/most
influential audio platforms
Advertise to the most relevant
audience
Interact with people in a way
traditional broadcasting cannot
Track successes and
interactions in real time
Take the broad out of
broadcasting
Top 5 reasons
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WHY INVEST IN
PROGRAMMATIC
RADIO?

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How will programmatic radio
benefit your campaign?
With programmatic radio, we are
able to target users much more
granularly. You can choose:
When your ad will be served
Where your ad is served
Which listeners to target
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BUY RADIO
PROGRAMMATICALLY

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Radio has boomed. It has
reverberated across the digital
landscape by keeping audiences
finely tuned.
79% of audio consumption takes
place when people are engaged in
other activities, where visual media
cannot reach them.
FINELY TUNED
AUDIENCES

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Only when a user listens to 95% of
the advert will they then be
counted as an impression.
Digital audio is becoming bigger
than ever, with audio apps now
accounting for 19% of all app time.
THE 95% RULE

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Traditional broadcasting methods
can sometimes be ineffective when
trying to reach millennials.
75% of millennials listen to more
music than baby boomers. That
places radio as a valid channel to
advertise to millennials.
TARGET
MILLENNIALS

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THE BENEFITS OF
PROGRAMMATIC RADIO
Easily target millennials
Highly influential
Logged in users provide valuable
data
Take advantage of cross platform
advertising
Target through geo-location and
day parting
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THE STATS
of the adult population listen to
online audio streaming weekly
Listen to radio via a digital platform of 15-24 year old social media users
receive updates about their favourite
radio station
Average number of hours people
listen to online radio weekly
90%
42%6 in 10
Adults
1.049
Billion

14. Every trade and
profession has a
language of its own.
Whether you call them
power words, marketing
spiel or buzzwords,
the whole meaning is
long-winded and often
confusing.
When it comes to
digital, often you need
to decode the terms to
understand the data grit.
Term
Ad Rank A value thatʼs based on a combination of your bid amount,
Quality Score and the expected impact from your ad
extensions. Your Ad Rank determines your ad position
Behavioural
Targeting past browsing behaviours
Clicks The amount of times your ad is clicked on
Contextual
Targeting
Information on the contents of the webpage that a user
is viewing upon ad call, usually used for ad targeting. For
example, if the user is viewing a newspaper article about
travel, an airline may wish to display on that page
Conversions A conversion is when someone applies for something or
Conversion Pixel
ad, registering, making a purchase, or completing another
action. Advertisers can place conversion pixels on a landing
page, registration page, checkout pages, or elsewhere to
track conversions
Conversion Rate Conversion rate tells you how often, on average, an
interaction leads to a conversion. This is calculated by:
Total conversions/total clicks or interactions
Converted Clicks The total amount of converted clicks
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15. Cookie
browser and then sent back unchanged by the client each
time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for
authenticating, session tracking, and storing information
habits. Advertisers often use cookies to track the number
and frequency of advertisements that have been shown.
Cost Per
Conversion
The average cost per conversion is how much you have
paid on average per conversion. IT is calculated by: Cost/
total conversions
CPA Cost per action/acquisition. A payment model in which
advertisers pay for every action, such as a sale or
registration, completed as a result of a visitor clicking on
their advertisement. Note that an “acquisition” is the same
as a “conversion”
CPC Cost Per Click is the average amount that a clicks costs.
This is calculated by: Total Cost/Clicks
CPM Cost Per 1000 Impressions is the average amount you have
been charged for 1,000 impressions
Creative The actual graphical advertisement itself. Common creative
formats include GIF, JPEG, JavaScript, HTML, and Flash
CTR Click Through Rate is the rate at which your ad is clicked
as a percentage. This is calculated by: Clicks/impressions
Frequency The act of limiting, or “capping” how often a particular
creative can be served to a user. For example, an advertiser
might use frequency capping to ensure that an ad could be
shown to the same user no more than three times per 24
hours
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Google Display
Network
Includes a collection of sites that partner with Google, and
Google sites such as YouTube and Gmail
Google Search
Network
Includes a collection of sites that display Google search
results including Google Search, Images, Maps, Shopping,
Groups, and sites that partner with Google as search
partners
Impressions The amount of times your ad is seen
In-banner Video In-banner video is a type of creative played in a standard
banner rather than in a video player. Any banner placement
may accommodate an in-banner video creative, if allowed
by the publisher
In-stream Video In-stream video is a type of creative played in video players
on Web pages. This creative type uses VAST XML to
ensure proper rendering in players and are shown before,
in the middle of, or after other video content
Interactive
Advertising Bureau
(IAB)
An online ad industry association focused on the growth of
the interactive advertising marketplace whose stated goal is
to educate “marketers, agencies, media companies and the
wider business community about the value of interactive
advertising”. Read more at the IABʼs website
Programmatic
Buying
Buying through automated means, for example, by setting
up a campaign in a real time bidding exchange or other
automated system
Reach The number of unique user IDs that can be reached by
online advertising
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Retargeting Targeting users who have performed an action in the past,
who may therefore be more likely to perform the same
or a similar task in the future. For example, an advertiser
might wish to put a segment pixel on their website and
then target users who have visited the website in the past
because they are more likely to make a purchase
Rich Media Rich media refers generally to media that has non-standard
characteristics such as: Larger than ~40k, out-of-banner
(OOB) behaviour, features like “post to Facebook,” plays
video within a banner, or in-creative metrics collection.
Expandable creatives are examples of rich media creatives
ROI
when money is invested. ROI can also be an idiom for
ad trading and business in general
A/B Split Testing A method used to determine the best ad. By showing
multiple ads over a course of time, split testing helps
determine which combination of ad headlines, ad text,
View Through
Conversion
A View through conversion is when someone has seen your
ad but then converted via an alternative route. For example,
someone sees your ad on the display network but then
decides to search for the product or service on the search
network
UTM Tags A UTM code is a simple code that you can attach to a
custom URL in order to track a source, medium, and
campaign name. This enables Google Analytics to tell you
where searchers came from as well as what campaign
directed them to you
Open Rate The rate in which email ads are opened. This is calculated
by: emails delivered/opens
Bounce Rate The percentage of visitors to a particular website who
navigate away from the site after viewing only one page
Dwell Time Dwell time is the actual length of time that a visitor spends
on a page before returning to the search engine results
page
Google Analytics Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service
Ad Serving Ad serving describes the technology and service that places
advertisements on web sites
Conversion Rate
Optimisation
Conversion rate optimisation is a system for increasing
the percentage of visitors to a website that convert into
customers, or more generally, take any desired action on a
webpage
Optimisation The process in which campaigns are adjusted to help them
perform better
Multivariate
Testing
Multivariate testing is a technique for testing a hypothesis
multivariate testing is to determine which combination
of variations performs the best out of all of the possible
combinations
Control The original page in an A/B split test or multi-variant test
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17. From the Digital Experts: An essential bite-size guide to the
acronyms and underpinning of modern digital advertising.
P O W E R E D B Y
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