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How is programmatic advertising shaping the growth of the digital audio ad market, and how should advertisers spending in terrestrial radio think about balancing their spend between terrestrial and digital audio channels?

This week, new advertisers enter the podcast space, consumers discourage brand desperation, and brands take notes from Netflix.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we discuss how Mint Mobile was able to stand out before a celebrity like Ryan Reynolds joined the team, how he helped them break the marketing mold, and lessons learned along the way to becoming a billion-dollar valued company. Tune in to the conversation with Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, our Senior Director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman, Vice President Suzy Davidkhanian, and Strategic Advisor to Mint Mobile Aron North. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

YouTube strives to make ads less disruptive: The platform is changing its approach to mid-roll ads to appease viewers, creators, and brands alike.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we discuss what malls are doing well (and why), the reasons folks have been skipping the mall, and why IKEA and Walmart bought one each. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Analysts Emmy Liederman and Rachel Wolff.

To justify its higher-cost tier, YouTube needs to offer benefits beyond ad-free music videos, such as more robust offline capabilities, more multiple-device streaming support, or access to exclusive shows.

[NEW_PARAGRAPH]Now sub-OTT streaming, the general category that Netflix is in, is one of the categories that is still doing well. I mentioned before that a lot of big categories are stagnant or declining. Streaming services, they're still going up, but Netflix not really. It went down by not much, like a percent and a half last year, lost a couple minute or two among users this year.

On today鈥檚 podcast episode, we discuss how some teachers think young people should be approaching GenAI, the differences between younger and older teenagers鈥� social media usage, and how engagement with digital gaming is changing. Tune in to the episode with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Analyst Paola Flores-Marquez, and Vice President of Research Jennifer Pearson. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

"Nobody knows what's going to happen and when," said our analyst Rachel Wolff on a recent 鈥淏ehind the Numbers鈥� podcast, about the potential impact of tariffs. "Everybody's just waiting until the last possible minute to figure out, will these actually go into effect?" Retailers are bracing for disruptions as President Donald Trump鈥檚 on-again, off-again tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, China, and the EU loom.

At $30 per minute, Veo 2 targets high-end business users, testing demand for costly AI-generated content.