The IAB Australia Podcast

Index Exchange started as a small self-funded tech company in Canada and now has 12 offices across seven countries. IAB CEO Gai Le Roy talks to Adele Wieser, Regional Managing Director, APAC and Alex Gardner, Chief Revenue Officer at Index Exchange about the difference in international markets and the advantages and disadvantages of growing up outside Silicon Valley. We dig deep into trust, specifically what the future of digital advertising might hold when it comes to consent, data and a world sans third-party cookies.

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In the latest podcast IAB CEO Gai Le Roy talks to Suzie Cardwell, General Manager, Data Solutions at News Corp, about data, how it’s segmented to connect the right audiences and advertisers and how it comes to be valued. And of course, if you’re talking data today, you need to talk privacy and consent and the changes approaching with the death of the cookie. We dig into it all.

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Soft or hard metrics? Do more metrics translate into business success? What dictates the metrics you use to measure your spend? In this episode we chat with Dr. Ofer Mintz, a senior lecturer at UTS Business School who has dedicated a good deal of his professional life to understanding the economics and metrics of digital marketing. We discuss marketing metrics around the world, the organisational drivers behind those metrics and how cultural differences play into it. We also delve into his thoughts on what educational institutions are doing to prepare students for careers in marketing, among other things.

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We recently received a visit from Sonia Carreno, President of IAB Canada, and it was too good of a podcast opportunity to pass up. Sonia is a trove of digital knowledge, and we get into data and privacy as it relates to consumers and what the industry can do to improve and relate the value exchange in digital experiences, transparency, the supply chain and the differences and similarities in the Australian and Canadian ad markets and the digital talent pool.

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In our latest episode we dive into the rebirth of audio and audio advertising with Chris Blackburn, Global Head of Partnerships at SoundCloud, and Jonathan Mandel, Head of Digital Commercial at Southern Cross Austereo. These audio experts discuss how to achieve reach, frequency and engagement, the role of voice and smart speakers, and the variety of different formats for marketers – both now and in the near future. They also talk about clarifying the terminology and processes that are involved in audio (included in the IAB’s Audio Buyer’s our Audio Council produced for clients and agencies). This is a must-listen for anyone involved in (or looking to get involved in) digital audio advertising.

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The more light we shine on supply chains, the less fraud there will be. But can we ever eliminate fraud? We talk to Eric Bozinny, Director, Inventory Quality at Pubmatic, about transparency, bot fraud, supply path optimization and media quality-control. We delve into how the buy and sell sides can manage inventory and what technical tools exist (and are coming) to manage quality and reduce fraud.

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In the latest episode we discuss a landmark birthday. Digital advertising is 25 years old, and we take a trip down memory lane with the diversely talented Phil Cowlishaw, Head of AdCloud, APAC at Adobe. Adobe has just released its “Now We're 25: Digital Advertising Grows Up”. Gai and Phil run through the milestones - from the first banner ad in 1994 to the present day, we look at the evolution of digital marketing and advertising, data, analytics and user experience.

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What is an ideal time for an advertisement to be exposed to an individual? In this episode we chat to Jessica Miles, Sales Director, ANZ at Integral Ad Science (an industry leader in verification and measurement) about viewability and new Australian benchmark data for “time in view” metrics. The new time data is showing strong results with viewable digital ads on desktop have an average exposure time just shy of 12 seconds and video ads having an average in view duration of 13.5 seconds. We move into the role creative plays in time metrics and how it can be used to shape strategy and investment. Viewability rates continue to increase driven by buy side demands and changes that sellers are making to meet those demands. We also talk fraud, Digital Out Of Home, Connected TV, the NZ market … basically we get an update from Jess on all things digital.

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Which ads work and how and why do they achieve their goals? The IAB Ad Effectiveness Council recently released its "Guide to Designing Digital Ad Impact Studies", and in the latest episode we discuss testing and measuring the impact of advertising with two of the guide's authors, Andy Ford, Head of Marketing Science, ANZ at Facebook and Mark Duffy, National Head of Product and Partnerships at Columbus, a Merkle Company. We run through setting up experiments, what to measure, which metrics to use (and not to use) and the role and value of creative.

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We chat to Prue Cox, Director of Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn, about how to drive business revenue and implement brand solutions with business-to-business marketing and advertising. Prue discusses with Gai the emotional journey of good marketing, the impacts of privacy changes and the GDPR in B2B verticals and across LinkedIn, what makes a good and innovative ad and the role creative plays in that.

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