Season 5, Episode 15: Spotify's down-funnel advertising ambitions (with Lee Brown and Per Sandell)

In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Lee Brown, Spotify’s Global Head of Ad Business & Platform, and Per Sandell, Spotify’s VP of Product, about Spotify's recent advertising product expansion, including its Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX) and its mobile app install product. Among other things, we discuss:The history of Spotify's advertising platform, which predates the Everything is an Ad Network phenomenon;The current state of Spotify advertising, including the product announcements made at Spotify's advertising event in New York City last week;How Spotify is bringing generative AI to audio;How performance advertisers use Spotify's advertising platform;The options for targeting on Spotify's platform;What role Spotify sees its ad exchange playing in the programmatic ecosystem;How Spotify plans to eventually automate ad placements and insertions.Thanks to the sponsor of this week’s episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast:INCRMNTAL⁠⁠. True attribution measures incrementality, always on.⁠⁠⁠Clarisights⁠⁠⁠. Marketing analytics that makes it easy to get answers, iterate fast, and show the impact of your work. Go to⁠⁠⁠ clarisights.com/demo⁠⁠⁠ to try it out for free.ContextSDK. ContextSDK uses over 200 smartphone signals to detect a user’s real-world context, allowing apps to deliver perfectly timed push notifications and in-app offers.Interested in sponsoring the Mobile Dev Memo podcast? Contact ⁠Marketecture⁠.The Mobile Dev Memo podcast is available on:Apple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle Podcasts