Product overview

Programmatic Audio uses the number one activity on mobile devices, music and podcast streaming, to deliver your message to your audience based on their behavior and interest.

Optimize Audio through Genius Monkey’s results-driven programmatic advertising platform helps you see better results from your marketing dollars by delivering low cost audio ads on audio streaming sources such as Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, IHeartRadio, and more. Reach your target audience wherever they go! These spots such as Spotify commercials and Pandora commercials are also placed with a tagalong banner ad, giving your audience a chance to not only listen to your message, but to click-through and engage with your website too. Exercising, commuting, working, relaxing at home… no matter which platform or device they use to listen to their music, podcast, news, or sports on, your ads will be there.

And you can also track conversions on your site that were influenced by individuals who heard your Optimize Audio advertisements through our industry-leading reporting and attribution!

Key features

  • Pay per engagement instead of per impression
  • Placements on all devices, sites, apps, and more
  • Virtually limitless behavioral targeting
  • Real-time optimization using real data of what’s working
  • Deep reporting with full view-through & click-through attribution—even on audio ads that have no click
An audio ad playing in a music streaming app, in front of a smart speaker.

Average audio ad pricing comparison

Genius Monkey averageIndustry average
Effective CPM$21 - $37$38 - $50
Cost per conversion$16.70*Not tracked

*Numbers vary heavily by vertical and client to client

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Why audio?

Your audience isn’t always looking at a screen—but they’re always listening.

Audio allows brands to:

  • Reach users during screen-free moments
  • Capture attention in distraction-free environments
  • Build frequency across daily routines
  • Extend reach beyond traditional digital channels

Premium audio inventory at scale

Spotify · iHeartRadio · Pandora · SoundCloud · Podcast Networks

Integrations with leading SSP’s to help you reach people on top audio publishers

Spotify Soundcloud iHeartRadio Pandora TuneIn ESPN Rubicon Adswizz Triton Drax Yahoo

Data-driven audio targeting

Reach listeners with advanced audience strategies:
  • 1st-party data onboarding and activation
  • Deterministic targeting based on known user signals
  • Probabilistic modeling to scale audience reach

This allows campaigns to maintain precision while expanding efficiently across listening environments.

Targeting that follows your audience

Behavioral and interest data

Location & movement signals

Device-level targeting

Campaign-level transparency

Measurement & performance

Attribution reporting

Conversion tracking

Cross-device insights

Campaign-level transparency

Programmatic audio reaches target audiences wherever they go:

At Home

At home

On the Go

On the go

On the Road

On the road