• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, June 7, 2023

Triton Digital, through a partnership with Basis Technologies, will enable marketers to streamline and consolidate advertising across podcast, streaming and terrestrial broadcast radio via the Triton Audio Marketplace.

The expanded partnership, announced Wednesday, gives brands and agencies programmatic guaranteed buying access to broadcast radio ads. It solves the challenge of media buyers gaining access to all forms of audio through one platform, and to expand campaigns into broadcast media.  

John Rosso, president and CEO at Triton Digital, a global technology and services company, said Triton has worked with Basis, a cloud-based workflow automation and business intelligence software company, for years.

“It’s a way for digital buyers to buy audio through a familiar platform -- Basis,” he said.

Basis is a self-service platform. In the initial release, it operated like a Programmatic Guarantee with a pre-negotiated rate between buyer and seller. Invoicing, reporting and creative will occur through the Basis platform.

"This is the first step,” he said. “We are working toward a full open market non-guaranteed implements that will probably launch at the end of this year.”

Purchasing broadcast radio historically has been a complex process, requiring time-consuming negotiations and agreements between marketers and publishers.

The Triton Audio Marketplace alleviates this frustration by aggregating audiences at scale across all audio segments, making it seamless for agencies to plan, buy, and measure the impact of cross-platform audio advertising.

Rosso calls the partnership "an industry first." In another first, he says, broadcast radio inventory from iHeartMedia will become available in the Triton Audio Marketplace, with additional broadcast partners to follow.

The Triton Audio Marketplace offers access to a large audience -- more than 100 billion audio impressions per month -- allowing marketers and agencies to transact on all forms of audio inventory and use sophisticated measurement and targeting tools.

Basis gives advertisers access to audience segments that are normalized in digital to broadcast spot radio, as well as real-time optimization of broadcast campaigns. 

When asked how generative artificial intelligence (AI) will change Triton's business, he said is will become just another tool in the toolbox within a couple of years and wonder how marketers did their jobs without it. 

"Based on what we have seen in the programmatic digital out-of-home business, we think this will work," he said. "this is the same path we will go down in the audio and radio business."