How does SmartAds work?

SmartAds is designed to attribute podcast ad impressions to activity on your website and/or app. At a high level, our methodology works by “connecting the dots” between ad impressions and website or app activity:

• Ad impressions: We receive ad impression data through either our Trackable prefix or a Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI) pixel.
• Website/app activity: We receive advertiser data (website or app activity, like conversions, leads, etc.) from integrations that the advertiser has set up. This could be a web pixel, an MMP connection, or our Server-side connection with LiveRamp.

We log the IP address & user agent associated with each impression, and work with a third-party device graph provider to remove “noisy” traffic (e.g. downloads on cellular IPs) and understand the cross-device context for the user associated with that impression.

Note: SmartAds operates similarly to our Brand Impact product, which helps companies with branded podcasts understand how their podcast listenership translates to website visitation and conversions. Brand Impact is one of two Chartable for Brands offerings—if you have a branded podcast you'd like to attribute, reach out to [email protected]!