Butler/Till, iHeartMedia pilot direct agent-to-agent buying for audio

Now I’ve heard everything. Butler/Till and iHeartMedia ran a four-week agentic buying pilot on streaming audio and podcasts, using matched AI agents to execute a direct agency-publisher buy with no SSP middleman involved.

Why it matters. A working agent-to-agent pipe between agency and publisher cuts SSPs out of the buy, threatening the intermediary role programmatic vendors play in audio.

Signal from digiday.com · Sam Bradley · read the original.

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