Triton Digital Releases New Audio Insights Dashboard Experience in Sounder

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Triton Digital Releases New Audio Insights Dashboard Experience in Sounder

2024-12-19 22:00 Last Updated At：22:10

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 19, 2024--

Triton Digital, the global technology and services leader in the digital audio, podcast, and broadcast radio industries, today announced it has added new capabilities for high level analysis of content to its Audio Insights Dashboard in its AI-powered audio intelligence platform, Sounder. Through the new Overview analysis, Sounder displays the top contextual categories, named entities, and brand suitability trends that are occurring in publishers' content, across different shows and at an episode level, which can be leveraged to enhance brand safety, target specific audiences, and increase monetization opportunities.

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New and existing Sounder customers will be able to view Trending Categories within the Overview analysis. This feature provides publishers with a more in-depth view of IAB categories that were present in their catalog, beyond the genre of their catalog, within the past three months. Publishers will also have access to Trending Named Entities, which gives insight into the people, places, organizations, or products currently being talked about in their inventory and culture as a whole. Both of these new features provide publishers with new data and insights that serve as a starting point for them to understand their content and effectively package inventory for contextual selling.

Publishers will also have a comprehensive view of the suitability of their content across their network. Previously, publishers could only see show-by-show what content might pose a suitability risk to certain advertisers, but now can view a snapshot of the percentage of their content classified as “high” or “floor” to proactively identify potential risks and if they choose, opt to drill down into a single suitability category. The simplified, AI-powered brand suitability solution helps publishers demonstrate their commitment to a safe environment, enhancing brand confidence and positioning Sounder as an ideal partner for brands prioritizing suitability in contextual campaigns. This new, streamlined approach to brand safety is optimized to help publishers navigate advertiser requirements with ease, minimizing the manual processes that often accompany brand safety solutions.

“We’re always looking for more ways to help our clients reach our audiences and align their message with topical and timely podcast content. The new dashboard allows us to quickly and easily identify trends and opportunities for new contextual campaigns,” said Kevin Greenwald, VP, Head of Advertising & Audience Products at Audacy. “These added features to Sounder allow us to have deeper conversations with advertisers, automate brand safety analysis, and open the door to collaborate with new brands and connect them to our audiences.”

“Brand suitability is increasingly becoming table stakes as brands seek more control over where they reach their audiences. Meanwhile, publishers have more audience insights than ever before but they often face the challenge of trying to decide where to start with those insights,” said Sharon Taylor, Executive Vice President of Podcast and Content Delivery, at Triton Digital. “With Sounder’s new Overview analysis, publishers have the data they need to showcase the depth and trustworthiness of their content and give advertisers more confidence in their contextual targeting campaigns.”

This new dashboard experience follows Sounder’s recent introduction of Promo Hub, which automates key aspects of podcast promotion and content creation workflow for publishers of all sizes. Triton Digital acquired Sounder in March 2024 to bring Sounder’s brand suitability solutions and AI-powered podcast understanding to Triton Digital’s existing audio streaming and podcasting technology. The acquisition has enabled a more seamless, data-driven advertising experience for brands, agencies, publishers, and podcasters.

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About Triton Digital

Triton Digital® is the global technology and services leader to the digital audio, podcast, and broadcast radio industries. Operating in more than 80 countries, Triton provides innovative technology that enables broadcasters, podcasters, and online music services to build their audience, maximize revenue, and streamline their day-to-day operations. In addition, Triton powers the global online audio industry with Webcast Metrics®, the leading streaming audio measurement service and Podcast Metrics, one of the first IAB certified podcast measurement services in the industry. With unparalleled integrity, excellence, teamwork, and accountability, Triton remains committed to connecting audio, audience, and advertisers to continuously fuel the growth of the global audio industry. For more information, visit www.TritonDigital.com.

Former Philippine President Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant over drug killings

2025-03-11 14:24 Last Updated At：14:31

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested at Manila's international airport Tuesday on order of the International Criminal Court in connection with a case of crime against humanity filed against him, the Philippine government said.

Duterte was arrested after arriving from Hong Kong and police took him into custody on orders of the ICC, which has been investigating the mass killings that happened under the former president's deadly crackdown against illegal drugs, President Ferdinand Marcos' office said in a statement.

“Upon his arrival, the prosecutor general served the ICC notification for an arrest warrant to the former president for the crime of crime against humanity,” the government said. “He’s now in the custody of authorities."

The surprise arrest sparked a commotion at the airport, where lawyers and aides of Duterte loudly protested that they, along with a doctor and lawyers, were prevented from coming close to him after he was taken into police custody. “This is a violation of his constitutional right,” Sen. Bong Go, a close Duterte ally. told reporters.

The warrant of arrest sent by the ICC to Philippine officials, a copy of which was seen by The AP, said “there are reasonable grounds to believe that" the attack on victims "was both widespread and systematic: the attack took place over a period of several years and thousands people appear to have been killed.”

Duterte’s arrest was necessary “to ensure his appearance before the court,” according to the March 7 warrant, adding that the former president was expected to ignore a court summons.

It said that although Duterte was no longer president, he “appears to continue to wield considerable power.”

“Mindful of the resultant risk of interference with the investigations and the security of witnesses and victims, the chamber is satisfied that the arrest of Mr. Duterte is necessary.”

Duterte's arrest and downfall stunned and drove families of the victims of his bloody crackdowns against illegal drugs to tears.

“This is a big, long-awaited day for justice,” Randy delos Santos, the uncle of a teenager killed by police during an anti-drug operation in August 2017 in the Manila metropolis, told The Associated Press.

“Now we feel that justice is rolling. We hope that top police officials and the hundreds of police officers who were involved in the illegal killings should also be placed in custody and punished,” delos Santos said.

Three of the police officers who killed his nephew, Kian delos Santos, were convicted in 2018 for the high-profile murder, which prompted Duterte at the time to temporarily suspend his brutal anti-drugs crackdown.

The conviction was one of at least three, so far, against law enforcers involved in the anti-drugs campaign, reflecting the concerns of families of victims of suspected extrajudicial killings that they would not get justice in the Philippines, hence, their decision to seek the help of the ICC.

It was not immediately clear where Duterte was taken by the police and when he would be flown to Europe to be handed to ICC custody. The government said the 79-year-old former leader was in good health.

The ICC began investigating drug killings under Duterte from Nov. 1, 2011, when he was still mayor of the southern city of Davao, to March 16, 2019, as possible crimes against humanity. Duterte withdrew the Philippines in 2019 from the Rome Statute in a move human rights activists say was aimed at escaping accountability.

The Duterte administration moved to suspend the global court’s investigation in late 2021 by arguing that Philippine authorities were already looking into the same allegations, arguing the ICC — a court of last resort — didn’t have jurisdiction.

Appeals judges at the ICC ruled in 2023 the investigation could resume and rejected the Duterte administration’s objections. Based in The Hague, the Netherlands, the ICC can step in when countries are unwilling or unable to prosecute suspects in the most heinous international crimes, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who succeeded Duterte in 2022 and became entangled in a bitter political dispute with the former president, has decided not to rejoin the global court. But the Marcos administration has said it would cooperate if the ICC asks international police to take Duterte into custody through a so-called Red Notice, a request for law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and temporarily arrest a crime suspect.

Associated Press journalists Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila contributed to this report.