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Number one, AI stopped being a tool and became the building.

Sango Powers from AdForm put it the way I keep thinking about it.

AI used to work behind the scenes and now it works next to us.

David Ingram from Resolve was even blunter.

AudioStack's Silke Ziche counters that host-read ads are trusted but hard to scale, and that contextually matched creative remains underused.

And Adform's William Jones calls podcasts undervalued and says improved attribution now lets buyers measure business impact across the customer journey.

Next up, podcasting's most valuable ad asset: the host.

Podcast News Daily features a conversation between Oxford Road CEO Dan Granger and Sounds Profitable partner Brian Barletta on where podcast monetization goes from here.