{"id":394,"date":"2025-09-02T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abellenz.com\/portfolio\/?p=394"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:50:15","slug":"iheartmedia-self-service-ad-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"iHeartMedia self-service ad platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>&#8220;The radio craze \u2026 will soon fade.&#8221;<\/h1><p>&mdash;Thomas Edison, 1922<\/p><p>Wrong then, and still wrong today. \u201cTerrestrial\u201d radio remains popular even as it transitions to streaming, and audio content and advertising are only growing. IHeartMedia needed to expand targeted radio advertising to a much wider field of smaller advertisers by reducing the overhead costs and pricing for radio ads. Our small team delivered a 0-1 design and spec for a self-service audio advertising platform that would offload content creation from small businesses, simplify market selection, track and verify campaign runs, and manage budgets based on results. It had a super simple wizard UI with limited, intuitive choices on each step and help easily in reach. We consulted with senior executives to develop the concept, tested on a full prototype, and delivered final design and specs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ihm-ux-1524x2048.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-752\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The radio craze \u2026 will soon fade.&#8221; &mdash;Thomas Edison, 1922 Wrong then, and still wrong today. \u201cTerrestrial\u201d radio remains popular even as it transitions to streaming, and audio content and advertising are only growing. IHeartMedia needed to expand targeted radio advertising to a much wider field of smaller advertisers by reducing the overhead costs and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/?p=394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iHeartMedia self-service ad platform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,6,5,7,13,3],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consulting","tag-creative-direction","tag-leadership","tag-prototyping","tag-user-research","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abellenz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}