SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz today announced an expanded agreement with LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) to deploy scalable identity solutions across programmatic audio, giving advertisers and publishers a new path to addressable audience targeting and advanced campaign measurement. The announcement, released May 28, 2026, positions the combined SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz operation as one of the largest audio advertising ecosystems to formally integrate LiveRamp's identity infrastructure.

The deal brings LiveRamp's Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) - and the RampID identifier that underpins it - into the core of SiriusXM Media's streaming and podcast inventory, including Pandora, and extends programmatic activation capabilities to the broader AdsWizz publisher network in the United States.

What the integration covers

At the center of the arrangement is RampID, LiveRamp's durable, interoperable identifier. According to SiriusXM, RampID is currently available across SiriusXM Media's streaming and podcast inventory, and this expanded agreement formalizes its use alongside other identifiers in what both companies describe as a multi-ID framework.

The Authenticated Traffic Solution functions by allowing publishers to authenticate their audiences - typically through first-party login data - and then translate that authentication into an identifier that can be recognized across the programmatic supply chain. Historically, the mechanism was described as a pass-through: the signal moved through the ecosystem but was not fully activated for targeting or monetization. According to SiriusXM, AdsWizz's integration now advances identity from pass-through to activation, a structural distinction that carries direct implications for both yield and measurement.

On the buy side, the result is multi-ID compatibility across streaming inventory. Advertisers can now match addressable listeners across platforms - including Pandora - using RampID alongside other identifiers, producing what the companies describe as improved match rates, more effective optimization, and better return on investment. The framework also supports cross-platform consistency, meaning a campaign can maintain targeting coherence across devices rather than fragmenting at the point where different platforms resolve identity differently.

On the sell side, the implications are equally direct. AdsWizz publishers in the U.S. that have an Authenticated Traffic Solution integration can, according to SiriusXM, increase programmatic sell-through and increase the value of their inventory. The logic is straightforward: unaddressable impressions have historically returned lower CPMs and lower fill rates. When those impressions become addressable through a recognized identity framework, they compete for more demand and carry a higher floor. The integration also gives publishers access to insights that can drive optimization over time.

The identity infrastructure behind the deal

RampID operates as a pseudonymized identifier. Personally identifiable information is replaced with an encrypted token before it moves between parties in the data collaboration network. The result is that buyers can recognize and reach a known audience segment without gaining direct access to the underlying user data. LiveRamp's network spans over 900 brands, publishers, and platforms, as documented in prior coverage of the DIRECTV CAPI Hub integration and the Uber Intelligence clean room launch.

The interoperability with all major demand-side platforms (DSPs) is significant for audio specifically. According to SiriusXM, RampID's ecosystem scale and interoperability with all major DSPs means buyers can activate more seamlessly, allowing identity signals to move more easily across programmatic partners. In practice, this means an advertiser running a campaign through any of the major DSPs does not need a separate technical arrangement to activate against RampID-authenticated audio inventory. The identifier is already recognized at the other end of the transaction.

Sherene Hilal, Chief Ads Product Officer at SiriusXM, explained the structural problem the integration addresses: "Premium audio environments generate powerful intent signals, but have historically remained disconnected from media activation and transaction-level measurement." Hilal added: "Our RampID-enabled framework empowers advertisers to connect with addressable audiences more precisely, while helping publishers drive stronger monetization and access deeper demand with identity at the forefront."

Travis Clinger, Chief Connectivity & Ecosystem Officer and GM, International at LiveRamp, framed the expansion from the data infrastructure side: "As marketers look to unify their view of customers and personalize every stop along their journey, expanding the relationship with SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz helps further unlock critical audio touchpoints." Clinger continued: "RampID's scale and interoperability with other identifiers make it easy for marketers to activate on audio with the same ease and performance as every other platform."

Why audio identity has lagged

The audio advertising market has operated under a persistent structural disadvantage relative to display and social. PPC Land's coverage of the AdsWizz State of Audio Adtech Report 2025 documented that audio accounts for 31 percent of consumers' total media time but receives only 9 percent of advertising budgets - a gap that practitioners have attributed partly to measurement limitations and partly to the fragmented identity infrastructure across streaming, podcast, and broadcast formats.

Identity resolution in audio has faced specific complications. Unlike web display, where cookies and pixels have historically provided a relatively consistent signal layer, audio streams often lack the persistent tracking mechanisms that digital display takes for granted. A listener on a mobile device using a podcast app may generate no browser signal at all. A listener on a connected speaker generates even less. The result is that large portions of audio inventory have remained technically unaddressable - not because the audience is not there, but because the mechanism for recognizing and transacting on that audience across the buy side was incomplete.

The Authenticated Traffic Solution addresses this by anchoring recognition to first-party authentication. If a listener is logged into Pandora, for example, that login generates a deterministic signal that can be translated into RampID. That identifier then travels through the programmatic supply chain in a form that buyers recognize, enabling the same kind of audience-based targeting that has become standard in display and CTV. The key word in the AdsWizz integration is "activation" - the identity signal no longer merely passes through but is actively used to match inventory with demand.

PPC Land's December 2025 analysis of programmatic audio trends noted that identity resolution was expected to become a defining competitive factor in audio for 2026. The prediction cited publisher-advertiser identity alliances as a reshaping force in the digital audio ecosystem - exactly the mechanism that the SiriusXM Media-AdsWizz-LiveRamp arrangement formalizes.

AdsWizz's position in the broader audio stack

AdsWizz Inc. is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. According to SiriusXM, it is the technology engine powering the monetization of audio content worldwide, serving publishers and independent content creators with the tools needed to scale their audio business. The platform encompasses dynamic ad insertion, advanced programmatic capabilities, contextual targeting, and first-to-market audio ad formats.

SiriusXM acquired AdsWizz as part of its Pandora acquisition. Pandora paid $145 million for AdsWizz in cash and stock, and the platform has since become the technical spine of SiriusXM Media's advertising operations, as detailed in PPC Land's coverage of the YouTube audio deal. The AdsWizz platform processes billions of monthly audio ad impressions globally.

The expanded LiveRamp integration builds on a series of moves that have steadily extended AdsWizz's programmatic reach. In September 2025, Amazon and SiriusXM announced a programmatic audio integration that gave Amazon DSP buyers access to SiriusXM Media's 160 million monthly digital listeners. That partnership used the AdsWizz Supply Side Platform as the technical connector, providing programmatic buyers with access to Pandora and SoundCloud U.S. inventory for the first time through Amazon's system.

In April 2026, SiriusXM Media and YouTube announced a deal under which SiriusXM Media will serve as the exclusive U.S. advertising representative for YouTube's audio inventory, with the arrangement expected to expand SiriusXM's addressable advertising reach to approximately 255 million monthly listeners. That deal also runs through AdsWizz. The LiveRamp integration adds an identity layer to that expanding inventory footprint, which means the same RampIDframework will be applicable not just to legacy SiriusXM and Pandora inventory but across the broader portfolio as it scales.

SiriusXM as a whole reaches a combined monthly audience of approximately 255 million listeners, according to SiriusXM. Its portfolio includes the flagship satellite subscription service, the ad-supported and premium streaming services of Pandora, an expansive podcast network, and a suite of business and advertising solutions.

The Publicis-LiveRamp context

The SiriusXM-LiveRamp agreement arrives ten days after Publicis Groupe announced a definitive agreement to acquire LiveRamp for a total enterprise value of $2.167 billion - an all-cash transaction at $38.50 per share representing a 29.8 percent premium to LiveRamp's closing price on May 15, 2026. PPC Land covered the acquisition in detail when it was announced on May 18, 2026.

The acquisition has generated significant discussion in the programmatic industry about what control of RampID by a single holding company means for the broader ecosystem. PPC Land's weekly recap noted that Omnicom, which inherited the IPG client base, had already been planning to exit LiveRamp when its contract ran its course in Q1 2028, and that the Publicis deal moved that timeline forward. Omnicom CEO John Wren indicated that Acxiom's internally built Real ID solution was designed precisely to avoid third-party dependency for identity infrastructure.

The SiriusXM-AdsWizz announcement does not address the Publicis acquisition directly. But it matters for context: SiriusXM and AdsWizz are deepening their structural reliance on RampID at the same moment that RampID's ownership is transitioning to a single agency holding company. Publishers and advertisers building infrastructure around LiveRamp's identifier will increasingly be doing so within a landscape where that identifier is owned by a Publicis-controlled entity. The transaction is expected to close before year-end 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and LiveRamp shareholder sign-off.

What the marketing community is watching

For media buyers, the SiriusXM-AdsWizz deal represents an opportunity to bring audio into the same identity-based planning workflow used for display, social, and CTV. The consistent complaint from audio advocates has been that the medium cannot be evaluated on comparable terms because the data infrastructure is not equivalent. RampID addressability across Pandora and the broader SiriusXM Media streaming and podcast inventory closes part of that gap.

The practical implication is that a brand using RampID in a display or CTV campaign can now extend that audience definition into audio without a separate identity arrangement. Campaign measurement can, in principle, follow a single user identifier across screens and speakers. The cross-platform consistency that Hilal cited - supporting greater cross-platform consistency for advertisers - is the specific capability that has historically made CTV attractive as a complement to linear television. Applied to audio, it offers a similar proposition: programmatic buying with the same data clarity and measurement accountability.

For publishers using AdsWizz, the monetization calculus shifts. Inventory that previously priced as unaddressable now qualifies for demand that requires identity signals. The spread between addressable and unaddressable CPMs in programmatic is material. Publishers that have historically accepted lower floor prices for audio impressions because of the identity gap can now compete for the same budgets that flow to identity-resolved display and video inventory.

According to SiriusXM, this expanded relationship with LiveRamp is the latest milestone in SiriusXM Media and AdsWizz's efforts to make audio advertising more addressable and measurable at scale, with identity solutions that support addressability across devices and platforms.

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Summary

Who: SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz (a SiriusXM subsidiary), and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a global data collaboration platform

What: An expanded agreement integrating LiveRamp's Authenticated Traffic Solution and RampID identifier across SiriusXM Media's streaming and podcast inventory - including Pandora - and enabling U.S. AdsWizz publishers to activate identity for programmatic sell-through, advancing the role of the identifier from pass-through to full activation

When: Announced May 28, 2026, at 9:00 AM EDT

Where: The integration applies to SiriusXM Media's streaming and podcast inventory in the United States and to AdsWizz publishers in the U.S. with an Authenticated Traffic Solution integration; LiveRamp's network spans over 900 programmatic partners globally

Why: Unaddressable audio impressions have historically generated lower CPMs and fill rates, limiting publisher yield and restricting advertiser access to the kind of audience-based targeting standard in other channels; the integration applies deterministic identity infrastructure to close that gap, enabling advertisers to reach authenticated audio audiences with the same data precision available in display, social, and CTV

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