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Radio Advertising

Also: Broadcast radio; AM/FM

Advertising on terrestrial radio, bought by station, daypart, and market against Nielsen Audio ratings, and increasingly sold alongside the stations' streams and podcasts. Radio remains one of the largest reach media in the US and is bought largely outside programmatic systems.

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