Last week, we noted how Silicon Valley-based digital audio ad platform and Pandora subsidiary AdsWizz was working to upgrade its offering. The roll out of new features, alongside an optimistic whitepaper, suggested the company was prepping for a surge in business driven by a growing pool of podcast enthusiasts. An interview this week with the company’s SVP of Global Demand, Pierre Naggar, confirmed our hunch. AdsWizz is doing all it can to make digital audio the next gold rush in advertising, despite the current shortfall in business due to the pandemic. Interestingly, this includes investing in improving the actual ads themselves, rather than the platform which delivers them to the consumer. As previously noted, podcasts are a seemingly unstoppable new…