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5 charts that show the problem with native ad disclosure
digiday.com
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Native advertising is one of the biggest — and more controversial — obsessions in media. The editorial-mimicking ad format, which is arguably not new at all but a modern spin on the advertorial, is still a small part of budgets for most advertisers. But 63 percent of ANA members said in a survey that they expected to increase their spending on nat…

Do BuzzFeed’s native political ads cross a line? - Columbia Journalism Review
www.cjr.org
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BuzzFeed is perhaps the most prominent outlet yet to promise sponsored content for political candidates.... will create and sell native advertising for office seekers in 2016, a potentially lucrative move in an election cycle that is expected to see $1 billion spent on digital ads, up from just $22 million in 2008. The move could herald in a new m…

Article or Ad? When It Comes to Native, No One Knows
contently.com
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In four of the six groups shown a native advertisement, the majority interpreted the piece as an article.

Ev Williams on Medium’s future and listening to his gut
www.theverge.com
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the next phase of Medium is about linking writers with brands, with Medium acting as the go-between, vetting creators. Meaning, in part, a native advertising hub filled with long-tail content.... There’s going to be sponsorships and branded dollars on the platform. Our vision is to connect quality creators with brands who may want to work with the…

The Financial Times readies paid posts for advertisers
digiday.com
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The publisher is uniting its existing content marketing packages and launching a sponsored content offering “paid posts,” under a newly branded unit, FT Squared, dedicated to these kinds of advertiser partnerships. - The Financial Times readies paid posts for advertisers - Digiday

The ad blocking controversy, explained
www.vox.com
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"It's a discussion that's been running for a long time, but has kicked into overdrive because of Apple's release of a new operating system for iPhones and the launch of new services like Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News. And it's something you'll be hearing more and more about if you read things online..." Good observation: "if content …

Politico moves inot 'Brand Journalism'
adage.com
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"Stephanie Losee, who helped build Dell's content-driven marketing and held the title of managing editor, has joined Politico as its executive director of brand content... Politico Focus will not only help advertisers create content butwill not only help advertisers create content but also provide services around data and research" - Politico H…

GE's Digital-Content Hub on - and by - Quartz
adage.com
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"Publishing partners have built best-in-class agency capabilities in house... brands and their media-buying agencies are going to publishers, emboldened by larger budgets, to create large-scale interactive ads with graphics, video and text.... "ours is a story that requires more than an ad. Content helps them explain the technology behind th…

Conde Nast: Branded Content by Editors
blogs.wsj.com
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"Condé will have editors from its fleet of magazines work directly with marketers to produce branded content.... ... raises another potential tension point: the extent to which journalists should be involved in the business side of publishing. In the media world, the two wings have long had a church-and-state separation." - Conde Nast Unveils Br…

The Dirty Politics Of Native Advertising
www.linkedin.com

"With election season starting up, will we see native ads masquerading as independent political reporting?" - The Dirty Politics Of Native Advertising | Tom Foremski | LinkedIn

Washington Post prints 'native' ads
digiday.com
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"When is a print advertorial a native ad? The Washington Post published an ad for Shell in Thursday’s print edition that it’s touting as its first native ad in print. Shell used the ad, which ran on A13, to tell readers about the work it’s doing to improve energy efficiency. A nearly identical version ran online." - The Washington Post takes its …

British Newspapers Embrace Native Advertising
www.clickz.com
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"Following on the heels of the Guardian and Metro UK, News UK has developed a Creative Content Unit to focus on native advertising... We've entered a new world where lines are fuzzier. The ethics shouldn't be fuzzy... If you're straight up and disclose who you are and where you're coming from, readers are mature enough to determine whether it's s…

Venture-backed US media: over-funded & over here?
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

If you care about EU democracy you need to care about European media, particularly as the upcoming US media invasion gets underway. They'll be pushing on an open door when they get to Brussels.

Native advertising at the Times
www.capitalnewyork.com

"“The best way to preserve editorially independent, high quality journalism is to preserve the business model. And I think the idea of branded content that shares a form factor with editorial is a great first step.”" - Going native at the Times | Capital New York

The invasion of corporate news
www.ft.com
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Great piece on corporate journalism from the FT. "The Richmond Standard is one of the more polished sites to emerge in the age of hyper-local digital news brands such as Patch and DNAinfo.com... it is run and funded by Chevron, the $240bn oil group which owns the Richmond refinery that in August 2012 caught fire... sending more than 15,000 reside…

White paper: sponsored content and native advertising in news
www.americanpressinstitute.org
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"... It goes by many other pseudonyms — “native advertising,” “content marketing” — but the basic value proposition in most cases is the same. Publishers work with sponsors to create content that is “native” to the particular platform (in some cases looking very similar to editorial content) and is more engaging than display advertising.... This…

Awesome takedown of native advertising. Via AdAge.
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Awesome takedown of native advertising. Via AdAge.

What Content Consumers Want (from brands)
fleishmanhillard.com
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"there is a hierarchy of information consumers are looking for.... consumers seem much less concerned with how they receive it than with whether the content itself is well conceived, well executed, useful and honest." - Survey: What Types of Content Consumers Do Want From Brands | FleishmanHillard

NYT native advertising performance
pando.com
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"the Orange is the New Black-inspired content series on women inmates in America cracked the top 10 most read articles on the site, with fifty percent of its traffic coming from social media and 60 percent from mobile. ... time spent ... rivaled time spent with the top New York Times editorial. “ - New York Times adman gushes over native advertis…

Study: Sponsored Content Has a Trust Problem
contently.com
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Key "takeaways" (gag), of which the last is hilarious: "- Two-thirds of readers have felt deceived upon realizing that an article or video was sponsored by a brand. - 54 percent of readers don’t trust sponsored content. - 59 percent of readers believe a news site loses credibility if it runs articles sponsored by a brand. - As education level …

Crisis of trust as sponsored content puts media credibility into question - The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com
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"As media companies seek out new ways to make money, is a crisis of trust brewing?"

How native advertising screws media brands
buzzmachine.com
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"I’ve long said that if you have to put a link next to a label saying “what’s this?” then the label clearly isn’t clear enough. ... when I see a link to Forbes on Twitter, I don’t know whether it is going to take me to (1) the good work of a Forbes journalists, (2) the good work of a Forbes contributor, (3) the bad work of one of many Forbes cont…

Innovation: CMS, news media & personal productivity (TumblrHub last week, part 2)
www.linkedin.com

Part 2 of my second weekly roundup, where the overriding theme is innovation.

Women Inmates Separate But Not Equal (Paid Post by Netflix From NYTimes.com)
paidpost.nytimes.com
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The NYT's "Snowfall" of native advertising. Great quality. Still don't like native advertising.

Circa's 1st Revenue Stream: Native Ads
adage.com
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Surprise surprise... "Circa is developing two types of ads: magazine-style full-screen banners, like Flipboard, and sponsored posts... which look and feel like editorial, created by a separate staff.... One future revenue possibility would be licensing access to Circa's article data to other publishers," - News App Circa Looks to Na…

New York Times redesign
money.cnn.com
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"whole new publishing and technology system ... continually iterate on the site and take advantage of new technology trends ... instead of seeing major redesigns in the future, users will see more incremental changes" Key question: are the native ads clearly ads? - New York Times redesign points to future of online publishing - Jan. 8, 2014

Storytelling Techniques For Effective Business Communications » The “Catch 22” of Native Advertising
www.ishmaelscorner.com
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"For those of you not familiar with native advertising, it refers to a publication serving up paid stories and editorial content the same way. You’ll hear this technique also referred to as sponsored content and branded journalism. With no one clicking on banner ads, publications hope to find economic salvation in native advertising. But here’s …

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