This Week in Native Ads 03/11

Campaign of the Week: Discovering Dubai Source: Travel&Leisure Why we like it: A beautifully built custom feature in Travel & Leisure that leaves you wanting to book a flight and be on your way to Dubai. Restaurant and bars, maps and destinations. This piece is interactive and engaging and resulted in a lot of social shares. Quote of the Week Facebook’s test found that… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 10, 2016

This Week in Native Ads 03/04

Campaign of the Week: Smart Moves – See how Editors Strike a Balance Between Workouts, Weekends, and Beyond. Source: Who What Wear Why we like it: Brought to you by New Balance, this native ad in Who What Wear, brings relevant value for the reader with content that is easy to navigate and share. It speaks to it’s audience and fits well into the site. Something… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 3, 2016

This Week in Native Ads 02/26

Campaign of the Week: Dinner Time – 50 Years of Food of Thought Source: TIME Why we like it: This paid post by in TIME, presented by Netflix, features their new series Cooked by digging up some old food stories in the TIME’s archive. Netflix keeps setting a good example of how to work with the publisher to create valuable and relevant nartive content. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 25, 2016

Advertising Effectiveness of Google Accelerated Mobile Pages

Today Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) rolled out to the masses, you will start to see them in searches, indicated by this green thunderbolt. The beauty of this, is that Google is taking the initiative to help clean up the rest of the web, they are abstracting this layer on top. AMP is for content, what Business Listings are for the about pages on small business webpages. People want the information now. So, that’s great, why do advertisers care? Well, more… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 24, 2016

How to Measure Brand Awareness

You’re here as you want to find out more about how to measure brand awareness and the associated metrics. Brand Awareness is: the extent to which consumers are familiar with the distinctive qualities or image of a particular brand of goods or services.” Source: Wikipedia The intent of using this is to understand a baseline level of awareness of your brand and then a post exposure awareness to identify how effective a communications and marketing campaign… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 19, 2016

This Week in Native Ads 02/19

Campaign of the Week: Scotch & Other Stories to Savor Source: Travel + Leisure Why we like it: This masterfully crafted custom feature in Travel + Leisure invites you into an alluring world of the finest single malts, with delightful facts and the stories behind them. Quote of the Week People come back because of the attachment that they have… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 18, 2016

What is Native Content Advertising?

Native content advertising is where you use native ad formats to distribute your content. Our post The Best Native Ads of 2015 has some great examples of best in class executions, further we have compiled a list of native advertising tools you can leverage. You might be wondering, how does native content complement my content marketing initiatives, native content is a great way to extend those efforts. It’s like the icing on the cake, it helps draw people in. You… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 18, 2016

Native Advertising Analytics

Native advertising analytics enables advertisers to see what impact their ad campaigns are having. There are specialist tools which focus on each part of the journey. Upper funnel tools help see how long the ad was in view, and the frequency and CTR. Then down funnel, looking at the post-click engagement, like scroll, attention and conversion rate. Nudge as a platform has specialized in this use case of distributed native content, you are either buying native content across multiple sites… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 18, 2016

This Week in Native Ads 02/12

Campaign of the Week: 11 Perfect Valentine’s Day Gifts For The Jet-Setting Couple Source: Bustle Why we like it: It’s February, the month when nothing seems to happen and you’re dreaming of warmer places and adventurous summer getaways. You scroll through your social feed and envy the couples that seem to have the perfect jet-set life, so why not create one on your… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 11, 2016

Three Platforms that allow Content Retargeting

Content retargeting is a new tool in the content marketers toolkit, recently I covered how to retarget your content and thought worthwhile to share which platforms allow you to retarget content. OutBrain recently announced with their platform you can. Utilizing their recommendation widgets to get more eyeballs on your content. RevContent also allows you to do this. Yahoo Gemini, also lets you leverage in-feed as well as recommendation units with their platform. Further, most… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 9, 2016