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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
Strategy

How Brands in the Fashion and Beauty Industry Creates the Best Content Hubs

The beauty of fashion While New York Fashion Week 2016 has come to an end, Nudge would like to present two industries that have been discussed topics the last couple of weeks. Fashion and beauty allow people to express themselves and works as daily inspirations, which is why so many companies today are dedicated to these industries. Nudge creates monthly research reports where you can read about how brands and native content, within different categories, can perform the best. Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
February 19, 2016
Analytics

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

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
Native Advertising

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
Analytics

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
Strategy

The Power of Content Hubs in the Automotive Industry

Three different configurations to expose your content Some decisions are easier to make than others. Buying a new car can in particular be a hard decision and you might want to do a lot of research and comparisons between models, brands and prices before you decide. Nudge presents, in their research papers, how benchmarks for brands within the same industries can help companies get the most out of their next campaigns. Nudge also eases the process of measure and… Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
February 17, 2016
Strategy

How Content Marketing Hubs Win in the Alcohol Industry

What is a content marketing hub? A content marketing hub is an online destination, owned by brands, where the brands act like publishers. The content is in some way related to the brand and organized around a specific topic. Usually, the content comes from a combination of authors, is often non-promotional, and it can be more or less branded. A content hub can be published on the brand’s webpage or on a separate site. Nudge has created  research papers… Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
February 12, 2016
This Week in Native Ads

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
Content Marketing

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