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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
Content Marketing

What is Content Retargeting?

You’re here to find out what is content retargeting Content retargeting is using retargeting advertising to show groups of content to people who have already read or engaged with your other content. It allows you to manage your content funnel a lot more effectively. For example: Someone reads your thought leadership piece. You then retarget a summary of your industry research. For those that read that research you retarget some of your latest case studies or customer interviews. The intention… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 5, 2016
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 02/05

Campaign of the Week: It’s Not Too Late to Host an Effortless Game Day Party Source: Serious Eats Why we like it: Hyped about the upcoming Super Bowl 50-Party? Want to make it perfect but afraid you don’t have the time? No worries, this sponsored piece on Serious Eats by Boxed has got you covered. It’s a Super Bowl guide including a checklist and… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 4, 2016
Native Advertising

103 Native Advertising Tools to Explore in 2018

We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of all the native advertising tools out there. This list is useful for agencies, brands and publishers. We’ve broken them down in to four categories. Content – Content Creation – Content Recommendation – Content Marketing & Amplification Platforms – Native Ad Platforms – Mobile Native Advertising – Native Ops – Native Video – Native Advertising DSPS – Native Content Publishers… Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
January 28, 2016
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 01/29

Campaigns of the Week: Discover the Hidden Beauty of New York with Paul Jung Source: Design Milk Why we like it: In this piece of content brought to you by Range Rover and Design Milk, New York based photographer Paul Jing takes you on a trip around his favorite city. Showing angles and views sometimes hidden from the untrained eye. The piece is presented as both a video and an article,… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 28, 2016
Strategy

South Park reflects on the digital generation to date – what is really happening in the world of sponsored content?

You might not know this, but a few months ago South Park decided to release a couple of episodes about the digital era of marketing, including pop-ups ads, sponsored content and native ads. The episodes got a lot of exposure and publishers such as Business Insider, Adweek and Techtimes wrote about it on their sites. Maybe, being aired in November 2015, they were just right in time considering what’s happening on the digital landscape right… Continue reading

Therese Bengtsson
Therese Bengtsson
January 28, 2016
Native Advertising

3 Tips to Improve your Native Content

I was reviewing a bunch of Nudge campaigns this morning – and wanted to share three quick things that can be done to improve. Headlines Headlines Headlines Headlines need to be punchy, that doesn’t mean short but a bit more direct in what the user is going to get. Content Length Don’t be afraid to make the content longer, not beefing it up with fluff but just sharing more of the story. There is a strong correlation between increased content length… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 28, 2016