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The Blueprint for Spending your Media Budget Effectively at SXSW

  One of the biggest interactive media, technology and advertising events of the year is finally upon us, SXSW!   Last week at the ANA conference, Mark Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at P&G, said it best when he stated that too much digital advertising is being wasted…   So we thought, why not ensure that advertisers can be as effective as possible with their media spend during the biggest media shebang of the year!?… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
March 8, 2018

Nudge Has Enhanced Video + Social

  We’re excited to share a sneak peek of our latest feature, our video + social integrations!     Today, we’re talking to none other than Ben Young, CEO & Founder of Nudge, about what we’ve built and what this means for our partners.   Interview summary: What we’ve built Why it’s important for Nudge What we’ve learned from building these features How it impacts the Nudge… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
March 7, 2018

This Week in Native Ads 3/2

It’s March! This year is zipping by too fast. Last week, we did a Periscope chatting through This Week in Native, would love your feedback if you caught it. Our own Ari Levine was at the ANA this week, Marc Pritchard opened with a succinct summary: “As we all chased the Holy Grail of digital, self-included, we were relinquishing too much control—blinded by shiny objects, overwhelmed by big data, and… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 2, 2018

This Week in Native Ads 2/23

It has been the week of everyone re-evaluating their platform strategies. The hub & spoke model is tried and true, whereby you use the platforms as outposts, but always draw back to your owned assets. This is as true now, as it was 10 years ago in digital. I did some early modeling on this (ages ago!) on whether you should provide full RSS feeds of your posts, or just the titles. The takeaway was that by distributing… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 23, 2018

An interview with Jeff Hull, the Effie-Winning Branded Content Specialist

  We spoke with Jeff Hull, Effie-winning CD/copywriter specializing in brand content.   Jeff has lengthy experience in brand-level video, events, digital, print and other platforms and has worked for a wide variety of clients including AT&T, Volvo Trucks, Anheuser Busch-Inbev, Raytheon, Chemours, the National Association of Realtors, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Dell EMC and many others.   He is currently working freelance with T-Brand, the Washington Post Brand Studio and The Players’ Tribune,… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
February 22, 2018

This Week in Native Ads 2/16

Keith Weed opened the week saying Unilever will divest from platforms that don’t combat divisive content. He quickly clarified that wasn’t quite the case. But shots fired – point made. What I do like, is that this is getting brands to think about alternative platforms, and there are some great solutions in market. This week FlipBoard have been putting their hand up. Notable stories this week… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 16, 2018

Nudge Product Update 14/9

  Each month we share the latest native content, new product features, upcoming events and more.   Never miss another product update; sign up to the newsletter here.   Nudge Update, February 2018   First of all, Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️   To celebrate we wanted to share a couple of Valentine’s Day articles with you: Consumers spend 69% longer on quizzes on Valentine's Day. Learn what other content types that… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
February 15, 2018

How Variety’s Content Studio Created Exceptional Valentine’s Day Content

  It’s Valentine’s Day and what better way to celebrate the fact than with some top notch content by a leading content studio?   Last year, Variety’s talented in-house content team produced an exceptional campaign together with Focus Features called “The Marriage that Changed the World”. The objective was to raise awareness, engage the film voting audience and collect as many awards nominations & wins for Focus Features’ film, “Loving”.   Native content gave… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
February 13, 2018

This Week in Native Ads 2/9

And we’re back, thanks to Ari for his takeover last week. If you missed it, give it a peek here. I quite liked a couple of things, changing the flow, bringing image & video. We’ll embrace that a bit more. This week we’ve seen how fast a business can unravel, with Newsweek uncovered for ad fraud. Nuts. But a cautionary tale. We’ve just had our inaugural content dinner, with a… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
February 9, 2018

On Valentine’s Day, Consumers Spend 69% Longer on Quizzes

  Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us!   Some people will look to spoil, others will want to be spoiled. Some will spend the day curled up on the couch eating crisps, wishing for the the day to be over…   I’m no dating expert, but I do know a thing or two about advertising; more specifically branded content campaigns [feel free to take a moment to appreciate my seamless transition]. So, in this post… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
February 9, 2018