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robot-reporter
robot-reporter

This Week in Native Ads 9/15

With all this year’s Dmexco attendees en route home here’s this week in native. Notable Stories this Week Predictive recommendations creating new inventory for Facebook. This is part of a wider narrative developing around AI content and the ad revenue created from it. WaPo robot reporter has published 850 articles, 500 articles generated 500,000 clicks (around the election). Jack Marshall at WSJ asked FB why they allow… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
September 15, 2017
Influencer marketing and branded content
Influencer marketing and branded content

Native Tactics #3 Influencers Drive High Quality Traffic

  Native tactics are simple ways to grow the value and scale of your native content campaigns.   In this blog series, we’ll be featuring tactics that you may or may not currently have in your arsenal, but most definitely should.   Over time, this blog series will feature a bunch of great tactics that you and your team should be utilizing – find them here… #3 Use influencers to drive high quality traffic… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
September 14, 2017
Native advertising content stream by Nudge
Native advertising content stream by Nudge

How to Identify Problems Early With Nudge’s Content Stream

  When you go to build a campaign, Nudge Content Stream allows you to see all of the pieces of content that haven’t yet been added to a campaign.   In turn, this reduces the time it takes for your team to build campaigns and minimizes the risk of error, which is part of our commitment to making the platform even smarter and easier to use. Nudge’s Content Stream helps marketers… Identify problems early. See all the… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
September 12, 2017

Video Attribution

Video advertising is like the dark arts, there are many different players; different environments, devices, vendors and ways it’s served to the end consumer. This makes it difficult to truly understand where and what combination is truly engaging consumers and lifting results. As a way to sort through this mess, video attribution is a way of benchmarking the quality of the inventory you are buying. The ground hypothesis is, the ultimate measure of advertising effectiveness is the way… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
September 5, 2017

Native Tactics #2 Plan for SEO

Native tactics are simple ways to grow the value and scale of your native content campaigns. In this blog series, we’ll be featuring tactics that you may or may not currently have in your arsenal, but most definitely should. Over time, this blog series will feature a bunch of great tactics that you and your team should be utilizing – find them here… #2 Plan for SEO Search engine optimization need not be a dirty word for brand campaigns, it… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
September 5, 2017
Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed
Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed

This Week in Native Ads 9/1

In the race to its IPO, BuzzFeed caves and opens up to programmatic display. Well, that’s the headline but this is a good step, opening up BuzzFeed to the wider programmatic ecosystem. How soon till people are placing native in those display units ;)? I’m sure more than a few readers are about to, or have already. Notable Stories this Week BuzzFeed just sent out a message to the digital publishing… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
September 1, 2017
email-marketing
email-marketing

Native Tactics #1 Email Newsletters

  Native tactics are simple ways to grow the value and scale of your native content campaigns.   In this blog series, we’ll be featuring tactics that you may or may not currently have in your arsenal, but most definitely should.   Over time, this blog series will feature a bunch of great tactics that you and your team should be utilizing – find them here…   #1 Email Newsletters   First… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
August 31, 2017

Account Executive, Nudge

Native content is the future. All brands are adjusting their marketing communications to content and in turn native. This is a ground floor opportunity to come in and drive the sales of Nudge. Nudge is a native content platform that helps brands understand the impact of their content. The full toolkit ranges from analytics, to distribution optimization to attribution. We even have a CommonSenseBot, a bot that checks content for anything impacting performance. We are seeking an Account Executive to… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
August 28, 2017

This Week in Native Ads 8/25

Another news meaty week, if you didn’t catch WPP earnings (tldr, traditional businesses have slowed spend and WPP hasn’t kept up to date), this means more activity in digital, to catch up. Notable Stories this Week AdYouLike & AppNexus integrate. TripleLift & Drawbridge partner, for cross-device native. Taboola partners with Getty to help improve images. Creative at scale is a big challenge, this… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
August 25, 2017

Nudge’s Executive Notes (AI)

  Artificial intelligence has gained a lot of attention over the last decade, but based on Google Trends search data, it wasn’t until the autumn of 2016 that the hype really lifted…   …Today, we already see this in things like AI music recommendations, flight simulators and driverless cars.   Our initial experiments at Nudge, hints at the intelligence layer we’re building, and the latest addition to the dashboard has been our Executive Notes. Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
August 24, 2017