All of our branded content, native advertising and paid, custom, sponsored content content.
Notable content includes How branded content drives business outcomes, The Best Native of 2021 (and the six years prior 20,19,18,17,16,15).
This post includes all the work featured in our newsletter this year. Make sure you subscribe to get all the latest. The work is ordered top to bottom from oldest to newest. You can view all old newsletters here. Background We’ve been highlighting the best branded content since 2015. Find more inspirational pieces from previous years here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015. In 2023 we… Continue reading
This post includes all the work featured in our newsletter this year. Make sure you subscribe to get all the latest. Background We’ve been highlighting the best branded content since 2015. Find more inspirational pieces from previous years here: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015. Agencies, brands & publishers use Nudge to measure the performance of their branded content initiatives, if you would like to learn more… Continue reading
I thought I’d put together a few notes on things that surprised me, when running branded content campaigns. Little learnings or tidbits which may be helpful. Brand disclosures and calls to action make a piece of content more effective. They don’t ruin a good piece of content, if you think they’ve made a good piece of content bad it probably wasn’t that good to begin with. Guaranteed reach with external distribution is usually some cheap traffic, which you probably don’t… Continue reading
Each year since 2015 we have posted examples of the best branded content & native advertising executions. Within these are some of the best content hubs. If you have a content hub, and you’d like to improve it. You could start with analytics. Imagine there was an analytics platform catered to the art & science of content, that’s Nudge. Update for 2025, check out the Intelligence Era solutions for helping brands show the impact of their content-led… Continue reading
Each week in our newsletter we share the latest info we find. This post collates those for the year. 30% of consumers believe that paid content is higher quality than free content, while 10% say free content is higher quality. 25% of consumers have more trust in publications that require a subscription, while 13% trust publications that are free to access more. [On creator content] An average lift of 5 points in brand familiarity, 9 points… Continue reading
We’ve been highlighting the best branded content since 2015. Find more inspirational pieces from previous years here: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015. What you are seeing, are the select pieces we feature in our weekly newsletter. Subscribing to that is the easiest way to keep on top of the best work. To measure the success of your branded content & native advertising, try Nudge. … Continue reading
Sponsored content plays a vital role in the media mix. But often requires nuance in measuring it, determining its success and ROI to the campaign. To measure sponsored content, requires specialist analytics, like Nudge. Using tracking code, embedded in the content. Then enables real time analytics on the performance of the sponsored content. Example of a sponsored content dashboard collecting data & insights. Getting access to the data in real time means advertisers can adjust media mix… Continue reading
Custom content is by definition custom and hard to put into a regular bucket. Yet it provides a vital role in any advertising campaign. The custom parts can be the home, or the hub, or help fill gaps in the media plan. To measure custom content, requires specialist analytics, like Nudge. Using tracking code, embedded in the content. Then enables real time analytics on the performance of the custom content. Example of a custom content dashboard collecting data &… Continue reading
The difference is that content marketing doesn’t have to have the brand present in the content. Branded content typically needs the brand present for it to exist. Branded content is defined as, content that is made for the express purpose of promoting a brand. If you took the brand out, the content couldn’t exist. Content marketing as, content created to educate, entertain or inform a brands potential and existing customers. The brand may or may not be essential in that… Continue reading
Measuring the success of branded content is not as hard you may think. I like to try boil it down to three things. How many people did I reach What was the quality of that reach? What did they do next? Our approach at Nudge, is to help simplify your job, we help you identify the best content with content measurement, then get more eyeballs on that content through insights. It’s content measurement and analytics in a box. Continue reading
