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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).

Diamond jewels representing luxury brands in native advertising
Diamond jewels representing luxury brands in native advertising
Reports

A Snapshot of Luxury in the Native Advertising Space

  Luxury advertisers have been slow to adapt to new technologies and advertising methods.   For a long time, they’ve opted to stick with what they know; print placements in the ‘right’ magazines where they feel reassured by the company they keep with other brands, i.e. brand safe environments.   With growing pressure from millennials to adapt to digital channels, the shift towards adoption has started.   We’ve picked out a few… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
April 27, 2017
Optimize Native Content Campaigns on the fly
Optimize Native Content Campaigns on the fly
Native Advertising

5 Tips to optimize Native Content Campaigns on the fly

  All successful native advertising campaigns have one thing in common – premium content.   However, there’s a misconception that once content has gone live, you can’t improve your outcomes.   As soon as your native content goes live you need to continuously analyze performance data in order to understand what is/isn’t working, and why.   In this post we’re going to let you in on our top 5 tips on… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
April 6, 2017
Time is money
Time is money
Branded Content, Product Updates

Why Real-Time Analytics are Vital for Your Native Advertising Campaigns

  Put yourself in this situation: you have just launched a new campaign and you can see that your content is live, the publishers are distributing it and money is being spent. As an advertiser you’d typically have to wait for a minimum of 24 hours (it’s actually seven days for most advertisers) before you’ve been sent a report from your publisher. This means that you have absolutely no idea how your campaigns are doing, you can’t… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
February 9, 2017
Native Advertising

How to Win at Native Advertising Before You’ve Even Started

  Have you ever wanted to predict the outcome of a native advertising campaign before it’s even been set live? A client of ours recently decided to find out, and so can you. It really doesn’t matter if you’re a veteran in the field of Native Advertising or just getting started – anyone would benefit from doing this.     This particular client of ours placed Nudge across all of their owned… Continue reading

Gustaf Stenlund
Gustaf Stenlund
January 19, 2017
Best of

The Best Native Ads of 2016

What a year it’s been! As we close out the year and look to 2017 here are some of the best examples of native advertising. How did we find these? Each week we share campaigns of the week in This Week in Native Ads and we’ve measured thousands of native campaigns throughout the year. This year picking the best was harder than ever before, the bar has gone up, some of the standards set… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
December 15, 2016
Native Advertising

Comprehensive list of native advertising companies

Native advertising is used to create ads that appear less like ads and more like the content on the page that is being browsed. This form of advertising is used to overcome banner blindness, a phenomenon where website visitors consciously or subconsciously ignore display ads. Native advertising works by matching content and using the trust the audience has for the website that is being viewed. B If you haven’t already, you should consider implementing this hot and incredibly effective form… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
November 17, 2016
Native Advertising

Native Can Convert, Here’s How

Advertising is created to inform & persuade; in a digital universe persuasion is quantifiably measurable. As marketers, we’re programmed to have specific media for specific tasks. Awareness, conversion, etc. But, as we’ve run a lot of campaigns in partnership with publishers and agencies, we’ve found that native content can be actually very powerful at typical “bottom of the funnel” tasks. Nudge sees a range of 1-3% of post-consumption conversion as defined by the client. It’s not a huge surprise but… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
September 22, 2016
Native Advertising

Native Content Best Practices

Make the most of your native content investment by embracing these best practices. Make the brand integral This story couldn’t exist without the brand being present, it should feel natural for the end consumer to make the connection to the brand. A great example of this is a collaboration between Puma and Refinery29. Read our write up here. Content Length Half the battle is getting attention, once someone has decided to click on your content, look to hold it. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
July 25, 2016
Branded Content, Product Updates

The Visible Part of the Invisible Content – Disclosures

  Disclosures – When, Where, and How to Use Them Disclosures within advertising are to inform the readers that the content they’re about to read is an advertisement. Previously, Nudge created a whitepaper regarding disclosures and custom native ads, where the results were surprising. The most common disclosures were ineffective, readers seemed to indicate a banner blindness to the disclosures. Native disclosures have shown to work best for custom native ads (by that we mean when disclosures were in the content)… Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
March 22, 2016
Native Advertising

Native Video Ads Are Here to Stay

The Growing Trend of Native Video Ads. Native Video Ads is a concept that you can find in almost every social media feed today, and it has become a more frequently used term among publishers and advertisers. It’s not only an industry trend, used on all kinds of devices, but also an effective way to reach out to the right targeted audience. As any other native ad, a native video ad blends into the user’s social media feed. The… Continue reading

Amanda-Anna-Caroline
Amanda-Anna-Caroline
March 16, 2016