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Category: Branded Content

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).

Native Advertising vs Banner Ads

The big question, what is the difference between native advertising and banner ads?  Native advertising is an evolution of the banner ad, as the internet has changed to feeds of information and news, ads to get attention have had to change. i.e. think about how Facebook organizes stories for you. This has changed how we browse the internet, we tend to go to a destination, then open lots of links from there. On the measurement side this has meant metrics… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 18, 2016

Native Advertising vs Branded Content

How do you tell the difference between native advertising and branded content? Branded content is where content is developed by the brand, for distribution. Sometimes it is created by an influencer, who shares it with their networks, or shares it on the brands owned networks. i.e. a DJ creates a track for your company and shares it via SoundCloud. Native advertising, is where that content is promoted on other websites, or prominently within the site it is shared on. Think… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 18, 2016

What is the difference between Native Advertising & Content Marketing?

Content Marketing is a strategy, to develop content, that engages customers to deliver on marketing objectives. Typically this is content hosted on own sites and social network profiles. Native advertising, is a promotion tactic, used within content marketing. This is either ads designed to blend into the website they are on, to promote content on the brands website. Or the content is hosted within the website they are being promoted on. Where it gets confusing, is that often, content marketing… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 18, 2016

The challenge of paid content distribution

Content distribution networks do what they say on the label, they distribute your content so you get more eyeballs on it. The big challenge – which everyone wants to know is, what are the quality of those clicks? Often they can be cheap, come from a variety of sources, from high end publishers to viral click sites. Not that this is always the case – but what can you do to ensure you’re getting quality clicks? Bid higher, chances are… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 13, 2016

Why Nudge is the right tool for native

Traditional analytics have been built for optimizing websites, not necessarily content. Even then they’re not comprehensive enough for clients demands. Have you ever found yourself spending hours on a simple request from a client for a report? This post explores the features you need from your native analytics tool so that you can prove ROI to clients, optimize your content to hit targets and save yourself time on each report. Unique Metrics Nudge is focused on paid content so the… Continue reading

Hollie-Blue Allum
Hollie-Blue Allum
January 12, 2016

Native advertising vs Sponsored Content

In our Branded Content and Native Advertising Glossary we define each. Native advertising, describes the overall trend of creating advertising that is designed to fit the form and function of the site it resides on. Sponsored content, similar to paid content, describes content that has been paid for by a brand. Content may or may not be directly related to the brand. You would say Sponsored Content is a type of Native Advertising, colloquially it… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 11, 2016

How does native advertising work?

Native advertising is ads that are designed to fit the form and function of the websites they exist in. You can see some examples here. How do they work? For in-feed type ad units, the campaign set up process goes like this: A URL or piece of content is put in to a native ad generator, which generates a customized ad, or multiple variations, that will fit across different sites and devices. This is then ad-served by a native ad… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
January 7, 2016

The Best of the Best Native Ads 2015

It’s been a big year for native advertising and the content which drives the industry. Each week we feature a campaign of the week, so we thought we’d end the year with a summary of the best of the best we’ve seen. Visit Intel by Nudge, a platform which has all of the world’s branded content organized in one place. Most Creative: Cocainenomics by WSJ for Netflix Netflix & WSJ smashed it out of the… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
December 17, 2015

How to track & measure paid content with Nudge

So, you’re probably looking for a solution, that goes above and beyond what your core analytics suite has offered, to track and measure your sponsored content. And this is exactly what Nudge has built, a purpose built toolkit for tracking, measuring and optimizing your paid [native] content. Traditional analytics have been built for optimizing websites, not necessarily content. Even then they’re not comprehensive enough for clients demands. Have you ever found yourself spending hours on a simple request from a… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
December 8, 2015

A Beauty Category – Native Research Report

At Nudge we create research reports into Native content within all categories to find out which content styles and publishers perform the best. It’s a chance to see what others are doing within your category and take learnings for your next campaign. Nudge is a native analytics tool that allows you to go beyond the click and transform your paid content campaigns. Find out more here: giveitanudge.com For reviewing all content we’ve used the Nudge diagnostic. This is a tool… Continue reading

Therese Bengtsson
Therese Bengtsson
December 2, 2015