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
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
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
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
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
Just in time for #BrandBowl52 we’re passing off This Week in Native Ads to Ari Levine, who joined Nudge at the end of 2017 as our CRO. We considered a press release, but figured this would be a bit more Native to Nudge. Ta, Ben (Tap, tap on the mic) Hello, friends of Nudge and fans of Content Marketing, I’m incredibly excited to have joined Ben and the team Nudge, in our mission to… Continue reading
We’re t minus ten days from the Super Bowl, popularly known in our industry as branded content day. Nudge data supports this, with higher than normal engagement on branded content on the day of. More to follow on that next week. Notable stories this week The True Origins of Branded Content > a bit of fun. Adsense now has an option to auto style their native ads. Continue reading
The newsletter has grown quite a bit in the last six months. ? However, some of the new folks don’t necessarily know what Nudge does. Quick pitch from me then, Nudge is a content marketing analytics platform that drives performance for leading brand advertisers and premium publishers. It provides transparency and intelligence for brands seeking to understand, optimize and maximize return on their content investment across multiple publishing partners. Nudge provides verified measurement to empower publishers to drive revenue… Continue reading
Hello 2018 and a happy new year to you! The big news as of right now, is the Facebook announcement: to focus the feed on people shared & created content. Sending publishers into a tizzy. The outtake, as Casey Newton puts, we’re about to find out who has audiences vs traffic. i.e. who has a loyal following and will actually seek them out. A few other outtakes: – Facebook traffic quality has… Continue reading
The final Friday of 2017! As you’re reading this, I’ll be nearing the coast of New Zealand, where the weather looks to be pleasantly sunny. For your Friday ‘lite’ reading, we shared The Best Native of 2017. ^ The defining difference this year is what I touched on in Poynter, native is growing up and getting slick. It’s real, it’s competitive and 2018 is going to be the time to… Continue reading
