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An archive of our newsletter. This Week in Native Ads was a curated weekly newsletter to help make you smarter on all things native, branded content and the shifts in marketing. It evolved to just the Nudge Newsletter as the native ad industry grew.
I was chatting with a smart marketer earlier this week, who was was saying the industry is over indexed on targeting but under indexed on accountability. ^ He’s not wrong! Next week I’ll be taking a break, as I decompress with the family. So catch you, till then enjoy this week in native. Notable Stories this Week Some food for thought from PSFK, why advertising is more from digital to experience first. 80% of global… Continue reading
BuzzFeed’s new Twitter show AM to DM announced 1m viewers this week – but unclear as to how ‘long’ people were watching. Even they don’t know! This is the problem of our times. My take -> that’s probably 1million appearances in the stream, which based on Facebook’s CPM would only yield BuzzFeed $150 in earnings. Or another way, cost a brand $150 plus Facebooks margin to buy those ‘views’. Now I’ve stringed… Continue reading
AdWeek madness has ensued so I’ve had to put some extra elbow grease to sort through the noise. Before we go too far, this week we announced Nudge 3.0, the next wave of our platform with predictive intelligence of content performance & audience interaction, more here and here. Notable Stories this Week The Financial Times discovers up to $1.3m/month in fraudulent inventory being sold on ‘exchanges… Continue reading
[Via Twitter] Hunter Walk shares early data on his Medium earnings. Reminds me of the early days of Kindle Lending, where there was a fixed pool of cash divided by not many reads, so each was worth a lot more. Keen to see how this unfolds. As a reminder, here’s more on Mediums pivot away from ads. Notable Stories this Week This is a great interview with… Continue reading
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
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
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
This week yielded a few data points from an IPSOS + Polar study on the impact of native content, keep them handy for your next pitch deck. I riff on how we need to push creativity in native and we see more publishers doubling down on video. Notable Stories this Week Hyatt pulls back on its branded content partnership with The Atlantic, focused on inclusion, after events of last weekend they… Continue reading
Google starts to put pressure on publishers with bad ad experiences ahead of its Google Chrome ad filter. Step in step with their native roll outs. Outtake, ad blocking has only really driven more revenue to the big guys. Even Facebook’s desktop ad revenue stalled, till it started blocking the ad blockers. Related Facebook makes moves to not bill for accidental clicks. My outtake, the fight is on for incremental growth. The opportunity? New places where ads could go. Continue reading
My final week in NZ, it’s a market in the state of rapid catch up, some conversations -> it’s growing rapidly, others are about to flip the switch. Heading back to the northern hemisphere, where it’s been a bit quiet the last week or so. However, I have pulled together a few recent stories, highlighting developments in the Indian market. Notable Stories this Week Refinery moves branded content further down the funnel by retargeting post… Continue reading
