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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.

Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 5/10

One big thing The untold story in the duopoly discussion is how brands feed them data, from their owned channels. How does this happen? Via the Facebook pixel, or any Google pixel, on brands owned sites/content. Interest, retargeting, lookalike audiences are informed up and shared with other advertisers. Why is this important now? With Google Chrome’s changes this week to privacy controls (mimicking Apple) and the ecosystem shifting more towards privacy. These signals provide EVEN… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
May 10, 2019
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 5/3

It’s NewFronts this week, with all sorts of announcements. What sticks? We’ll see as we go through the year. The thing that really stood out to me was Conde Nast announcing 175 pilots. That’s putting the idea of throwing ideas on the wall to see what sticks to the extreme. Are there really 175 concepts that can be reasonably tested this year? Why not 40, why not 10? It just seems terribly wasteful. Notable… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
May 3, 2019
Verizon Media CEO, K. Guru Gowrappan
Verizon Media CEO, K. Guru Gowrappan
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 4/26

It’s Jess taking over for Ben while he’s away in New Zealand! I’m the Brand and Sales Associate here at Nudge. You’ve probably heard from me in your inbox once (or a couple of times) before. When I’m not trying to tell you about the benefits of implementing Nudge, I’m thinking about my relationship with technology … read my latest thought piece here. Here are the stories that caught my attention this… Continue reading

Jessica Toib
Jessica Toib
April 26, 2019
medium-evolution
medium-evolution
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 4/19

Colin Nagy of creative shop FF here covering for Ben while he is down in NZ. A quick insight to lead off the newsletter this week: it has been fascinating to watch how much migration there has been in recent months to small, niche private networks. Just at the beginning of the web when interest groups self-organized around topics and passions on message boards and forums, the same seems to be happening… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
April 19, 2019
google chrome
google chrome
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 4/12

There will be a little bit of a hiatus for two weeks as I travel down under. One big thing I admire the cheekiness and creativity of Juan, remixing vines on YouTube, to continue making money from the content. Permissions here are a problem. But for an enterprising mind, there are lots of ways to pursue your passion, on your own terms. Most of us in this newsletter are in the industry weeds but it is pretty neat that… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
April 12, 2019
google-chrome-tough-spot-content-2019
google-chrome-tough-spot-content-2019
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 4/5

One big thing Google is in a difficult place with Chrome, Safari has ITP (privacy protection), as does Firefox and if they don’t level set, they risk losing market share. Such a change would threaten a lot of ad tech, especially anything that relies on third party cookies. AdWeek has a piece on how they’re between a rock and hard place, and AdExchanger digs in to what it could look like. Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
April 5, 2019
building-a-robot
building-a-robot
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 3/29

Digital Content NewFronts is coming up, if readers have invites, would love to join a couple more sessions. 🙂 One big thing There were a lot of smirks this week about Apple News+. But Apple is smart, especially at research and consumer segmentation. There will be more than enough people who don’t presently subscribe to anything, that bat away subscription notifications, who will be interested. Like HBO you just need three or four titles to… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
April 3, 2019
Instagram launches in-app purchasing
Instagram launches in-app purchasing
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 3/22

Each week, we look through the stories, and it is a balance of programmatic vs native vs content vs media. But since we started the newsletter, these have all become intertwined (which is a good thing). I just wanted to call that out, for those that might have been wondering if we were covering less of one or another. The market is maturing and evolving. As evidenced by some of the stats below. Berlin readers, our own… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
April 3, 2019
BuzzFeed's print edition
BuzzFeed's print edition
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 3/8

One big thing Will everything online move to a pure pay for performance model? It strikes me that as retargeting has taken a hit on publisher revenues it’s been buoyed by affiliate content drives. This precision reduces the take but will keep focus on what actually works. Notable stories this week Mark Zuckerberg penned quite the long piece on privacy. It is worth reading, to get it straight from the source. ^ Unrelated but at… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 8, 2019
What happened to Red Bull?
What happened to Red Bull?
This Week in Native Ads

This Week in Native Ads 3/1

The Ligatus acquisition might have snuck under your radar but this is notable consolidation in Europe. For American readers they are the TripleLift or ShareThrough of Europe (headcount of 180 vs 230) but they’d already been acquired by Bertelsmann the publishing/broadcasting group. This is much more common in Europe. The deal was for stock. So why would an already exited player onsell and for stock? Likely CPMs guarantees on deals were under pressure from ITP and fearing a more competitive… Continue reading

Ben Young
Ben Young
March 1, 2019