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Campaign of the Week: Five Ways Good Design Can Help Your Business
Good design is good business. Now more than ever this well-worn phrase, coined by long-time IBM Chairman-CEO Thomas Watson Jr., is worth repeating. In an increasingly competitive business landscape, design is the new battleground and the success of your business depends on it.
Source: AdAge
Why we like it:
It’s a great piece, that lines up and extends with what Area17 is about. Great use of the AdAge audience – their exact customers. And we liked how well it performed.
Quote of the Week:
Source: YouTube
News:
Native Advertising Comes to E-Commerce
If digital publishers thought they had native advertising all to themselves, they may want to think again.
Source: AdAge
Native ads work really well, when done really well
BuzzFeed says that for every 10 people that see a native ad, three will share it with friends. That’s free advertising that you can’t get with a banner ad.
Source: itBusiness
Time Inc. Creates Native Ad Group to Forge Programs Across Brands
Time Inc. has created an eight-person unit to focus on native advertising at the publishing company, led by a staffer from the editorial side, Sports Illustrated Group Creative Director Chris Hercik, and another from the business side, Senior VP-Marketing and Sales Development Priya Narang.
Source: AdAge
Study: Sponsored Content Has a Trust Problem
Sponsored content. Paid posts. Partner stories. Whatever you want to call it, it’s drummed up its share of controversy over the past year as the vast majority of publishers have adopted some sort of native advertising offering. The media industry’s echo chamber is teeming with talk of it.
You can view a video about it here on Bloomberg.tv
Source: Contently + Bloomberg.tv
Events
There is a Native Advertising Summit being held by ShareThrough in San Francisco July 22nd. We’ll be there.
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