Native Ad Talks NYC – Creating Great Branded Content

Native Ad Talks NYC – Creating Great Branded Content

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The Native Ad Talks bring together players from a variety of perspectives who are involved the Native Advertising Ecosystem. Publishers, agencies and tech solutions alike aim to answer all queries related to this burgeoning form of advertising. The second NYC based Native Ad Talks focused on topic of producing branded content. Our panelists broke down the key ingredients to a successful branded content campaign. Giving the journalists’ and publishers’ perspectives, the panel featured Adam Aston (@adamanyc) of The New York Times and Joe Lazauskas (@JoeLazauskas) of Contently. Moderated by Lucia Moses (@lmoses) of Digiday Below are our Key Takeaways from …

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AdWeek Europe 2015 Recap: How Native Programmatic Advertising is Reshaping the Media Landscape

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The Ad-Tech industry has long debated how native advertising will scale – could native ever combine with programmatic to reach its full potential? At Advertising Week Europe 2015, we hosted a panel of industry experts; asking them how they believe the coming-of-age of native programmatic will affect the industry as a whole.  Here are some of the key take-aways of the discussion… Native Engagement Mike Harty talked about In-Feed ads as “an execution rendering the ad to look – with advertising disclosure – like it belongs in the stream of content on the host site.” By injecting content into the …

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Mike Harty in ExchangeWire, March 2015: The Highlights

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Last month, our Co-Founder Mike Harty talked to Ronan Shields at ExchangeWire about the growth of native, adding value to the user experience and the benefits of standardization. Here’s a digest of the best bits… On native growth: “…what is abundantly clear is that both advertisers and publishers are heavily adopting Native. According to the IAB, spend hit £216m in the first half of 2014. Furthermore according to AOP figures, publishers have now identified Native as their principal new business opportunity. Combined, this shows the rapidly growing appetite and opportunity in Native from both buyers and sellers.” “Native advertising is …

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Measuring Branded Content Engagement: Understanding Bounce Rate’s Fine Print

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GUEST BLOG WRITTEN BY VITALY PECHERSKIY, CO-FOUNDER AND COO OF STACKADAPT. Follow Vitaly (@vitalypecherski) and StackAdapt (@StackAdapt) on Twitter.  The Custom Content Council estimates that nearly $44bn will be spent on branded content this year (The Guardian). A big topic of discussion is not only content creation, but also content distribution. When it comes to distribution, the important questions to consider are, have you reached the right audience with this content and has the content produced the desired impact? While the topic of reaching the right audience is fundamental to this discussion, here we’ll focus on the one metric that …

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How to Win at Native: Four Tips to Get You Started

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GUEST BLOG WRITTEN BY BEN YOUNG, CEO OF NUDGE ANALYTICS.  Follow Ben (@bwagy) and Nudge (@Giveitanudge) on Twitter.  Last week, we hosted our inaugural native ad panel in partnership with PowerLinks. This month, we focused on how to win at native through distribution. While planning, we realized this is the first event that many of our attendees would have seen on the topic, so we would be best to keep it practical. Shareen Pathak at DigiDay was first to come onboard as our moderator. As Agency & Brands Editor at DigiDay her focus is what do brands care about. This …

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WATCH: Mike Harty on the Big Data panel at IAA 75th Anniversary Leadership Forum

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At the IAA Leadership Forum 2013, a panel of assembled advertising industry technology experts discuss the various developments around big data, small data and metrics. The panel, including Mark Bulling, Lead Custom Insights, Facebook;  Simon Halstead, Director Microsoft Advertising Exchange, EMEA, Microsoft and Mike Harty, the co-founder and CIO of PowerLinks, discuss the future of data, short and long term strategies and best practices. What is data now? What does success look like for the companies that are harnessing and leveraging their data resources? Watch the video to find out.

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5 Key Factors Shaping the Native Advertising Landscape

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Just over a year ago, the captains of the media industry gathered in Palm Springs for the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting 2014. Incoming Chairman Vivek Shah took to the stage announcing the 20th birthday of the banner ad—a landmark moment providing pause for reflection. Faced with the devaluation of the digital economy’s mainstay, the agenda was clear…the industry must collaborate to tackle the challenges of fraud, adopt progressive metrics including viewability measurement and “insist on more creativity and less clutter”. Running in parallel with the sobering realities of declining display CPMs, a new initiative was gathering momentum. Innovators including Facebook, …

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Native Strategy: Learning from the Mistakes of Display

Native Strategy: Learning from the Mistakes of Display

Native advertising gives us a chance to re-write the online advertising rulebook by allowing us to come up with de-facto industry solutions and standards that will restore faith in online advertising across all major stakeholders. Identifying the Challenges As we prepare to enter 2015, it is clear that display advertising is increasingly suffering from an image problem. It is plagued by fraud and low creative standards. Traditional display advertising is becoming a dinosaur in an increasingly “˜mobile first’ world, where often the real estate simply does not exist in which to serve traditional banner ads. It is also undermined by …

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Programmatic Native: Making It Work For Everyone

After a year of debating the definition and musing over its potential, native advertising has finally found its place in the digital advertising ecosystem. Publishers are steadily adopting this new revenue stream and countless advertisers are eagerly exploring the opportunity. This rapid growth has caused fragmentation in the native marketplace, leading to limitations of scale, standardization and diversity. What has caused native advertising to gain such traction? Does it work for every player in the landscape? And how can we overcome the teething problems to realize the full potential of native? The broader appeal of Native Native advertising is drawing …

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Publishers: 5 Considerations for your Native Advertising Strategy

In today’s ever evolving ad marketplace with razor thin margins, publishers are constantly pressed to find the best short term and long term monetization opportunities. Native advertising continues to provide accretive revenue opportunities to large and small premium publishers. According to a study by Hexagram””62% of publishers have utilized some kind of native advertising and the revenue continues to grow exponentially year over year (BIA Kelsey). Recently, New York Times reported a 16.5% growth in digital ad revenue””much of which was driven by native advertising. Being that native advertising is relatively young and there are already over 50 companies dedicated …

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