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State Of The Cuisinart Marketing: BuzzFeed Hits Purée

Big takeout in New York mag this week on BuzzFeed and its forays into the frontiers of native advertising/sponsored content/commerce journalism. Does BuzzFeed Know the Secret? Jonah Peretti’s viral-content machine purports to have solved the problems of both journalism and advertising at … Continue reading

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New York Times Catches Up (Sort Of) To Sneak Adtack

For months now the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has been on sponsored content like Brown on Williamson. Now the New York Times has jumped on the brandwagon. Sponsors Now Pay for Online Articles, Not Just Ads Articles in a series on Mashable.com … Continue reading

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Google’s Newest Search Results: Sponsored Content

From our State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing desk The Googletron will not be pwned! From Search Engine Land: As News Publications Experiment With Sponsored Content, Google Says Keep It Out Of Google News News publications having “sponsored content “deals are on the rise, and Google’s apparently … Continue reading

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Here’s How You Handle Sponsored Content

The hardtracking staff has written ad(!) nauseum about how deceptive the new wave of branded content in general and native advertising in particular tends to be. Not so in the case of media maven Jim Romenesko. Sponsored content posts on his blog are no ads in sheep’s clothing. Here’s … Continue reading

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Getting Restless About Native Advertising

Turns out it’s not just the hardtracking staff that thinks native advertising is a menace to editorial integrity. Exhibit A This piece headlined “What the Atlantic learned from Scientology: native advertising is harder for news brands” in the aptly named paidContent: At an ad … Continue reading

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BuzzFeed Makes Branded Content Even Sneakier

From our Native Advertising Goes Ever More Native desk  Lately the hardtracking staff has tried to be on branded content like Brown on Williamson, but as fast as we can write them up, the journo-marketing complex has gotten more, well, complex. Among … Continue reading

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State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing (III): Mercedes-Benz Drives Content At The Atlantic

From our Native Advertising desk Advertising Age is on the branded content beat like Brown on Williamson. Exhibit A: Native Advertising: Media Savior or Just the New Custom Campaign? Publishers and Marketers Seek Solutions Beyond the Traditional Display Ads If you’re having … Continue reading

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State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing: How To Blur The Line Between Advertising And Editorial Content

Once upon a time, there was a bright line between advertising and editorial content/entertainment. As in, here’s where the news content stops and the advertising starts; or here’s where the entertainment programming stops and the advertising starts. No more. Marketers … Continue reading

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