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The Native Advertisers Are Restless
Once around the park, James, and don’t spare the sources! The hardtracking staff has started to discern the dawn of Sneak 2.0 – a second wave of stealth marketing that tries to herd the ads in sheep’s clothing into more … Continue reading
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Even Stealth Marketers Don’t Trust Native Ads
The hardtracking staff may soon be out of business if we keep seeing headlines like this one (via MediaPost): Marketers Still Not Sold On Native Advertising Nut graf: What’s really keeping more marketers from going native is a lack of quality … Continue reading
Journalists Screwed Twice by Native Advertisers
So it’s not bad enough that native advertising – those ads in sheep’s clothing tricked out to look like editorial content – is slowly chipping away at the authority and credibility of real journalism. Now it’s also chipping away at … Continue reading