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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

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Prediction: Native Advertising Will Eat the Net

Well that didn’t take long, did it? Via MediaPost: Native Advertising Predicted To Dominate Digital In 2014 Say goodbye to the stigma associated with native advertising. Following The New York Times’ official embrace of the once-controversial ad format, J.P. Morgan is predicting … Continue reading

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Apparently ‘Ethical Native Advertising’ Is Not an Oxymoron

The hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack rarely has anything good to say about native advertising, those ads in sheep’s clothing that trick out marketing material as editorial content. But here’s the exception that proves the rule. From FishbowlNY: Daily News Secretary … Continue reading

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Native Advertising Isn’t All That Viral? No Matter – It’s Still Dangerous

Smart piece in Adweek about the virality of native advertising. Native Advertising Wasn’t Really So Viral in 2013 New Sharethrough report shows how few sponsored stories popped  Are we so sure that all this sponsored content is worth the trouble? Native advertising … Continue reading

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Public Editor Brands NYT’s Branded Content a ‘Delicate Balance’

As the hardtracking staff previously noted, the New York Times has been preparing to jump into the native advertising pool along with the rest of the sink-or-swim set. According to Advertising Age, the recently installed Times executive VP of advertising, Meredith Kopit … Continue reading

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Vanity Fair – or Foul? – in Native Advertising Launch

Say hello to yet another mainstream publisher that’s gone native (advertising). From today’s New York Times: A Message That Tries to Blend In AS Madison Avenue continues debating the pros and cons of a hot trend in marketing known as native … Continue reading

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Our 2013 ‘State of the Cuisinart Marketing’ Address

Recipe for marketing in the 21st Century: Ingredients 1 part news 1 part entertainment 1 part advertising Directions Combine in blender. Hit puree. Serves: Everyone but the Jurassic types who think you have a right to know when you’re being advertised … Continue reading

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Ad Age Wants It Both Ways On Stealth Marketing

Last week’s edition of Ad Age (cover: Don’t Call It Advertising – It’s Content Marketing) highlighted the growing influence of sponsored content on the journalism world, and in the process caught up to what the hardtracking staff has been saying for the past … Continue reading

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FTC To Go Negative On Native Advertising?

The hardtracking staff has been negligent in, well, tracking developments in stealth marketing over the past few weeks. So, the missing links. From Digiday: The New Yorker Goes Native In January, when the Atlantic ran sponsored content on behalf of Scientology, … Continue reading

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NYT’s David Carr Catches Up To Sneak Adtack

The hardtracking staff yields to no man in its admiration for New York Times media critic David Carr, whose columns are invariably insightful and informative. Regarding his piece in Monday’s Times, though – frankly, we were there first. But Carr did a nice … Continue reading

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