Tag Archives: native advertising

Mixed Reviews For CNET Reviews ‘Reborn As Ads’

As the hardtracking has endlessly noted, Web publishers are on native advertising like Brown on Williamson. Example Umpteen (via Digiday): The Newest in Native: Editorial Reviews Reborn as Ads This past April, CNET senior editor Jessica Dolcourt reviewed the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. … Continue reading

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Wired Magazine Also Journo-Listing To The Native Ad Side

As the hardtracking has previously noted, web publishers are increasingly employing journalists to create ads in sheep’s clothing, also known as native advertising. Now add Wired Magazine to the ranks of rank sell-outs. From Adweek (tip o’ the pixel to Taylor Wray) . … Continue reading

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Websites Draft Editorial Staffs To Craft Native Advertising

Native advertising/sponsored content/brand journalism is all the webrage these days, and media sites are falling all over themselves to figure out the best way to provide stealth marketing to advertisers. Now Digg this (via Digiday): Native Ads: The Digg Way For … Continue reading

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The Sneak in Review: Sponsored Content Ads ‘n’ Ends

Once around the park, James, and don’t spare the horses. The ‘Dawn’ of a New Documentary Procter & Gamble has launched a seven-part web series called The Big Picture that “showcases how the consumer products giant’s Dawn [dishwashing detergent] is … Continue reading

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Two Views Of The Washington Post’s Sponsored Views

The Washington Post has gone native (advertising). From the Wall Street Journal: Washington Post Opens Online Opinion Pages to Sponsored Content The Washington Post said on Wednesday that it would let special-interest groups and others buy space on online opinion pages … Continue reading

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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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