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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

B2B Memes

So when DVorkin talks about integrating his advertisers’ content-marketing efforts into the Forbes brand, I worry that he’s really talking about advertorial. AdVoice, he says, is “a fully transparent way for marketers to publish and curate content on Forbes.com and in our magazine.”. But is transparency an adequate defense?

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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

B2B Memes

So when DVorkin talks about integrating his advertisers’ content-marketing efforts into the Forbes brand, I worry that he’s really talking about advertorial. AdVoice, he says, is “a fully transparent way for marketers to publish and curate content on Forbes.com and in our magazine.”. But is transparency an adequate defense?

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Short Copy vs. Long Copy — Which Converts the Best?

Anyword

Some could say that longer copy in reference to advertising started as magazine advertorials or direct mail ads. Here are just a few examples of how longer copy can benefit your business or campaigns: Answer more questions and address more objections. So what is long copy exactly? What Are the Benefits of Long Copy?

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Where Do Business Goals Fit in a Storified Content Strategy?

Content Standard

But each piece of content takes a similar approach: it prioritizes business goals over content quality, resulting in a website that is overloaded with branding. Compared to the first scenario, where business-minded branding overwhelmed the site and its visitors, this alternative website features no business features at all.

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Can Focusing on Content Marketing Help the ASJA Survive?

Contently

Appropriately, the story ran in the latest issue of ASJA Magazine—the organization’s print publication that was upgraded during his watch. It was founded as the New York-centric Society of Magazine Writers in 1948. According to Cleaver, content marketing is a new name for a traditional format: the custom magazine.

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3 Ways Brands Can Make Native Advertising More Effective in 2017

Contently

Although native advertising has an ancestor in the advertorials that ran decades ago in print magazines, the current ads that appear on publisher sites have a unique format. A native ad that GE sponsored in Business Insider, for instance, interested 80 percent of consumers and did not mention GE at all.

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The State of Native Advertising: Are Pinterest’s Paid Promotions a Bad Idea?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Author: Maggie Jones Last Thursday, Pinterest announced it would follow in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter, experimenting with paid promotions from a “select group of businesses.” While advertorials are still widely used, the decline of print media has given rise to a new type of native advertising: digitally integrated ads.