B2B Memes

JULY 1, 2010

In other words, an advertorial. When I was in traditional publishing, I fought to set limits to advertorials, but ultimately had to tolerate them. In my liberated state, though, I can finally say it: Advertorials are evil. When I say advertorial , I’m not talking about all sponsored content that appears in a publication. Well, advertorial is like an evil twin, lurking in a vague netherworld between or above or below journalism and content marketing.

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B2B Memes

AUGUST 10, 2012

So when DVorkin talks about integrating his advertisers’ content-marketing efforts into the Forbes brand, I worry that he’s really talking about advertorial. Related posts: Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial. Is Lewis DVorkin a visionary or a sell-out? I can never quite make up my mind. That’s never more true than when he writes about content marketing, as he did last Monday.

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B2B Memes

AUGUST 10, 2012

So when DVorkin talks about integrating his advertisers’ content-marketing efforts into the Forbes brand, I worry that he’s really talking about advertorial. Related posts: Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial. Is Lewis DVorkin a visionary or a sell-out? I can never quite make up my mind. That’s never more true than when he writes about content marketing, as he did last Monday.

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Hubspot

JUNE 1, 2015

Growing your website traffic through your blog is a great thing-- until thinly-veiled advertorials infiltrate your content. Advertorials are an advertisement disguised as an editorial; they are articles that appear to be informational but are actually intended to promote a product or service. The biggest problem with advertorials is that they hurt your company’s credibility and turn away interested website visitors.

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Biznology

JANUARY 27, 2017

Surely one missing element in what we used to call “advertorials” is the absence of a genuine, humanized brand voice. Remember blogging for business? Better still blogging by brands? A great deal of what we now call “content marketing” can be traced back to basic business blogging where a brand built audiences by attracting informed search to valuable, relevant content.

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Marketing Craftmanship

JULY 5, 2013

Under his regime of “creative confrontation,” Schmertz applied a number of innovative and controversial tactics including: Introduction of modern-day advocacy advertising, or “advertorials,” which first appeared on the OpEd page of the New York Times in 1970. The Mobil advertorials eventually were published weekly in several leading daily newspapers over the course of three decades, and serve as the template for what the PR profession now calls thought leadership.

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Marketing Craftmanship

MARCH 27, 2013

The evolution of white papers from bona fide content into self-serving advertorials has been validated by vertical industry trade publications, in which companies, for a fee, are permitted to “feature” their white papers in a special section. Have Marketers Killed This B2B Golden Goose?

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Marketing Craftmanship

DECEMBER 30, 2013

And it always includes exposure in advertorials (regardless of the sponsoring publication’s stature) and feature articles in pay-to-play vanity publications…because you gain no credible 3 rd party validation. The attribution is unsupported, but Albert Einstein is often credited with the quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.”

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Everything Technology Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2012

In contrast, the least commonly used content marketing tactics are advertorials (11 percent), community management & threading (12 percent), and virtual events (18 percent Here is another sneak preview of the new B2B Content Marketing Report that will be released later this month. We asked over 30,000 members of the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their most popular content marketing tactics.

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

What does Google think about advertorials, native advertising, and editorial content? An advertorial is another word for a paid editorial written for advertising purposes. The Google webmaster team views advertorials as deceptive when they lack transparency about their marketing intent. B2B marketers shouldn’t disregard advertorials, but instead look to the broader (non-SEO) impacts they stand to gain such as building brand recognition and driving leads.

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Single Grain

JULY 9, 2021

Since native ads campaigns almost always target cold audiences, many native advertisers tend to use “advertorials,” a mix of a landing page with a sales letter ( here are a few examples ). Are they using advertorials?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Less advertorial. More conversational, less advertorial. Here’s where I think B2B sales and marketing video is headed this year. More conversational. More formats. More interactive. I think the traditional categories of testimonial, webinar, explainer, etc. are becoming less relevant. What’s important is using the medium effectively. Here are a few ideas for different kinds of video.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Related posts: Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial? Writing last week for the Nieman Journalism Lab , Ken Doctor analyzed “ The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch. ” It should be required reading for every B2B journalist and publisher. In identifying the key aspects and implications of the business news startup from Atlantic Media , Doctor touched on a number of key points for any business-oriented publication.

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Liveintent

JULY 6, 2022

These units are similar to an advertorial but come in various formats. What are display ads? Display ads are text, image, or video advertisements in the digital, online space.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Related posts: Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial? Writing last week for the Nieman Journalism Lab , Ken Doctor analyzed “ The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch. ” It should be required reading for every B2B journalist and publisher. In identifying the key aspects and implications of the business news startup from Atlantic Media , Doctor touched on a number of key points for any business-oriented publication.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Even print-based advertorials, where the intent should clearly be understood as promotion, were considered of higher quality (at least by those surveyed), than all but one of the four forms of digital publication choices offered. Earlier this month, MarketingSherpa’s chart of the week covered survey results on the types of content sources B2B marketers trust most, as they pertained to the quality of the source publishing third-party contributed content.

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Scoop.it

MAY 7, 2019

The roots of content marketing have been around since before the Internet – with what is now called the “advertorial.” Content marketing as it is typically used today is the Internet version of the advertorial. If you’ve spent any time reading digital marketing blogs in the past few years, you have probably heard the buzzwords “content marketing” and “sales automation” mentioned.

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Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A few examples of traditional demand generation (if viewed in the light of outbound strategy) would be cold calling (telemarketing), email marketing, print advertorials, trade shows etc. Demand Generation and Inbound marketing: The new couple in town! There are lots of articles that compare demand generation (as an outbound marketing strategy) and inbound marketing only to give a gold medal in marketing Olympics to the latter.

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RebelMouse

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Google says that “advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that include links that pass ranking credit, or links with optimized anchor text in articles, guest posts, or press releases distributed on other sites” will be considered as link spam.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

One example of native advertising is advertorials found on BuzzFeed or Forbes sponsored by brands. Con: While ad blockers can’t block advertorials, they can block the paid placements that direct people to the branded content. Ad blocking has been a super hot topic in marketing this year. And become the hottest topic in marketing the last week or so as Apple released the latest mobile OS for iPhones and iPads that allows mobile ad blockers.

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Onalytica B2B

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

So, in order for a brand to market to Millennials they must not only know who their influencers are, but they must look to engage with them in an organic way as Millennials hold the ability to see through sponsored posts and paid for advertorial amongst influencers.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Because these new types of publishers want to avoid “clunky advertorial, laden with overt brand value and PR messages,” they will be hiring experienced journalists to build an audience of loyal customers. In a blog post today, Ian Burrell, the media editor for The Independent offered fresh evidence that, at least in the UK, the growth of brand journalism (i.e., journalists moving into content marketing ) is more than theoretical.

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Digital B2B Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Print Advertorials. Too some, this is just the granddaddy of today’s native advertising, but print advertorials continue to allow much more of a sales spin than many publications will accept as a sponsored post or native published article. A number of B2B trade publications offer the email equivalent of an advertorial, allowing you to share an entire article or perspective in email instead of an additional click away.

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BOP Design

MAY 21, 2018

Advertorial Content in Disguise. That’s not valuable content (unless it’s on a sales brochure), that’s an advertorial! We cannot wait to see advertorial content that masquerades as helpful, educational content die. An alternative to advertorials: Instead of listing the features and benefits of a product or service, focus your content on understanding the end user’s problem or pain point and give away information to help them solve or address it.

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Only B2B

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The famous Wall Street advertorial used storytelling and sold $2 billion worth of subscriptions and ran from 1975-2003. Finally, 5 things in email marketing campaign which actually work. We can only wish this was true, but we have all been there thinking about – Why doesn’t my email marketing campaigns generate results? My readers don’t seem to open my emails! frustration*. But, email marketing has the highest ROI of all marketing channels. They are like the elixirs of marketing.

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LeadsRX

MARCH 21, 2022

But the advent of smart phones and time-shifted TV viewing habits changed the landscape of top-of-funnel marketing, and the TV advertorials stopped generating the profits they once enjoyed.

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Contently

APRIL 9, 2018

people largely treated content marketing as a euphemism for things that have been around for a long time: custom publishing, advertorials, owned media. I have done hundreds of interviews in the eight years that have passed since I co-founded Contently. And every time, without fail, the interviewer asks me, “What is the definition of content marketing?”

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BOP Design

JUNE 20, 2018

These are the types of blog posts your company should avoid creating: Advertorials. This is how advertorials often make readers feel. Stay away from creating advertorials that have a salesy angle and only discuss your firm’s products or services. As you build out the editorial calendar for your B2B blogging and content marketing strategy , it’s important to understand who your target audience is and what they want to read.

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Writing on the Web

AUGUST 2, 2011

Landing Pages: Where to Publish Your Advertorial. How do you get readers to take action? Short answer: a landing page. Also known as a sales page, squeeze page). You can’t get results from all the content you’re creating and publishing on your blog, e-newsletter, social media sites, unless eventually you send people to a landing page and ask them to take action. Otherwise, you may be creating a great brand, great thought leadership, great content… and so what?

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 1, 2014

What About Advertorials? Advertorials (IMPORTANT). What are Advertorials? Last week we wrote a best practice guideline for a client, on how to acquire quality links in today’s SEO environment. In preparation, I wanted to review a history of changes and shifts we’ve experienced and also validate, through third party and search-specific references, why we recommend certain tactics and best practices.

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Anyword

APRIL 12, 2022

His expertise lay in “advertorials,” ads written in a format that mimics a newspaper article. Copywriters don’t just write interesting stuff – they often lead interesting lives as well.

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Biznology

JULY 5, 2016

I know I have been a little dark-hearted over the last few years when it came to earned media outreach and how it’s been corrupted by ubiquitous bought-and-paid-for reviews, essentially pro-company advertorials. As I mentioned last month in Influencer Marketing Tools of the Trade , Dan Krueger and I are in the midst of an earned-media blogger outreach campaign on behalf of Skinny & Co.

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Liveintent

MAY 14, 2021

Native ads are similar to an advertorial but come in a variety of formats. What are native ads? Native ads are ads that match their environment or surroundings. The three main types of native ad formats are branded content native ads, in-feed native ads, and content recommendation native ads.

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Anyword

JANUARY 12, 2022

Some could say that longer copy in reference to advertising started as magazine advertorials or direct mail ads. Depending on who you ask, the answer to “Which is best: short or long copy?” might sound a little different.

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 23, 2010

Landing Pages: Where to Publish Your Advertorial. If you want to learn about formatting sales and landing pages using Wordpress , please register for the free Webinar I’m hosting Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4 p.m. I’m interviewing Suzanne Bird-Harris, developer of the WP Sales Page wizard. We’ll show you how to easily publish pages using your Wordpress platform. The class is on the phone and on the Internet, your choice. Can’t make the call?

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Marketo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The classic examples are advertorials, usually full-page ads in magazine that are meant to look like articles – you know, the ones with “ADVERTISEMENT” or “PROMOTION” written discreetly in one corner. While advertorials are still widely used, the decline of print media has given rise to a new type of native advertising: digitally integrated ads.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It was a fairly standard advertorial, presenting the facts (or “facts”) a brand wants the consumer to know. Almost four years ago, The Atlantic published a native ad, sponsored by the Church of Scientology, titled “David Miscavige Leads Scientology to Milestone Year.” ” Twelve hours later, the post was removed from the site. download it here if you’re curious'> 1.

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Eloqua Tips and Tricks

JUNE 11, 2021

Subset of paid media; dedicated, advertorial emails sent out through partners. Eloqua campaign reporting on SFDC Dashboards. Client Challenge.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Advertorials have been around for a long time. Welcome to my 2nd day coverage of Content Marketing World. Yesterday we covered the content quantity vs. content qualit y debate. Today, i am participating on a panel discussing Sponsored Content. There’s a lot of debate these days around sponsored content and the more recent term of “native advertising.”. Many like to point out that sponsored content is nothing new.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 27, 2012

Outbrain promotes almost all types of content - videos, advertorial, corporate blog posts, positive product reviews and conversations about your brand. Brainshark: Online and Mobile Video Presentation Tool. Normal. 2012-03-27T06:01:00Z. 2012-03-27T06:01:00Z. personal. 10.2625. Clean. Clean. MicrosoftInternetExplorer4. classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui>. Content Marketing Tools Series #4 Outbrain. Helping Readers Discover Interesting Content. About Outbrain.

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