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Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial

B2B Memes

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.

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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. Related posts: Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial. His first line of defense against that charge is full disclosure. So I guess I still can’t answer my opening question.

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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. Related posts: Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial. His first line of defense against that charge is full disclosure. So I guess I still can’t answer my opening question.

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8 Signs You're Writing an Advertorial, Not a Blog Post

Hubspot

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. 1) You’re a Blogging Cheerleader.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

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. Masterpiece Theatre Mobil Oil Corp.

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Infographic: A Brief History of Content Marketing

Contently

In 1895, John Deere published the first issue of The Furrow , an agricultural magazine that published print advertorials. And it would do the savvy content marketer good to have a few classic examples to bust out at parties—or, at the very least, strategy meetings. After a few decades, each issue reached millions of customers.

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The Real Price We All Pay for “Brand Journalism”

Marketing Craftmanship

Promotional messaging that for decades had been identified and quarantined by the media as ADVERTORIAL content – now safely re-branded as “sponsored” or “native” content – has gained legitimacy as bona fide editorial information worthy of placement in the New York Times or the CBS Evening News.

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5 Must-Watch Google Webmaster Videos for the B2B Marketer

KoMarketing Associates

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.

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Stop the Insanity. Fire Your PR Firm in 2014.

Marketing Craftmanship

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. Counting Media Clips is a Zero Sum Game. Fire your PR firm in 2014.

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Should Your Content Be an Infographic?

Brandpoint

Brandpoint encourages clients to develop infographics that are informative and educational vs. advertorial. They should catch the reader’s eye and teach them information that’s relatable and educational. What makes a good infographic? Are you sharing important data or just trying to sell your latest product or service?

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How to Scale Your E-commerce Traffic Acquisition with Native Advertising

Single Grain

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 ). However, we will assume that this isn’t the case, as building a high-converting advertorial is a project of its own. Are they using advertorials?

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Branded content just another shade of fake news?

Biznology

Surely one missing element in what we used to call “advertorials” is the absence of a genuine, humanized brand voice. Because, if the recipient sees through the intent without getting something out of it, or even if he/she does, the opposite of the desired effect will result.

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Rethinking the Role of “Advertisers”

B2B Memes

Related posts: Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial? But unlike too many other legacy publishers, they have at least recognized that the old one is broken and will never be mended. Rethinking the Article as the Basic Unit of Journalism. Ethics: Is Transparency All We Need?

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Display ads vs native ads: What’s the difference?

Liveintent

These units are similar to an advertorial but come in various formats. Native ads are paid ad units that match their environment or surroundings and are used to promote a brand, product, or service. Native ads have an editorial look and feel and can be used on a web page, email newsletter, or in-app property.

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Today's Most Popular Content Marketing Tactics

Everything Technology Marketing

In contrast, the least commonly used content marketing tactics are advertorials (11 percent), community management & threading (12 percent), and virtual events (18 percent).

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3 Ways You Can Leverage Content Marketing in Your Sales Automation

Scoop.it

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. That is when a company writes an article and pays to place it in a newspaper or magazine.

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How Print Publications Impact B2B Content Marketing Development

KoMarketing Associates

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. What do you think is generally higher quality?

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The Truth About Guest Posting

RebelMouse

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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B2B Blogging Trends We Expect to Die Out

BOP Design

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. We cannot wait to see advertorial content that masquerades as helpful, educational content die.

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Rethinking the Role of “Advertisers”

B2B Memes

Related posts: Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial? But unlike too many other legacy publishers, they have at least recognized that the old one is broken and will never be mended. Rethinking the Article as the Basic Unit of Journalism. Ethics: Is Transparency All We Need?

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White Papers are Not Dead. They’re on Life Support.

Marketing Craftmanship

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. White papers jumped the shark when they became paid content.

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Kindness opens many doors online

Biznology

They’ve been used for the links, they’ve been used for the advertorial, and they’ve even done things with the promise of working together in the future. And it’s rarely easy. Bloggers have a lot of baggage. They’ve been abused, they’ve been abandoned. You must be unflappable.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

What About Advertorials? Advertorials (IMPORTANT). What are Advertorials? Will Backlinks Lose Their Importance in Ranking? What is a “Paid Link”? Why Do Paid Links Violate Google’s Guidelines While Other Ads Don’t? The Impact of Social Media on Link Building. Return to the Top. Created: May 29, 2013.

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B2B Blogs Your Prospects and Clients Hate to Read

BOP Design

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. It’s monumentally frustrating and often will leave a bad taste in your mouth.

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Welcome To The Age Of Ad Blocking

Marketing Insider Group

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.

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Brand Journalism Trend Heats Up in UK

B2B Memes

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. Companies that have a story to tell and the money to get it told.&#.

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Landing Pages: Get Readers to Take Action

Writing on the Web

Landing Pages: Where to Publish Your Advertorial. There’s even a free webcast audio and slides available. Related posts: Content Marketing Results: Landing Pages Rule. Sales & Landing Pages Using WordPress: Learn How. Video: How to Create Great Sales Pages in WP. Why Use a WP Sales Page Template?

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Only B2B - Untitled Article

Only B2B

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. Examples of Inbound and Demand generation.

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The B2B Marketing Guide to Paid Content Distribution

Digital B2B Marketing

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.

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How to Market to Millennials

Onalytica B2B

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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Everything you need to know about native ads in email newsletters

Liveintent

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. Branded content native ads.

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Infographics, Videos and Listicles Have Changed the Look of the MAT Release in Today’s Digital World

Brandpoint

The MAT Release explained No matter what name you give it — feature article, branded journalism, native advertising, sponsored content or advertorial – a MAT release is one of marketing’s most powerful PR tools, and has been for several decades.

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Only B2B - Untitled Article

Only B2B

The famous Wall Street advertorial used storytelling and sold $2 billion worth of subscriptions and ran from 1975-2003. Instead, try “ learn more ” or link to a “ case study ”. You send them a link to your webinar. A few days later you can send an email like this. Tell stories.

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

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

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. The term “native advertising” describes any ads that mimic the visual format and content of its environment.

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Earned media influencer outreach is alive and well

Biznology

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. Dan and I are very excited about the rest of the week.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

Writing on the Web ( Ning Advertorial Business Blogging Online Marketing Linkedin Landing Page ). B2B Memes ( Advertorial Ethics Publisher Magazine Intent Advertising Media Article ). Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial , Wednesday, July 14, 2010. B2B, Buzz & Brand ROI: Creating Customers That Create (MORE!) June 8, 2010.

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Content Marketing Tools Series #4 Outbrain

Ambal's Amusings

Outbrain promotes almost all types of content - videos, advertorial, corporate blog posts, positive product reviews and conversations about your brand. Outbrain, founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York powers content recommendations helps people discover great new content to read online.

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Sales & Landing Pages Using Wordpress: Learn How

Writing on the Web

Landing Pages: Where to Publish Your Advertorial. Rant: The Problem with Formatting Sales Pages. 8 Ways to Use a Wordpress Sales Page. Blog or Website: Do You Use Wordpress as a Website?

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When Facts Fall Short: Why Brands Need a Point of View

Contently

It was a fairly standard advertorial, presenting the facts (or “facts”) a brand wants the consumer to know. Since 2013, the incident has served as an interesting learning experience for content marketers. The article itself wasn’t all that controversial. But the response to The Atlantic was overwhelmingly critical.

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The 2 Rules of Sponsored Content

Marketing Insider Group

Advertorials have been around for a long time. 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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