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Content’s Evil Twin: Advertorial

B2B Memes

As explained in detail on Charles Apple’s blog , what I mistook for a real newspaper was in fact a four-page advertising wrap. In other words, an advertorial. When I was in traditional publishing, I fought to set limits to advertorials, but ultimately had to tolerate them. Its modus operandi is deception, not transparency.

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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

B2B Memes

As long-time readers of this blog know, I generally like the idea of content marketing. 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. True enough.

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Lewis DVorkin: Content Marketing or Advertorial?

B2B Memes

As long-time readers of this blog know, I generally like the idea of content marketing. 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. True enough.

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Financial Services Can Earn Trust by Modeling Content After Customer Narratives

Content Standard

” When it comes to effective, ethical marketing, trust always plays an implicit part in the conversation—your audience can’t listen to what you have to say if they don’t believe your brand when you say it. . “Times have changed. Image attribution: Raw Pixel.

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What Is Earned Media?

ClearVoice

Though they may pay their public relations professional, ethically, a journalist can’t accept funds from a company or person to feature them in their medium of choice. When I started my public relations career, earned media was all there was unless you counted advertorials and the like. What earned media is not.

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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. After the FTC’s announcement, consensus on the marketing blogs was that federal attention will actually be a good thing. “If

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Under the Influence

Contently

The practice is another form of native advertising, except it relies on social media influencers rather than in-house advertorial. .” Later on, they awkwardly announce the full model name (2016 Nissan Ultima 3.5SL), use the branded hashtag #sonotmeh, and Tiff even claims it was her “dream car” growing up. Subtle this is not.