What Part of “Don’t Deceive Your Readers” Aren’t We Getting?
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[responsive][/responsive]Sixty-three percent of Association of ANA members surveyed reported that they plan to “increase their spending on native advertising this year,” according to Lucia Moses in Digiday. This, in spite of the fact that “…earlier studies have shown people often can’t distinguish...
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Facebook to Escalate a Bidding War for Native Content?
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Is Facebook poised to start a bidding war with Google? It could be, judging from a recent patent application filed by the Zuckerberg et al. “The patent application,” notes Business Insider’s Lara O’Reilly, “details an ad exchange that combines an...
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Readers Not Loving the Content Treadmill
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The goal is sound: to keep the reader on the site, forestalling their inevitable bounce by feeding a running supply of story after story. To achieve this kind of stickiness, many publishers have incorporated the idea of the “infinite scroll”...
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Why Journalists Are Not Happy These Days
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[responsive][/responsive]The hallmark of good technology is that it makes our lives easier, more enjoyable and therefore makes us happier. So why are so many journalists saying that working in this digital tech-heavy age is harder than ever? “According to the...
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Content Marketing is the Only Marketing Left
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[responsive][/responsive] Much has been written lately about the attention economy and the need for brands to cut through the clutter to be heard and seen. Yet as we tire of virtually jumping up and down waving our hands in the...
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The Editors Guide to Brand Publishing in the New World
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“Telling great stories is always an editor’s top priority, but working with a brand adds an entirely new set of priorities,” says Ryan Galloway in Contently. “Suddenly having clients to please and marketing KPIs to hit can make the transition...
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Is Snapchat About to Jump the Shark?
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Snapchat is about to become a publisher. “Today, the image messaging app announced that it is going to become a new kind of publisher. Publications such as National Geographic, CNN, Vice, and Yahoo, amongst many others, will be pushing content...
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Conde Nast Allows Editors to Work with Advertisers
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[responsive][/responsive]It’s a sentence we couldn't have imagined ten years ago: “Glossy magazine publisher Conde Nast, which owns Vogue and Vanity Fair, is enlisting its editors to consult with advertisers and help them create articles and images,” writes Michael Sebastian in...
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Mr. Magazine Says Think “Audience First” This Year
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[responsive][/responsive]“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.” This quote from William Shakespeare is a fitting beginning to this piece from Samir Husni, aka Mr....
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How to Put Out Better Content
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[responsive][/responsive]Fact: Companies that blog get more web traffic, according to Brendon Schenecker in Forbes.com and piles of stats on the topic. The reasons why your company should be blogging are clear. So what’s the key to creating blog content that...
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