Definition of Native Advertising

 

Time To Define Native Advertising

Talk to any agency, brand or publisher about what they’re paying attention to, and within five minutes, you’ll hear one (or all) of these terms: “native advertising,” “sponsored content,” “branded content,” “content marketing,” and “custom content.”

The problem is that those terms mean something different to everyone. The media tends to use the terms interchangeably. (Even the New York Times gets tripped up in defining these tactics.) Here’s an attempt to clarify what’s what. Please add your thoughts in the comments.

Native Advertising:

When an ad unit can only be bought and displayed on one platform. Think Facebook’s Sponsored Stories; Twitter’s Promoted Tweets; Tumblr’s Radar. These ad units are unique to those environments.

Sponsored Content:

When a brand pays a publisher to have its name and/or message associated with a particular story. This typically takes the form of a brief intro paragraph informing readers that the following article is sponsored by an advertiser. You’ll see phrases like “brought to you by,” “presented by,” or “sponsored by.” This is not content produced by the brand. The marketer is given a broad topic area that it can choose to associate its brand with. The marketer does not get a say in what will be produced, at least not in the type of sponsored content programs run by sites like Mashable, Business Insider and Digiday.

Brand Content

We have heard ad nauseam that brands are publishers now. What they produce, on their own and running through their own distribution channels, is brand content. Think of Coca-Cola’s YouTube channel. The video below is content created by the soft drink brand that blurs the lines between advertising and entertainment.

Content Marketing:

This is the catchall phrase that encompasses all of the above. On a most basic level, it means “not banner ads.” It conveys the strategic shift occurring at many brands that are thinking of ways to sell their wares and services beyond the hard sell. These efforts involve creating content and experiences people want to consume, while at the same time conveying a brand message. For a brand like Coca Cola, that means hair-raising stunts and action-sports content; for American Express, it is producing tools and content useful and needed by small-business owners.

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