User awareness of sponsored content

How to make native advertising work for you

Choose advertisers whose values align with yours In the last blog post I laid out the reasons why independent news media organizations need to hire their own salespeople. This way they avoid giving up ad revenue to tech platforms. They also offer advertisers a safer environment. Although publishers sell conventional ad spaces like the platforms, […]

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How publishers can overcome loss of Facebook traffic

Now that Facebook has made clear that it will not be promoting journalism to its users, all of the publishers who were getting much of their traffic there should look elsewhere. (Frederic Filloux of Monday Note has one of the best analyses of the company’s announcement.) What now? Well, there are several tactics and strategies […]

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