Should you “Standardize” Your Native Ad?

In the past few years, native advertising has gone from an emerging concept to a widely repeated buzzword, and today, to a mainstream online marketing practice – yet many advertisers and publishers are still figuring out how to define native advertising. The native advertising category and industry is convoluted at best.  Advertisers, marketers, and publishers are still trying to decide the most effective ways to deliver marketing content to audiences via evolving native advertising formats.

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Native Advertising and the Blurred Ad-Content Line

Since the days of “Mad Men,” the aim of advertisers has always been to create content that anticipates their audience’s immediate needs and interests.

In today’s market, that means native advertising. Brands are looking to position their messages in ways that are less intrusive. They want to more seamlessly integrate themselves in the user experience instead of paying for online banner ads that can be easily ignored. Presenting ads and sponsored content in the “native format” so that the advertising message can be seen within the content stream is crucial.

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MobSoc Media Launches 35 Digital Properties

MobSoc Media announced a digital publishing network of 35 properties across four verticals (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, and Sports) to attract and engage consumers with precision targeting. MobSoc Media aims to enable advertisers to reach their target audience in the mobile and social sphere at a more effective cost of audience acquisition.

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MobSoc Media: Content Marketing Loves Native Advertising

I think for many, the jury is still out on native advertising. But MobSoc Media may have found a way to make it possible through very specific targeting and a strong focus on social and mobile.

I spoke with MobSoc Media’s CEO, Steve Wick, about what the company is doing and how it works, and it is pretty interesting. MobSoc Media is essentially a publishing network: it has 41 digital properties across four verticals: entertainment, technology, lifestyle and sports. If you are a celebrity junkie, you probably know one of them: Celebrity Bistro.

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MobSoc Media Launches 35 Digital Properties for Brands to Surgically Target Consumers in the Mobile and Social World

Delivering on the promise of native advertising, MobSoc Media today announced a new digital publishing network of 35 properties across four publishing verticals (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, and Sports) to attract and engage consumers with targeted precision. MobSoc Media creates digital properties that consumers can engage with wherever they are online — via mobile, social media, and the web. MobSoc Media enables advertisers to reach their exact target audience in the mobile and social sphere at a more effective cost of audience acquisition, and allows consumers to satisfy their strong appetite for finding trending and engaging content that can also be easily shared.

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MobSoc Media Launches 35 Digital Properties

MobSoc Media announced a digital publishing network of 35 properties across four verticals (Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology, and Sports) to attract and engage consumers with precision targeting. MobSoc Media aims to enable advertisers to reach their target audience in the mobile and social sphere at a more effective cost of audience acquisition.

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