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    The definition of ‘sponsored content’

    Sponsored content / native advertising appears in many ways. There is no single form, but rather a continuum from banner ads to social media content [...]

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    The four business models of sponsored content

    There are four distinct models that we’ve seen so far, each with varying levels of involvement from the publisher and brand: Underwriting model: The brand [...]

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    Managing risks, maintaining standards and ethics in sponsored content

    The resounding consensus we heard from summit participants was that upholding the publisher’s own brand and integrity, and thereby its readers trust, is an important [...]

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    How sponsored content is created

    As we noted in our discussion of the four business models for sponsored content, there are varying levels of involvement from the brand and the [...]

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    How to measure success of sponsored content

    Most publishers at our summit said they track all the typical content metrics when measuring the reach of sponsored content — views, unique visitors, time [...]

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    Unsolved challenges of sponsored content

    Even the best experts we gathered for our summit acknowledged some areas where knowledge is missing. Reader impact: For one, it’s difficult to know what [...]

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    Appendix: What specific publishers, brands and analysts are doing with sponsored content

    We asked participants in our Thought Leader Summit on sponsored content to give us some specific information via a survey. Here were their responses: Publishers [...]

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    Appendix: Participant list and related readings from the sponsored content summit

    Related reading We recommend the following resources and articles that were based on or closely related to our sponsored content summit discussion. Defining and mapping [...]

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    How to break away from articles and invent new story forms

    As publishing has moved to digital forms, journalists have discovered it is quite possible — and sometimes preferable — to tell a news story without [...]

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    Six questions that will tell you what media to trust

    You may encounter media today from any number of sources, from traditional news sources to social media to email. How do you know what to [...]

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