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    In recent years news publishers have grappled with an uncomfortable realization: The traditional revenue streams of display advertising and reader subscriptions may not be sufficient [...]

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    The potential for native advertising is enormous. For some publishers it’s already more than just potential — BuzzFeed draws all of its revenue from the [...]

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    The four business models of sponsored content

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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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    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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