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    Strategy worksheet: Your niche mobile app plan

    We developed a worksheet with a series of planning questions to get you started with conceiving and creating niche mobile products that are right for [...]

    December 11, 2013
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    What tech trends will change journalism next: 8 good questions with futurist Amy Webb

    Amy Webb thinks a lot about how emerging tech might affect the news industry, from anticipatory computing to the increased usage of smart virtual personal [...]

    November 13, 2013
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    Why sponsored content is promising for news organizations

    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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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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 [...]

    November 13, 2013
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