Battling Branded Content with AR in the Social Media Stadium – Asia Hunt, Strategist, Trollbäck+Company

Battling Branded Content with AR in the Social Media Stadium – Asia Hunt, Strategist, Trollbäck+Company

As advertising encroaches further into our social feeds and inevitably, our daily lives, it has become harder and harder to tell the difference between paid and organic content. Influencers mask sponsorships as lifestyle posts, commercials play between nearly every online video we watch, and product ads are served to us mere minutes after we’ve searched […]

Instagram lets brands turn influencer posts into ads

Instagram lets brands turn influencer posts into ads

Instagram has launched a tool that will let advertisers pay to make influencer posts appear as ads so that they reach a bigger audience. Until recently, brands who paid influencers to post sponsored videos or images on their Instagram profiles have had their reach limited to that particular influencer’s following on the platform. Now, posts uploaded […]

TripleLift introduces branded content at scale, powered by programmatic

TripleLift introduces branded content at scale, powered by programmatic

Native advertising platform TripleLift has debuted the first scalable, programmatic branded content solution – ContentDial. ContentDial informs and scales data-based content strategies for brands and advertisers who are working with multiple publishing partners across a variety of owned and operated sites, as well as social pages, by leveraging real-time data and technology. ”With ContentDial, marketers […]

Snapchat approves branded content ads for publishers

Snapchat approves branded content ads for publishers

Snapchat will now allow publishers to publish branded content to its app, having previously been unable to create the ads that ran between their articles and videos within the Discover section. The deal between Snapchat and the publishers on its platform means that the likes of BuzzFeed, NBC Universal, and Vice will be able to […]

Snapchat simplifies location-based campaigns for brands

Snapchat simplifies location-based campaigns for brands

Snapchat Inc. may start to see more brands paying up for location-based advertising campaigns on its photo-sharing mobile app, thanks to the efforts of another startup, Yext Inc. Advertisers can already pay the social media service to have branded geofilters—a type of graphical overlay people can use to decorate photos or videos they’re sharing—to show […]