Consumer Trust Still the Biggest Hurdle for Native Advertisers

Not all content is equal -- at least when it comes to trust.A new study conducted by Nielsen on behalf of InPowered, a technology startup, found that consumers are actually quite sophisticated in how they utilize different sources in the buying process. And they, in fact, favor third-party articles by journalists (what the research calls "trusted content").At the same time, the data raises serious questions over whether native advertising threatens to upend this trust publishers have earned with their audience. This is a particularly prickly issue as it could become harder for readers to discern ads from editorial. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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10 Essential Native American Novels

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'Ebooks are stupid', says head of one of world's biggest publishers

The chief executive of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry, says the industry has had ‘one or two successes among a hundred failures’ and that ebooks have ‘no creativity’The head of one of the world’s largest book publishers has described the ebook as “a stupid product” that is unlikely to see further... Continue reading at The Guardian

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News UK to advertisers: Run your Facebook ads on our sites

"Facebook is aggressively turning the dial against [brands and publishers]." The post News UK to advertisers: Run your Facebook ads on our sites appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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Giant advertiser Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Google over 'toxic content'

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Tara Westover | 'My biggest fear wasn't that it wouldn't get published but that it would get published when it didn't deserve to be'

A remarkable tale of the importance of education by Tara Westover is destined for big things, predicts Caroline Sanderson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Brands built to last a lifetime are the key to consumer karma

Author and founder of the BuyMeOnce website Tara Button was a shopaholic until she fell in love with a Le Creuset pot. Now disposable is a dirty wordForget retail therapy. It’s so yesterday. Avoiding frequent visits to the shops is a better way to serenity, claims a book published this week,... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Newsweek Media Group’s Publisher and Finance Director Resign Amid Reports of Advertising Fraud

Newsweek Media Group's chairman and finance director have resigned from their roles at the company. Newsweek Media Group (formerly IBT Media)--which owns Newsweek, International Business Times and other digital media properties--confirmed in a memo to staff on Thursday that Etienne Uzac and... Continue reading at AdWeek

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‘In one fell swoop:’ 75 percent of advertisers say they’ve been endangered by risky content

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Facebook feigns accountability with ‘trusted’ news survey

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Rupert Murdoch Wants Facebook to Pay Publishers a Fee for ‘Trusted’ News Content

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Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook: pay 'trusted' publishers for their content

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Rupert Murdoch Tells Facebook to Pay 'Trusted' Publishers

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Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay 'trusted' publishers for content

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Facebook should pay 'trusted' news outlets, Rupert Murdoch says

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Facebook to Rank Publishers Based on How Trusted They Are

Facebook will rank news outlets based on how "trustworthy" they determine them to be, in another News Feed tweak announced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the platform Friday.Zuckerberg added that he expects a 20 percent drop in the amount of news people see."There's too much sensationalism,... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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Scottish Book Trust reveals New Writers Award winners

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Pivoting to video is the biggest trend in media — but it may not prove as lucrative as publishers hope

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