Marissa Mayer: Marketers Need to Embrace Native Ads

CANNES, France—From magazines to TV, radio to newspapers, every medium has come to embrace native advertising. If Yahoo can leave its past behind, then surely advertisers can too. That was, more or less, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's advice to brands and advertisers attending the Cannes Lions festivities here today. And while the high-profile exec spoke to attendees on Le Croisette, her marketing team was busy spreading the word that Tumblr's native-styled Sponsored Posts were now available for placement across Yahoo's properties. On Yahoo's digital publications such as new Yahoo Beauty and Yahoo Tech, the Tumblr ads will render as image-heavy sponsored content next to news articles and other editorial posts. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Photo: Steve Jennings/WireImage Of course, the Tumblr development strategically meshed with the central themes of Mayer's address. Specifically, she wants everyone to stop all the hand-wringing over native advertising and embrace its role as an inevitable—and highly effective—form of digital marketing. "There's this notion of the Internet with content in the middle and stickers around the edge," Mayer told the audience at her Cannes presentation, titled "On Users, Brands and Creativity."  While she didn't directly blame brand marketers for perpetuating this traditional advertising approach, she did dedicate a good portion of her faced-paced talk to Yahoo's success with native advertising units, which she says have consistently proven to be... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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