Native-Ad Metrics Startup Simple Reach Raises $9 Million

SimpleReach, a company that provides publishers like The New York Times and Forbes with measurement and distribution tools for their native ad programs, has raised $9 million in its first big round of financing, the company said Tuesday. With the new series A funds, SimpleReach plans to invest in what it called "the next generation of content measurement and distribution.""We are thrilled to have the opportunity to invest in a foundational player within the fast-growing native advertising market," said Kirk Wolfe, General Partner at MK Capital, which led the financing round, in a statement. Investments also came from Atlas Ventures, Village Ventures and High Peaks Venture Partners.Native advertising, which seeks to more or less mimic the editorial content surrounding it, was until recently a tactic embraced mainly by digital-only startups like BuzzFeed and Mashable, plus a smattering of traditional publishers such as Forbes, a pioneer in the space. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]

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LSC Communications Prepares Bankruptcy Filing As Shareholder Revolts

Weeks after issuing an earnings that report that revealed the company lost $295 million last year, publication printer LSC Communications is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the plans." The news comes less than a year after the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Data Versus Creativity: The Publisher Perspective

When Walgreens launched a new loyalty program for its beauty lines in 2016, it coupled it with an advertising campaign to drive signups. As part of this campaign, it turned to the USA Today Network to reach its target audience: Women. What’s odd about picking the USA Today Network for this... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile Referendum: How Native Advertising Can Close the New Attention Gap

[Partner Content] Not only do publishers need to ensure their readiness, they need to demand their tech partners support native component-based advertising. The post Mobile Referendum: How Native Advertising Can Close the New Attention Gap appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Star Magazine Pulls SlimFast Ads After Better Business Bureau Challenge

It's the first time the BBB's National Advertising Division has held a publisher responsible for the way native advertising is presented. The post Star Magazine Pulls SlimFast Ads After Better Business Bureau Challenge appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Google Is Targeting Travel Marketers to Buy Native Programmatic Ads

In July, Google started offering native programmatic buying through its DoubleClick network with a pilot program that lets publishers make their so-called native advertising inventory available to brands. Brands can run multiple native campaigns by uploading all of the bits of the ad—including... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2016-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Why You Need Branded Content Benchmarks

Five years. That's how long "native advertising" has been a thing. That's when digital publishers started offering content marketing solutions to brands. It's when BuzzFeed tripled revenue, further validating that branded content was here to stay. Publishers, new and old, from the New York Times... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Majority of Publishers Use Their Own Editorial Staffs to Produce Native Ads

Native advertising is only the latest new skill set taken on by editors in the digital age. The post Majority of Publishers Use Their Own Editorial Staffs to Produce Native Ads appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Instant Articles are about to get more native ads

One gripe publishers have had about fast-loading Facebook Instant Articles is that it’s hard to monetize, especially with native advertising. Publishers will soon have greater ability to run native ads there, though, as ad tech company Polar is extending support for its platform to Instant... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Native Ads at a Mecca for Millennials: Wattpad’s ‘Brand Stories’

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Why BuzzFeed Is All-In on Mobile, Though That Wasn't Always the Case

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Arianna Huffington outlines the next chapter of The Huffington Post’s overseas expansion

The Huffington Post, which turned 10 in May, has 15 international editions -- but it's not about to rest on its laurels. The publisher's 75 editors-in-chief and business leaders from around the world congregated in Madrid Monday to discuss the digital publisher’s ambitious plan to be live in 50... Continue reading at Digiday

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The new normal: How native advertising’s changed in a year

Volume, creativity and analytics. Those were some of the biggest changes publishers noticed in native advertising over the past year, which we discovered at Digiday's "WTF is Native Advertising" event in New York. Top minds from the biggest publishers including Mental Floss, Time Inc., The Onion... Continue reading at Digiday

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Opinion: Native Advertising As We Know It Isn't Sustainable

The overwhelming majority of digital publishers (90 percent) have adopted or are considering adding native advertising to their sites. It’s seen as an effective tool by brands and advertisers, garnering 4.1 times more vi ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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Meredith Continues Digital Drive With Acquisition of Grocery Server

Better Homes and Gardens publisher Meredith Corp. has acquired Grocery Server, a digital shopper marketing platform, in the company's latest attempt to build its digital capabilities.Meredith's AllRecipes.com has used Grocery Server's platform, which shows shoppers where they can buy recipe... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Women's lifestyle site rides native-ad trend to the bank

During the past year, native advertising has gone from being the girl traditional publishers wanted to date but worried would hurt their reputation, to the trophy wife whom they always want by their... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York

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[Sponsored Content] Love it or hate it, native advertising is making a solid impact in the publishing world. It won’t be long before your advertisers will expect you to have a policy on whether or not you embrace it. The post Making the Decision About Native Advertising appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

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Centre Lane Partners has taken over the role of general partner of the investment funds that supported Perseus LLC, the parent company of the Perseus Books Group. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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