Why Branded Content Is Poised to Take Over

As more publishers launch branded content divisions, native advertising is taking over a larger part of digital marketing. Adweek caught up with Peter Minnium, the Interactive Advertising Bureau's head of brand initiatives, to talk about the trend, which was the topic of a panel he recently moderated the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Phoenix. The central question he posed to the panel was whether publishers, agencies or brands would create the best ads in the future. We revisited that topic, along with several other hot issues like measuring viewability, in our conversation with Minnium: Adweek: We're seeing a growth of publishers creating their own in-house agencies. Minnium: It's absolutely a trend. The IAB sees digital advertising falling into three buckets going forward: concept ads, commerce ads and content ads. Concept ads are upper-funnel, awareness-driving and used to create new desire and demand. Television commercials are a perfect example, as are the more creative uses of the IAB Rising Stars. Commerce ads are the good-old-fashioned universal ad package, bottom-of-the-funnel ads that present a single offer and often live on the margins of the page. Content ads are the ones that are growing like crazy. Native advertising is the biggest form. Traditional brand agencies "own" concept ads. They know how to tell a story and how to build interactive advertising. New-world digital advertising companies, including a lot of technology companies, know how to do... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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