How BuzzFeed is solving native advertising’s scale problem
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How BuzzFeed is solving native advertising’s scale problem
For a brief time, it seemed like every publisher was launching a native advertising arm, and that the business model might serve as the magic bullet to save online media against the scourge of the Facebook/Google duopoly. But then native advertising pioneers like BuzzFeed and Vice started reporting revenue misses. [link]
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Bombshell from this article: The company formerly known as Gizmodo Media has a larger web audience than Vice and Refinery29 combined. Nick Denton really knew what he was doing when he built that company. [link]
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An interesting interview with the founder of Epic Magazine, which formed to create a more efficient pipeline between narrative magazine journalism and Hollywood. [link]
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