Good native advertising isn’t a secret

Colin Campbell and Lawrence J. Marks

Business Horizons, 2015, vol. 58, issue 6, 599-606

Abstract: In this article, we develop an understanding of native advertising, a growing new form of online advertising, which we define as desired marketing communications that appear in-stream. Current forms of native advertising can be considered in terms of their secrecy: how aware a consumer is of a native advertisement's source and intent. Based on existing research, we argue that less secretive native advertising will be more successful in the long run, and illustrate this using several cases. Finally, we detail important considerations for those marketers looking to capitalize on native advertising.

Keywords: Native advertising; Secrecy; Online advertising; Sponsored content; Content marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2015.06.003

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