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@Mark: wellicht interessant om dit artikel eens te lezen:
"NYT Readers Spend Same Amount of Time on Paid Posts as News Stories"
"Readers of the New York Times are spending roughly the same amount of time on advertisersponsored posts as on news stories, according to Meredith Levien, the executive vice president of advertising for The Times. Speaking at the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ public relations forum in New York on Wednesday, Ms. Levien said that in some cases adsponsored posts, known as “paid posts,” had done better than traditional news stories."
Bob Garfield (Co‐host of On the Media and MediaPost columnist) stelde tijdens de FFC conferentie Blurred Lines: Advertising or Content? An FTC Workshop on Native Advertising (4 december 2013) dat lezers niet op advertenties klikken. "Ze klikken wel op native ads, ergo ze hebben niet door dat het advertenties zijn."
Dat is misschien wel al te kras, maar is het niet een beetje zorgwekkend als de lezers van The New York Times de voorkeur geven aan gesponsorde verhalen boven serieus nieuws, afgezien van de vraag of ze altijd doorhebben dat het content marketing is?
Nog een citaat:
"Moreover, to consumers who wonder what to believe, the emerging model of media content is bewildering. The differences in format and presentation between paid messaging and content produced by people exercising independent editorial judgment are getting almost impossible to discern. (Pick up a copy of Wired magazine, which is wonderfully designed, and try to identify the ads.
Accelerating the push toward more sponsored content will only deepen that confusion and intensify mistrust among thoughtful readers and viewers. I used to deplore this; now I fear that in the near-total absence of resistance from the news business, it’s irreversible. This may not be the media world we want, but it sure looks like the one we’re going to get.
Edward Wasserman, Dean van de Graduate School of Journalism aan de University van Berkely.
