
The most traditionally influenced form of native marketing manifests as the placement of sponsor-funded content alongside editorial content, or showing "other content you might be interested in" which is sponsored by a marketer alongside editorial recommendations. Popular examples include, Twitter's promoted Tweets, Facebook's promoted stories, and Tumblr's promoted posts. Alternative examples of modern technique include search advertising, when ads appear alongside search results that qualify as native to the search experience. A majority of these methods for delivering the native strategy have been relegated to an online presence, where it is most commonly employed as publisher-produced brand content, a similar concept to the traditional advertorial. Ĭontemporary formats for native advertising now include promoted videos, images, articles, commentary, music, and other various forms of media.

The word native refers to this coherence of the content with the other media that appear on the platform.



In many cases it functions like an advertorial, and manifests as a video, article or editorial. Native advertising, also called sponsored content, is a type of advertising that matches the form and function of the platform upon which it appears.
