How to increase ad revenue with sponsored galleries
History and Progress Spotlight News has been covering local news from the Capital District of New York for more than 60 years. Those years of experience have given them a …
How Your Ad-Blocker Strategy Can Win Paid Subscribers
Everyone needs an Ad-blocker Strategy Advertising is a time-honored part of the publishing world. The digital space, however, has changed the game. ‘Banner blindness’ keeps readers from registering the content …
How To Sell Ads In A Digital World
A Hard Truth The digital advertising space is a bit of a mess. Traditional print methods don’t cut it with a digital audience. Banner ads, display ads: they just don’t …
How to add a display/banner ad into your WordPress sidebar
Learn how to quickly create a linked banner ad and publish it into your sidebar. This method breaks down into a few simple steps: In your Dashboard create a draft …
Google to Penalize Pages with Intrusive Popup Ads Starting January 2017
It’s time to rethink your ad strategy if you are making readers close popup ad boxes before they can get to your article. Google announced today that it will begin …
Beautiful Mobile Ads – Padsquad – a mobile engagement platform
Sometimes it’s not so apparent how to monetize the site with advertising without sacrificing the look and feel of your design. If your team is picky with design and looking …
You need to teach your advertisers how to create engaging ad content
The online advertising world is evolving quickly. There are now more and more choices for online publishers to pick from as to how efficiently generate revenue for their site. Josh Macht, a …
Ad Blogging: Monitization strategy #4
#4 Ad Blogging – letting advertisers promote 24/7 on your site One of the best kept secrets in advertising is simply giving your advertisers the ability to blog their promotions …
The Paywall: Monitization strategy #3
#3 Your Paywall – readers try before they buy If you think your content solves a pain point for your audience that motivates them enough to pay then you absolutely …
The Native Ad: Monitization strategy #2
#2 Native Ads – preserving the trust What is a native ad? Remember the advertorial in magazines? Well, native advertising is the same thing. You publish an article that is …
The Banner Ad: Monitization strategy #1:
Your audience is always willing to “pay” to read your publication. How much they are willing to pay is the unknown you must uncover. Let’s explore the possibilities and put …
Huffington Post publishes our how-to article on native advertising
Good advice from our very own Jesse McDougall. If you are running or considering adding sponsored content to your publication, do yourself a favor and follow Jesse’s 2 simple rules …
Is native advertising doomed?
This video made me laugh. It’s funny, really funny and makes me glad I have an HBO subscription so I can watch more John Oliver. John, in a completely satirical …
Is native advertising doomed?
This video made me laugh. It’s funny, really funny and makes me glad I have an HBO subscription so I can watch more John Oliver. John, in a completely satirical …
How to publish a native ad in WordPress
With all the discussion and growth of native advertising, we thought it was time for us to provide a simple yet effective plugin to flag an article as “Sponsored” or “Promoted” …
73% of Publishers offer Native Advertising
Native advertising is like the old advertorial… it’s publishing an article that is really an advertisement. The ad is native to your stream of articles or blog posts. Why is this so popular now? Read on to find out!
How to promote your website address offline
Make sure that you look in every corner of your organization to spot promotional opportunities to get the word out about your website address.
Advertiser blogs make serious money
What if your advertisers could compete for the #1 spot on your publication’s homepage? The homepage of your news or magazine site holds great value for your advertisers, so why …
Time to ditch your banner ads?
…unless you have a large community and readership. Forget ads and create products to sell Your biggest strength as a magazine or news publisher is that you have a community …
What platform should you use for your online magazine? (Hint: WordPress)
Why WordPress? The war for attention online is brutal. Today, you absolutely positively must do these 5 things right: 1. Open your arms to Google search: let your articles get …
How to add a display/banner ad into your WordPress sidebar
Learn how to quickly create a linked banner ad and publish it into your sidebar. This method breaks down into a few simple steps: In your Dashboard create a draft …