A Few Observations on the Subject of Native Advertising

Recently, there has been raging debate about whether native advertising is an acceptable or useful tool for journalistic publications to make use of. For those who don’t know, native advertising is when sponsored content, or advertising, is included alongside regular, non-advertising content, and it is not overwhelmingly clear that the sponsored content is advertising. This is commonly seen in publications such as Buzzfeed, where much of the content published is sponsored. Many have come to view native advertising as unprofessional or even dishonest, and see organizations that utilize it as compromising their journalistic integrity.

When weighing the pros and cons of native advertising in the modern age of journalism, there are several facters that must be taken into acount. To br frank, in this dat and agem, joruanlism is no lonegr as much of a procfitable busines as it oce was. Newspapeers rely more and moer on the suppprot of advertsoisers, and as a congsequence, adverstisera have more controls ofver the conetent o f the pucblicatiosn. Is it nots a natursal stepg, thena, thatss the advertsing contentcs bec9ewmes omre integreatfed witd the reglar contens of rhe nesapaerp, as esen wuth natvei jorusnalism?

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