Native Advertising Outlook

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Pricing Native Advertising
Rick Ducey
Managing Director
BIA/Kelsey
Topics
 Native ad ecosystem
 Forecast and drivers
 Does native advertising work?
 Pricing metrics and strategies
 Case study
 Recommendations
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Native Advertising Outlook for 2014 and Beyond

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Native Ad Ecosystem Has Many
Players Trying to Earn a Living
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Where do native ads occur?
 Social networks. Facebook’s News Feed ads, YouTube’s
Promoted Videos and Twitter’s Promoted Tweets are among the
most popular formats, but others such as Pinterest, LinkedIn,
Google+ and StumbleUpon are ramping up in this area.
 Mobile. A key driver behind the success of native advertising has
been the growth of mobile usage on platforms such as Facebook,
Twitter and Pandora.
 Digital media. Native implementations include BuzzFeed lists,
sponsored articles on Mashable and The Huffington Post videos on
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sponsored articles on Mashable and The Huffington Post, videos on
CollegeHumor and real estate listings on Trulia.com.
 Traditional media. Publishers with active native ad programs
include The New York Times, The Atlantic, Hearst, The Guardian
and Vanity Fair.

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Social Native Advertising
Growing to $9.4B by 2018
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Native advertising is #2 “most
important digital revenue source”
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So…does native advertising
work?
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ROI Assessment of Media Used For Advertising
(1 of 2)
40%
50%
Excellent 10-19x Spend Extraordinary Over 20x Spend
ROI from Native Platforms
18.8% 19.3% 20.0%
13.6%
20.2% 18.9% 19.5% 18.8% 18.8% 17.8%
13.3% 12.6% 13.2%
15.8%
26.1%
13.3%
18.6%
11.9%
12.8% 12.2% 12.3% 12.1%
10.9%
13.3%
11.3%
7.7%
0%
10%
20%
30%
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Source: BIA/Kelsey Local Commerce Monitor, Wave 17, Q3/2013 (and prior waves, if relevant). Methodology: Online panels.
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Q107

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“You are 475.28 times
more likely to survive a
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plane crash than click on a
banner ad.”
-SolveMedia
53%53%
of users say they are more likely to
look at a native than a banner ad
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look at a native than a banner ad
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32% would share a native ad.
18% more (52% vs 34%) of
native ad viewers show purchase
intent
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intent.
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Pricing Factors
1. Campaign goal – branding, direct response have
different metrics and value points
2. Content type – SMS, video, text
3. Channel – desktop, mobile, tablet
4. Programmatic platform vs direct selling
5. Packaging and bundling – increase AVO (average value
of order)
6. Competitive pricing – market factors, easier to manage
with bundling
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with bundling
7. Value pricing – easier to achieve with bundling
8. Cost-based pricing – difficult to fully attribute costs, but
probably leaving money on the table.

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Pricing Metrics and Strategies
 CPM – common currency but doesn’t capture key value
point of social native advertising of social “shares” and
quality of impressions (accidental click versus reading
i l h i i h f i d )article, sharing with friends)
 CPE – engagement metrics are higher value for
advertiser but need to standardize on these (time spent,
amount read/watched, sharing, other secondary actions)
 Sponsorships – Pricing more of an art than science,
value-based pricing but may end up with higher CPMs vs
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other pricing models, may not be sustainable.
 Bundling - Value-based pricing but if used effectively
can achieve client goals by matching inventory to
consumer purchase journey stage in funnel
How are publishers pricing
native?
S hiSponsorship
41%
Packages
41%
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CPM/CPE
18%
Source: Polar, 2014

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$4 58$4.58
CPM for Facebook sponsored
stories
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stories
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$100K per campaign is typical
for BuzzFeed (~$5 CPM)
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Case Study: Houston Chronicle
 Created own digital agency
(AmuseDigital.com)
ll k f h Sell packages for 3 month
minimum @ $7K/mo
 Move to $12K/mo within first
year but annual programs in
$250K range
 Includes assets, promoting in
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print
 Partnering with Outbrain, Navio
 Native ads generate “7-figures”
annually Stephen Weis
EVP, Digital Revenue
Houston Chronicle
Case Study: Houston Chronicle
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Recommendations
1. Go for Life Time Value (LTV) with clients by bundling
inventory to match their campaign goals to
 Your inventory and its capabilities
 Creative execution related to stage (e.g, branding vs directg ( g, g
response)
 Long term contracts with committed clients
 Appropriate calls to action for low funnel native ads
 Appropriate metrics to funnel stage
2. Appropriate pricing metrics for stage in funnel
 CPM more for branding
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 CPE for lower funnel ads
 Sponsorships for higher funnel
3. Check back with the client – is it working?
 A/B testing
 Fine tune the campaign
TheLocalMedia&AdvertisingExperts
Questions & Comments:
Rick Ducey
Managing Director
rducey@biakelsey.com
(703) 818-2425(703) 8 8 4 5
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