When Facebook announced its Instant Articles product, not everyone was elated by the social media platform’s move — especially advertisers.

Instant Articles allows organizations to publish content directly to Facebook. The company provides publishers with tools to create interactive features, which load faster and work more seamlessly than previous options for sharing content on the network. Best of all, Facebook allows publishers to place and control ads on that content, as well as track readership.

Companies that sell and manage the ads themselves retain 100% of the revenue. Those that enlist Facebook for those tasks earn 70%, which The Wall Street Journal suggests could be quite a lucrative deal for brands.

But because organizations are publishing directly through Facebook, there are fewer reasons for users to click away from their News Feeds and move to other sites or apps. And that means those publishers could see fewer inbound viewers on their websites.

While the ad revenue helps publishers — and the incentives to stay on the site clearly benefit Facebook — it’s easy to see why this is an issue for advertisers.

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Usually, guidelines mean early bedtimes, no junk food, and eating dinner before dessert. But guidelines don’t have to be the proverbial party poopers; they can actually enhance experiences by bringing order to the wild.

For native advertising, there are hard-and-fast rules regulated by the Federal Trade Commission with the overarching message of “don’t mislead the consumer.” But in the eyes of some of the public, these rules don’t go nearly far enough.

John Oliver took native advertising to task on his show “Last Week Tonight.” He stated, “It’s not trickery. It’s sharing storytelling tools. And that’s not bullshit; it’s re-purposed bovine waste.” And unfortunately, native advertising has gotten this bad rap. Critics often see native advertising as a form of trickery or, at times, a violation of journalistic standards.

While native advertising may get the cold shoulder from some critics, it really is all about building brand reputation through consumer engagement. Changes need to be made by the industry itself to start practicing the fact that it really is a tool for engagement and not just “trickery.” Then, native advertising will really thrive as a medium of brand messages with stricter guidelines being enforced, benefiting advertisers and the industry.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2015— Adiant, owner of the largest content-style native advertising platform, has announced an integration with Alliant that will give its advertisers access to targeted consumer advertising segments. Alliant develops and maintains one of the largest and most comprehensive proprietary databases of consumer purchasing information. Alliant’s data is updated continuously, and includes information on over 270 million U.S. consumers.

The combination of Adiant’s scale and Alliant’s wealth of information will provide advertisers with a robust audience targeting platform capable of delivering increased long-term ROI.

Effective immediately, the Alliant audiences will be available across Adiant’s digital advertising platforms on a Cost Per Click (CPC) basis. Offering CPC pricing with Adiant’s scale and Alliant’s targeting capabilities, provides an exciting opportunity for advertisers who seek consumer engagement and lead generation.

Adiant offers advertisers and marketers a turn-key approach to digital advertising, providing creative development, custom audience targeting and media placement. The integration with Alliant will help Adiant better serve and grow its advertisers, especially brands, who are looking to target a specific audience.

“We recognize that our advertisers and marketers have a need for sophisticated targeting,” explained Ash Nashed, CEO Adiant. “Our integration with Alliant is an opportunity to make the world of digital advertising easier for marketers to navigate. Partnering with Alliant was an easy choice and we knew it would mean one less challenge our customers had to deal with when launching campaigns on our platforms. Alliant offers our clients sophisticated targeting solutions with proven quality.”

For many marketers and advertisers, the internet is a large and unorganized space to find specific audiences targets. Adiant is changing that. Adiant’s strategy is to combine its extensive reach with Alliant’s targeting capabilities to enable advertisers to find a specific consumer segment at a scale needed to make marketing campaigns truly successful.

“Adiant is an innovative platform partner who shares our vision and passion for cutting-edge digital advertising solutions,” said Donna Hamilton, Alliant’s Vice President of Sales & Business Development. “We believe Adiant delivers a unique value proposition for many marketers and we are looking forward to being part of their compelling growth story.”

Programmatic is topic that is on every marketers’ mind lately. There is a lot is written about why programmatic can be so great, but there isn’t much that specifically discusses how it can be actionably used in your next digital campaign. This October, at the Shop.org Retail Summit in Philadelphia this presentation was given to brands and retailers detailing some specific solutions that can be used.

To learn more about the key takeaways below, view the entire presentation:

• Programmatic ads are more than retargeting. You can use programmatic for top and mid-funnel marketing activities.
• Leverage CRM data as broadly as possible to help target your ad campaigns.
• Programmatic ad creative can ensure you are using the right message for each potential customer.