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  • The Future Of Native
    2013 will be remembered as the year "native advertising" transitioned from a buzzword to a full-fledged category. As with any newborn, there will certainly be some wobbles and falls along the way as the native category quickly goes from crawl and walk to run, but what's clear is that native will grow and mature into an important part of the digital advertising ecosystem.
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    High-caliber content allows a publisher like Pandora to do something no company in the video ad space can, or is willing to do: earn and nourish the attention of the advertiser's target audience first, before serving an ad, and then sustain it after playing the ad. When you listen to music on Pandora, you hear multiple songs before you hear the first commercial. The content has tucked your attention in under a warm blanket well before an ad taps you gently on the shoulder and whispers in your ear. Comfortable and content (pun intended), consumers are more likely to listen …
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