Publishers are pinning their hopes on native ads, but sooner or later, they’ll have to address the question of how they’re going to scale ads without diminishing the qualities that make them native in the first place.
Forbes is now making a major overhaul to its BrandVoice pages that directly addresses this question. Starting next week, Forbes will let brands republish content from elsewhere. In this way, advertisers won’t be tasked with constantly feeding the beast with fresh content. Forbes is itself actively working with advertisers now to identify content that they could port over.
