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by dominostars 2429 days ago
Can you give examples of newspaper ads that are made to look like just another article on the same page?
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I work in the publishing industry; we publish several industry trade magazines.

We often get sponsored articles that are labeled specifically as ads and are created to look exactly like any other article in our magazines. Most of the time they are extremely clear to the reader based simply on the content compared to other articles, but they are also marked directly as advertisements on the page... though not in a super obvious way.

This is not a new or rare phenomenon. I noticed it many times when growing up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial