NATIVE ADVERTISING AS A PRIORITY WAY OF CONTENT STRATEGY MANAGEMENT

The following article outlines the current state of the management of communication channels usage on the Internet, especially the PPC (Pay Per Click) model of it; nowadays this process is characterized by the prevalence of the consumer value of messages, which occurs in the context of content marketing; in its turn, it is highlighted how content marketing initiatives compete with more traditional means (contextual and display advertising); modern principles and requirements of the content strategy of the company, based primarily on Google’s assessments recommendations and quality experience of the website visitor, are systematized, and they include the profile and authority of the author, specifications regarding video on web-pages, “Your Money Your Life” criteria (which focuses on goods and services that may influence many state or health of the consumer or visitor of the web-page), author’s reputation, and the criterion E-A-T (Expertise, Credibility, Reliability); the essence of native advertising as a new hybrid digital marketing tool that combines the consumer usefulness of the material and the commercial component of the advertisement module to achieve tactical (generating inbound traffic, increasing campaign reach) and strategic goals (applying the image and, in part, reminiscent marketing functions of this tool) are identified; the basic factors of success of native advertising in modern conditions of competition of information portals and content projects in social networks are highlighted; the method of calculation of the native advertising performance is suggested which includes several indicators to calculate the returns on the specific native advertising; tendencies of development of native advertising and ways of determining its effectiveness are outlined.