Inside BuzzFeed’s Plan to Prove its Native Ads Work

by: Lucia Moses | Digiday

By the standards of BuzzFeed, which tries to maximize how much its content is shared, its campaign for Toyota was a hit. Of everyone who saw the campaign, three in 10 shared it with others. At the center was a video, “First Car Vs. First REAL Car,” which went viral with 1 million views in less than two weeks. The clip humorously compared the experience of owning one’s first lemon to owning one’s first “real” car (a Toyota, of course).