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month, BuzzFeed launched a 100-item line of Goodful products that it is selling exclusively at Macy’s. Over the past year, it developed products for Scott’s, Maybelline and Bloomscape, using BuzzFeed.com and its social reach to promote them. BuzzFeed’s markets team also has begun upselling affiliate commerce partners like Quip and Care/Of on display and branded content advertising.</p> <div id="piano-meter-offer"> <div class="ad_640"><div id="div-gpt-ad-web_incontent_pos1" class="dfp-ad dfp-web_incontent_pos1" data-ad-unit="web_incontent_pos1"> <script type="text/javascript"> if ( "undefined" !== typeof googletag ) { googletag.cmd.push( function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-web_incontent_pos1"); } ); } </script> </div></div> <p>While it’s not yet a mainstream request, BuzzFeed is starting to see requests for commerce elements in some of the RFPs it gets from agencies as advertisers start to take a unified view of performance, customer acquisition and brand advertising.</p> <p>“We developed elements that would complement advertising, rather than conflict with it,” BuzzFeed chief revenue officer Lee Brown said. “We work with partners however they want to work.”</p> <p>Affiliate marketing strategies — and budgets — have historically been handled by separate groups within brands. But as digital marketing and advertising gets more focused on business outcomes, those divisions are starting to come down. Observers expect this trend to accelerate, particularly for brands that already have affiliate operations.</p> <p>“What brands are trying to do is at least look at it all in the same place,” said Robert Glazer, the founder of marketing agency Acceleration Partners. “The more they’re able to not make this 12 different discussions with 12 different teams, that definitely benefits everyone.”</p> <div class="inline-sponsored"></div> <p>To win these deals, BuzzFeed is trying to show that programmatic advertising complements branded content, or affiliate commerce campaigns, especially for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://digiday.com/media/commerce-publishers-cozy-direct-consumer-brands/">direct-to-consumer brands</a> that are trying to diversify away from advertising on social platforms.</p> <p>Selling commerce as well as ads to advertisers is part of a broader effort at BuzzFeed to diversify its revenue. In the first nine months of 2018, the number of advertisers that have bought more than one kind of program from the publisher has increased 70 percent, a spokesperson said.</p> <div id="ipu-article-wrap"> <div class="ipu-in-article ipu-article-event" style="display: none;"> <div class="event_img"> <a id="ipu_event_img" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://digiday.com/event/october-2019-digiday-publishing-summit-europe-dpseoct19/"> <img width="401" height="281" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924im_/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?resize=401%2C281&ssl=1" class="attachment-event-promo size-event-promo" alt="" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924im_/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?w=401 401w, https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924im_/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?resize=300%2C210 300w, https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924im_/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?resize=57%2C40 57w, https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924im_/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?resize=250%2C175 250w" sizes="(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px" data-attachment-id="323376" data-permalink="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://digiday.com/?attachment_id=323376" data-orig-file="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?fit=401%2C281&ssl=1" data-orig-size="401,281" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?fit=300%2C210&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/dmbf_thumbnail_400x280-03.png?fit=401%2C281&ssl=1"/> </a> </div> <div class="event_description"> <h3><a id="ipu_event_title" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190921162924/https://digiday.com/event/october-2019-digiday-publishing-summit-europe-dpseoct19/">Digiday Publishing Summit Europe</a></h3> <div class="date">October 21 - 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