Ranked by paid traffic
Advertorial examples & landing pages
Advertorial examples from native and social funnels that are still spending. Story-style pages from Meta, Taboola, and Outbrain with the ads attached.
Advertorial examples media buyers are funding now
Advertorial examples age badly when they're just screenshots. This list is sorted by current spend and runtime across Meta and native networks, so the pages near the top are angles still working in health, finance, and DTC.
Expect editorial pre-sells, listicles, and story pages. Months of spend usually means the angle clears CPA.
What is an advertorial?
An advertorial is a paid piece written like an article. It educates and tells a story before it asks for the click or the buy. The job is to warm cold traffic from native and social, where a hard sell dies.
Strong ones open with curiosity, reveal slowly, drop proof inside the narrative, and hold the CTA until the reader is already leaning in. Plain text often beats heavy design because people came for content.
Advertorial vs sponsored content
People mix these up. An advertorial is usually advertiser-written sales copy in editorial clothing, pointed at an offer. Sponsored content is often built with a publisher and leans toward awareness.
For acquisition, the advertorial does the heavy lifting: pre-sell, then hand off to a product or sales page. Open the linked ads on any example here to see how the hook pairs with the story.