NY Startup Outbrain has acquired Visual Revenue, an editorial data startup. Visual Revenue allows news editors to make layout decisions for their websites based on a prediction of how well a story might do. The algorithms can track what headlines might catch more readers, but the company still says [Full Story…]
#Outbrain Outwits its Competitors
February 7, 2013 at 3:32 pm
Outbrain has a lot of influence, money and competitors. According to paidContent, the NY-based company has a huge number of users on the Internet, but few have heard of it. But everyone has seen the “We Recommend” and “From Around the Web” headings at the end of news stories. Outbrain’s [Full Story…]
#Techmeme Founder Rivera Questions Algorithms at NY Event
December 2, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Speaking at a NY Outbrain event, Gabe Rivera said algorithms will never match human abilities. Rivera said, “A lot of people who think they can go all the way with the automated approach fail to realize a news story has become obsolete," adding that a story can be quickly supplanted even if it's [Full Story…]
NY-Based Content Recommendation Engines Compete for Recognition
December 22, 2011 at 4:05 pm
NY-based nRelate, a content recommendation engine, contacted BetaBeat after the news site wrote a post about Outbrain's $35 million fund raise. Outbrain, a viable competitor also based in NY, recently announced a self-serve platform which addresses the criticism of nRelate that small publishers [Full Story…]
Content Discovery Site Outbrain Closes Series D Round
December 15, 2011 at 9:37 am
NY-based Outbrain announced this week that it has closed its Series D funding round of $35 million, led by Index Ventures. The company, a content discovery platform, has raised at total $64 million total. According to a press release on City Biz List, "Outbrain's content recommendations are viewed [Full Story…]
Outbrain Founder Talks Algortihms
October 12, 2011 at 10:04 am
Yaron Galai's fourth company,NY-based Outbrain, offers online readers a selection of interesting stories to click on after reading an article. “If you’re reading an article about Steve Jobs, and we send you to another article about Steve Jobs, or about the iPhone, yes that is relevant, but [Full Story…]
NY-Based Outbrain Recommends Stories Readers Want to Read
July 14, 2011 at 10:03 am
Outbrain, a NY-based recommendation startup, is helping steer readers to stories they will want to read by noting which hold readers' attention and presenting comparable ones. The service links readers to stories on third-party sites within the network and provides multiple sources to choose from [Full Story…]
Blog, News Recommendation Engine Raises $12 Million
February 12, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Outbrain raised the sum in a second round of funding, led by new investor Carmel Ventures with participation from previous backers Gemini Israel Funds, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GlenRock Israel according to paidContent. CenterNetworks reports that the NY-based startup has raised $18 million [Full Story…]
Outbrain, b5media Partner
October 2, 2008 at 5:42 pm
b5media, the blog network, will install the ratings and recommendations widget created by Outbrain, a NYC-based content ratings and recommendation provider, on the more than 300 blogs in its network. Visitors to blogs in the network will be able to rate the quality of the content and [Full Story…]
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