Outbrain

American web advertising platform

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June 2025 Following the Teads acquisition, the combined company completed its corporate renaming from 'Outbrain Inc.' to 'Teads Holding Co.'.
February 2025 Outbrain closed its acquisition of Teads following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
August 2024 Outbrain and Teads announced plans to merge in an approximately $1 billion transaction.
February 2024 Yaron Galai resigned from his position as Co-CEO of Outbrain.
2021 Outbrain updated its recommendation algorithm by incorporating machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve ad quality and recommendation relevance.
July 2021 Outbrain went public, offering 8 million shares in the IPO and raising $160 million.
2020 Outbrain delivered an average of 10 billion recommendations daily for over 20,000 advertisers across 108,121 websites.
September 2020 Taboola and Outbrain ceased merger discussions.
October 2019 Outbrain announced its intention to merge with Taboola under the Taboola brand.
February 2019 Outbrain acquired Ligatus.
July 2017 Outbrain acquired Zemanta.
2016 Outbrain acquired technology company Revee.
March 2013 Outbrain acquired Visual Revenue, a predictive analytics company.
December 2012 Outbrain acquired Scribit, a content curation platform.
November 2012 Outbrain voluntarily removed low-quality links from its platform, acknowledging this decision would result in a 25% revenue reduction, prioritizing long-term reputation with publishers and users.
February 2011 Outbrain acquired Surphase, a related content recommendation platform.

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