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June 2025	Outbrain Following the Teads acquisition, the combined company completed its corporate renaming from 'Outbrain Inc.' to 'Teads Holding Co.'.
March 26 2025	DSLReports DSLReports went fully offline on this date.
February 27 2025	DSLReports Site ceased providing the previously announced 5-minute periodic access.
February 27 2025	DSLReports DSLReports ceased providing the previously announced 5-minute hourly access.
February 2025	Outbrain Outbrain closed its acquisition of Teads following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals.
February 2 2025	DSLReports Site updated to provide full site corpus in read-only form for 5 minutes past each hour for members and guests.
February 1 2025	DSLReports DSLReports homepage became available with a notice about switching to read-only mode.
January 2025	DSLReports DSLReports went mostly offline without notice in mid-January 2025.
January 26 2025	DSLReports A new page appeared on DSLReports stating that the site is 'on vacation'.
January 15 2025	DSLReports DSLReports went offline with a gateway timeout error, sparking speculation about the site's permanent status.
January 15 2025	DSLReports DSLReports website went offline with a gateway timeout error, sparking speculation about its permanent closure.
2024	Recommender system YouTube planned to pilot a bridging-based approach for community engagement, similar to Twitter's community notes system.
December 30 2024	IMDb IMDb was closed as an independent site, with its content merged into Amazon Prime Video.
August 2024	Outbrain Outbrain and Teads announced plans to merge in an approximately $1 billion transaction.
August 21 2024	Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes rebranded its audience score as the Popcornmeter and launched a new 'Verified Hot' badge for films with a 90 percent or higher audience score among verified ticket purchasers. The badge was retroactively applied to over 200 films that met the criteria since May 2019.
April 2024	Yelp Yelp released Yelp Assistant, an AI chatbot to help users find professionals, and introduced an API for developers to search Yelp data.
April 2024	Rotten Tomatoes The Hollywood Reporter revealed that directors' past Rotten Tomatoes scores are now being discussed in film pitch meetings, with critical scores significantly influencing hiring decisions for directors.
February 2024	Outbrain Yaron Galai resigned from his position as Co-CEO of Outbrain.
February 2024	Rotten Tomatoes WIRED published an article by Christopher Null arguing that review manipulation methods are standard practices across PR agencies, challenging the criticisms raised against Rotten Tomatoes.
September 2023	Rotten Tomatoes Vulture published an article criticizing Rotten Tomatoes, exposing potential review manipulation tactics by publicity companies like Bunker 15, specifically highlighting the case of the 2018 film Ophelia.
June 1 2023	Yelp Yelp closed its offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Hamburg, Germany due to low utilization, following previous closures of New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. offices.
April 2023	Yelp Yelp introduced Yelp Guaranteed, offering up to $2,500 refund, improved search features with AI, and added video review option.
2022	Metacritic Metacritic was acquired by Fandom, Inc., marking a significant ownership change for the review aggregation platform.
April 2022	Yelp Vice published an article exposing how some Yelp Elite reviewers were misusing their status to sell reviews, raising concerns about the platform's review integrity.
April 2022	IMDb IMDb TV was rebranded as Amazon Freevee.
2021	Outbrain Outbrain updated its recommendation algorithm by incorporating machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve ad quality and recommendation relevance.
2021	Pandora Pandora reached approximately 55.9 million active monthly users and 6.4 million subscribers, demonstrating its continued growth in the music streaming market.
October 21 2021	IMDb IMDb added the ability to include podcasts (both series and episodes) to their website, as announced by an IMDb employee on their Sprinklr forums.
September 2021	Yelp Yelp announced relocation of its corporate headquarters to a smaller space at 350 Mission Street, to be subleased from Salesforce.
August 2021	Yelp Yelp added a feature to filter businesses based on their COVID precautions.
July 2021	Outbrain Outbrain went public, offering 8 million shares in the IPO and raising $160 million.
February 2021	Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes staff announced several design changes to the site, including updated film page layouts and new information display features.
January 2021	Yelp Users could provide detailed feedback on businesses' health and safety measures through the COVID-19 section.
2020	Outbrain Outbrain delivered an average of 10 billion recommendations daily for over 20,000 advertisers across 108,121 websites.
2020	Yelp Business Insider conducted an investigative report questioning Yelp's internal culture, ethics, and business practices.
2020	Metacritic Metacritic and other CNET titles were acquired by Red Ventures.
September 2020	Outbrain Taboola and Outbrain ceased merger discussions.
July 2020	Metacritic Metacritic implemented a 36-hour waiting period for user reviews on video games at launch to reduce review bombing by users who have not sufficiently played the game.
July 2020	Pandora Sirius XM acquired Stitcher for $325 million and integrated its exclusive podcasts into Pandora's service.
June 2020	Yelp Yelp launched a COVID-19 section enabling businesses to update their health and safety measures.
June 2020	IMDb The Ninth Circuit affirmed Judge Chhabria's judgment, holding the California AB-1687 statute unconstitutional as a content-based restriction violating the First Amendment.
June 5 2020	Yelp Yelp launched a tool to identify and search for black-owned businesses, with over 2.5 million searches between May 25 and July 10.
May 19 2020	Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes won the 2020 Webby People's Voice Award for Entertainment in the Web category.
April 9 2020	Yelp Due to COVID-19 pandemic impacts, Yelp announced layoffs of 1,000 employees, furloughed about 1,100 employees, reduced hours, cut executive pay, and stopped paying the CEO for the rest of 2020.
2019	Yelp A documentary film 'Billion Dollar Bully' was released, documenting Yelp's alleged business practices.
2019	IMDb IMDb changed its policy on birth names, agreeing to remove birth names that are not widely and publicly known, particularly in response to concerns from LGBTQ groups about deadnaming transgender individuals.
2019	TasteDive TasteDive was acquired by Qloo, a technology company headquartered in New York City, expanding its recommendation technology platform.
2019	Recommender system A survey of deep learning and neural methods publications in top conferences (SIGIR, KDD, WWW, RecSys, IJCAI) revealed that less than 40% of articles could be reproduced, with some conferences showing as low as 14% reproducibility.
December 2019	Yelp Yelp won a court case challenging the company's explanation of how its review recommendation software worked, with the court ruling finding no evidence of nefarious actions.
October 2019	Outbrain Outbrain announced its intention to merge with Taboola under the Taboola brand.
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