Time Inc. Locks in Outbrain's Headline Recommendations in $100 Million Deal

Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher, has struck a deal making Outbrain the exclusive external provider of recommended stories for Time Inc.'s websites, including Time.com and People.com. Until now, Time Inc. had worked with a mix of the companies whose ubiquitous content-recommendation widgets help push traffic around the web. The pact is worth more than $100 million to Time Inc.As a "content recommendation" or "content discovery" company, Outbrain puts links beneath articles published across a variety of websites, including CNN.com, Slate and ESPN. Media companies and marketers pay Outbrain to place those links on publishers' sites in order to drive traffic to their content. Outbrain shares this revenue with the publishers where the links appear."We selected Outbrain not only because the revenues were higher than others but because its engine drives better recommendations than others," Andy Blau, senior VP and group GM of ad sales at Time Inc., said of the company's deal, which it plans to announce Tuesday. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2014-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]

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