Outbrain’s New Outloud, A Powerful Paid Recirculation Tool (CEO Interview)
Today, Outbrain officially announced its business model with the launch of Outloud, a paid product for content recirculation and link recommendations within the growing Outbrain publisher network.
There can only be a single #1 recommendation platform for blogs: Outbrain Closes $5M A-Round
Outbrain announced the closing of a $5M A-round investment today, led by Gemini Israel Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Outbrain’s seed investor GlenRock Israel, also participated in the round.
Outbrain is a content recommendation and rating platform for blogs, news and RSS content. Outbrain’s star ranking widget (as seen on VC Cafe) allows users to [...]
Combine the Collective Intelligence – Five Questions to OutBrain’s CEO
I recently had the pleasure to “e-meet” Yaron Galai, Co-Founder and CEO of Outbrain, the company behind the voting widget in the bottom of this post.
Yaron was kind enough to answer 5 questions for VC Cafe. Without further ado, see the scoop below.
Question: In simple words, What is Outbrain?
Yaron: Outbrain is a platform for ratings [...]
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