Nativo vs. Outbrain

It is perfect for clients who want to create native stories. Setup is easy and it lets you edit the campaign name even after it has run. Reporting tools are pretty easy to use.

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Outbrain is well suited when you have the time to deal with all of its features and complexities. It allows you to customize the content and where your content will be promoted, as well as having a more sophisticated targeting feature. However, for the user like me, who is used to a simpler dashboard, Outbrain can be a tad too overwhelming.

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• Easy to set up
• Good reporting
• Good support
• Provide network advertisers for unsold inventory

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• Provides additional reach through outlets your audience may live [in], but you wouldn't be able to target otherwise.
• Easy to use and implement. Wasn't much of a learning curve at all which can be very appealing when using promotional platforms like this.
• Great customer service response. They typically are very responsive in answering your questions and also have a general FAQ page to filter through if you aren't one to hop in the phone.

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• It would be nice if they provide dashboards for individual advertisers (campaigns) instead of the dry tables.
• It would be nice if the current dashboard could show impressions and clicks and CTR on one chart and let users filter by campaign.

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• I wish there was an activity log (i.e. Changes made to account over time) to help troublesome where the advertiser made a mistake OR needs to make an adjustment
• A big caveat is when running CBS (i.e. Target CPA) you cannot adjust your bids since this bidding strategy is automated. After a while you will be limited by the number of publishers you can block. There are over ten thousand publishers but you can only block 1,000.

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The use case is very obvious, brand awareness and low cost conversions because of its reach in billions. The platform is easy to use, well sorted and defined with good click optimized algorithms and brands can use it without hesitation. If monitored well and optimized accordingly, this can prove to be one of the best advertising channels.

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We had an account manager assigned to us, but they really didn't offer too much help outside of the financial side of things. We used the self-serve platform with mild suggestions every few weeks from our reps amounting to "spend a bit more here."

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When we're recommending a Native campaign, Outbrain is our platform of choice. Taboola is pretty comparable, but the setup with Outbrain is a little easier, difficult to comment on the quality of traffic they drive, but know that Outbrain is acceptable. Yahoo Gemini does a few different things, so not a true Native-only platform, but you do have more control of ad formats and how they appear, which is nice.

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• Overall the results are positive.
• We are able to monetize the unsold inventory through its network.

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• More Impressions - We were able to increase the number of impressions we get from display advertising by adding this new space, which is in addition to the typical skyscraper ads we've done.
• More Visibility - We've been working on ideas to improve branding, and Outbrain did provide an additional space to advertise in.

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