Outbrain looks beyond related links to help people find interesting content through personalized recommendations.
The world is brainwashed by relevancy
For years, content recommendations have been driven by relatedness. But we've found that the best way to deeply engage audiences is to tailor our recommendations for each and every person and instead serve up content that is interesting to them but not necessarily related.
What makes content interesting?
Many factors influence our recommendations, but they largely fall into 4 categories:
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Popularity
Trending and social popularity
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Contextual
Related to the page you're on
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Behavioral
Based on general audience behavior, i.e., people who read this also read that
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Personal
Filtered for each person, not recommending something you've already seen
Engagement matters. Our #1 goal is to keep people happily clicking, reading & watching so we closely monitor the data from every single recommendation we make, analyzing two main factors:
The Click
Which headlines & pieces of content do people actually want to click on and consume?
This tells us which pieces of content are the most engaging to the audience, enabling us to serve up those links more often in order to keep people clicking, reading & watching even longer.
And it doesn't stop there. We're continually optimizing our recommendations in order to deliver the web's most engaging content to people (and as a result, also deliver the most engaged audience as possible to our partners).
Everybody wins!
Post-Click Satisfaction
Do people consume even more content on the site as a result of The Click? Read more? Watch longer?
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