The Outbrain–Teads merger produced one omnichannel platform under the Teads name. What advertisers actually get, how it compares with the feed networks, and who should buy it.
No native network publishes CTR benchmarks. Here are the bands practitioners actually report by placement, vertical and network — and the observable signal that predicts profit better than CTR does.
Outbrain sells premium Tier-1 editorial reach under strict policies; MGID sells flexible, affiliate-friendly traffic across Tier-2/3 geos. What 171,000+ live creatives reveal about which network fits your offer.
Insurance is the third-largest vertical in our live native index. Where its 22,000+ creatives concentrate is a working map of which networks insurance advertisers should buy first.
Native feeds don't sell job-title targeting — the B2B advertisers who win make the headline and the funnel do the qualifying. Live examples from the index, the three plays that keep working, and how to pick a network.
Live campaigns — from enterprise content programs to $950-audit lead gen — show how software companies make native feeds produce B2B pipeline without LinkedIn's CPCs.
Since the Outbrain merger, Teads is one buying point for outstream video, display and the native feed. Here is how access, formats, targeting, pricing and your first campaign actually work.
Taboola, Outbrain (Teads), Revcontent, MediaGo, Microsoft Audience Network, Yahoo, Dianomi and TripleLift — eight MGID alternatives compared with live ad counts, entry bars and honest fit guidance.
Outbrain enforces the strictest creative and landing-page policies in native advertising. Here is why ads get rejected, how the review process actually works, and the checklist that gets you approved.
Outbrain monetizes publisher sites with sponsored-content feeds. Here is what it takes to get accepted, what actually drives RPM, and the contract terms to check before signing.
Outbrain targeting in four layers — environment, audience, context, and supply — with the launch-day defaults, the options to earn with data, and the bid strategy pairings that keep the algorithm fed.
Account, pixel, structure, bids, creatives, review, section optimization — the complete Outbrain campaign setup walkthrough, with the practitioner details the official onboarding skips.
Your first native bid should buy data, not margin. Commonly reported starting ranges for Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent by geo and device — and the adjustment playbook that follows.
A native ad networks list with receipts: the seven major networks of 2026 — Taboola, Outbrain (Teads), MGID, RevContent, the Microsoft Audience Network, MediaGo and Yahoo — each with live creative counts from OpenAdLibrary's million-creative capture corpus, who each network suits, and the churn data that governs them all.
Outbrain has no rate card — geo sets the price. Practitioner-reported CPC ranges by country tier, what actually drives the differences, and a one-week method to find your real number.
Insurance, finance and health dominate Outbrain — 108,000+ live creatives say so. What the live vertical data shows, why the ranking holds, and how to pick a vertical you can win.
Outbrain rewards affiliates who run compliant advertorial funnels for lead-gen and considered purchases. The rules, the verticals that convert, and the math to run before you spend.
From premium news anchors to the long tail: where Outbrain placements actually live, how the Teads merger widened the map, and how to check any site in under a minute.
Feed CTRs that look tiny next to social are normal on Outbrain. What practitioners actually report, why CTR is a pricing lever rather than a goal, and how to read a healthy campaign.
Outbrain permits affiliate marketing but rejects bare affiliate links. Here is what the policy actually blocks, the compliant funnel that passes review, and the shortcuts that end accounts.
Outbrain built its name on premium news placements, but its exchange spans a long tail where quality varies wildly. What actually determines the traffic you get — and how to audit it.
The platform will accept the minimum; it just won't teach you anything at that spend. How to size an Outbrain test from your CPA instead of from the floor.
SOFTWARE is a top-six vertical on almost every major native network we track. Who actually runs B2B native, which networks fit, and the playbook that makes the lead economics work.
Brands, performance advertisers and arbitrage players: the three layers of Outbrain's advertiser base, mapped with live index data and real running creatives.
An independent Outbrain optimization playbook: platform splits, headline testing, section pruning and conversion bidding — illustrated with live, long-running Outbrain creatives.
Health is native advertising's biggest vertical: 24,472 live creatives in the index. These 12 captured ads show the authority, contrarian, curiosity and avoid-list hooks that keep winning.
An evidence-backed verdict on who advertises with Outbrain, what it costs, where it shines, and where it can waste your budget after the Teads merger.
Outbrain prices clicks by auction, not rate card. Here are the CPC ranges buyers actually report, the real cost of a decision-grade test, and how the network's premium-editorial skew and Teads merger shape what you pay.
One master image, four crops, every major native network covered. The working image-size defaults for Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, Revcontent, MediaGo, MSN and Yahoo — plus the crop-survival rules that matter more than pixels.
50 real headlines from live native ads — 16 of them ran 30+ days — grouped into ten swipeable patterns, with the longevity data that separates proven angles from noise.
Insurance is the #3 native advertising vertical, with 22,427 live creatives in our index. This playbook maps where the volume runs, the funnel that converts, the angles that survive, and the compliance lines that end accounts.
Taboola, MGID, Revcontent, MediaGo, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Demand Gen, Nativo, TripleLift: nine real Outbrain alternatives sized with live index data instead of vendor marketing.
Outbrain, MGID, Revcontent, MediaGo, the Microsoft Audience Network and five more Taboola alternatives, compared by what advertisers actually run on each network — not by sales-page claims.
Outbrain — owned by Teads since 2025 — publishes no ad library. We maintain the independent one: 92,290 live Outbrain creatives with advertisers, longevity and landing pages, and the workflow to use them.
Spend charts only update after the race is over, so to see what advertisers are scaling right now you read live native ad capture for longevity, spread, and variant signals. Here is the method, with real numbers from 589,000+ captured creatives.
DTC brands quietly buy native ads next to the arbitrage and nutra crowd, and here is a repeatable, data-backed method for surfacing which ones are live on Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent this week, by category.
An ad that keeps spending week after week is telling you something a one-off scrape never can: here is how to rank native ads by lifespan, why longevity is the cleanest profitability signal on the open web, and how to run the analysis yourself.
Folklore says nutra and crypto own native, but across 589,000+ live-captured creatives finance, insurance and health actually lead; here's the method to measure native ads by vertical and network yourself.
Most "top advertiser" lists are guesses; this one is rebuilt from 589,000 live native creatives, classified by real advertiser, network and vertical, then ranked by spread and longevity.
Meta and Google run public ad libraries; Taboola, Outbrain and MGID never did, so here is what an open native ad library has to capture, and why that gap sat empty for a decade.
If Meta is 90% of your spend, you don't have a marketing channel, you have a single point of failure; here's how to add native as a second engine and use competitive recon to de-risk every step.
Native media buying is a four-part loop (offer, creative, bid, scale), and this 2026 playbook walks each step with concrete settings, live cross-network examples, and the metrics that actually move money.
The Teads merger killed off Outbrain's per-creative competitive data, so here is how to capture live Outbrain/Teads ads from publisher pages instead: find rivals' creatives, trace each click to its landing page, and read longevity instead of fake spend numbers.
Taboola, Teads (Outbrain), MGID, and Revcontent each reward different ecommerce categories and margins, and our June 2026 capture data shows exactly where your product type actually has demand before you spend a dollar.
Outbrain bought Teads and the parent now trades as Teads, so here is how to compare the two networks using live ad data instead of vendor claims.
A media buyer's honest comparison of native ads and Facebook ads for DTC in 2026, covering CPC, iOS signal loss, creative, and intent, backed by the live native volume OpenAdLibrary tracks across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, and Revcontent.
Outbrain bought Teads, then took its name and Nasdaq ticker, and our live capture data shows the Outbrain engine still serves nearly all the volume.
Thirty real native ads captured live off Taboola, Outbrain and MGID in June 2026, each labeled with the actual advertiser, the network, and how long it has been running.
Outbrain bought Teads in 2025 and rebranded the combined company as Teads; here is what the merged native, video, and CTV platform actually looks like, and how to study live inventory before you spend.
Outbrain is now Teads on paper, but the native engine underneath is the same auction, and here is how its bidding, formats, pricing, and live creatives actually work for advertisers in 2026.
Native ads hide in plain sight at the bottom of every article, and here is how to find who is really buying them, read the creative and supply chain behind each placement, and trace the click to the landing page without ever firing a live ad.
Adbeat and Anstrex both get called "ad spy tools," but one maps enterprise display spend and the other rips native landers for affiliates; here's the honest head-to-head, plus where an open native-first index changes the math.
A practitioner's head-to-head on AdPlexity, Anstrex, SpyOver and OpenAdLibrary, judged on price, network coverage, geos, landing-page capture, history and the supply-chain data each one actually exposes.
"Free native ad spy tool" gets searched far more than it gets answered honestly, so here is what is genuinely free for researching Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent ads, and exactly where the limits bite.
A native ad spy tool turns the scattered, public-but-invisible world of Taboola and Outbrain into a searchable record: the real creative, the advertiser behind it, and the landing page the click actually leads to.
A practitioner's read on native advertising in 2026, built from 589,000+ live-captured creatives: who is advertising, which verticals dominate, and what ad longevity really tells you about the winners.
A practitioner's playbook for running native profitably as an affiliate in 2026: offer selection, creative angles, pre-landers, the test loop, and using live competitor ads to find proven winners and new geos.
We ranked the major native ad networks by the only metric that predicts where your money goes: how many live ads each one is actually running right now, pulled straight from OpenAdLibrary's index of 589,000+ captured creatives.
Outbrain is a major native advertising network that serves content-recommendation ads across premium publisher sites, often as "recommended" link widgets.
