Spy on Outbrain Ads
Outbrain sells premium native supply across big-name news and magazine sites, and since February 2025 it operates under the Teads brand. Search the live Outbrain ads we track, unwrap each tracking-wrapped click, and see the real advertiser and landing page behind every placement.
Live Outbrain creatives refreshed hourly. Free to start, then $29.99/mo; most spy tools charge $80–$400.
Unwrap Outbrain's click chain to the real advertiser.
Outbrain wraps every click in its own tracking domain, so the feed never tells you who is actually paying. We follow the redirect chain for you, without clicking the live ad.
- Hop-by-hop redirect trail from Outbrain's click wrapper through every tracker to the destination.
- Captured landing page for each ad, see the advertorial or offer page buyers are really sending traffic to.
- Advertiser name and domain back-filled onto every observation, so 'Sponsored' stops being anonymous.
Search Outbrain creatives in milliseconds.
Insurance, finance and health dominate Outbrain's paid feed in our data. Slice the whole catalogue by vertical, country, device and how long each ad has survived.
- One card per unique Outbrain creative, deduped by image and headline across placements.
- Vertical filters built from real classification: insurance (3,613 ads), finance (3,466) and health (2,608) lead the network.
- Full-text search across every Outbrain headline and body, in any language we capture.
Rank Outbrain's longest-surviving campaigns.
On a network where the minimum spend is $20 a day per campaign, an ad that has run for weeks is an ad that pays. Sort by days-running and placements to find them.
- Days-running on every creative, longevity is the closest public proxy for profitability.
- Top Outbrain advertisers by placements, then reverse-lookup any brand or landing domain.
- Steal the angle, not the ad: study the hooks that survive Outbrain's premium-publisher review.
Turn the winning Outbrain ads into your own.
Build straight from any ad in the library with AI, then push your finished creative live to your own Outbrain account.
- Creative Studio: AI titles, image upscaling and edits you direct in plain English.
- Push to Outbrain (and every other network), one creative to up to 10 campaigns at once.
- Credentials AES-256-GCM encrypted, never logged.
Then run and optimise every Outbrain campaign from one cockpit.
Manage all your native campaigns in one place and set rules that watch them against your own goals, across Outbrain, Outbrain, Adxe and more.
- One cross-network cockpit: spend, CPA, CTR and status for every campaign side by side.
- Automated IF/THEN rules built on a visual canvas, with an AI rule assistant.
- Pause weak placements and scale the winners, without living in each network's dashboard.
Query the whole Outbrain library from your code, or from Claude.
A public REST API and a hosted MCP server open the catalogue up to your scripts and your AI agents.
- Hosted MCP with 40+ tools; REST /api/v1 with per-user keys.
- Built for agents: wire up competitor briefs and round-the-clock market monitoring.
- Per-key isolation, only public data, leak-safe.
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready.
Premium unlocks everything. Most native ad spy tools charge $80–$400/mo for less coverage.
- Browse the full Outbrain ad library and every filter
- Trace every click to the advertiser's landing page
- Find and track the top Outbrain advertisers
- Creative Studio, Optimize, Copy DNA, exports, API & MCP
Free to start · cancel anytime · captured without clicking live ads. See full pricing.
Spying on Outbrain ads, answered.
Is Outbrain the same company as Teads now?
Yes. Outbrain completed its roughly $900M acquisition of Teads in February 2025 and the combined company operates under the Teads brand, though the Outbrain feed product and its advertiser platform live on. We track both labels, so ads bought through the classic Outbrain feed and the newer Teads inventory are searchable side by side.
What is the minimum budget to advertise on Outbrain?
Outbrain's self-serve platform (Amplify) requires a minimum daily budget of $20 per campaign, and Outbrain itself recommends $100–$150 a day to gather usable data. That is real money to burn on guesswork, which is why buyers research the 103,000+ Outbrain ads we track before funding their first test.
Does Outbrain have an official ad library?
No. Unlike Meta or Google, Outbrain does not publish an official ad library, so there is no first-party way to browse what advertisers are running. OpenAdLibrary fills that gap: we independently capture Outbrain placements from live publisher pages, deduplicate the creatives, and make the current corpus searchable.
Who advertises on Outbrain?
In our capture data the biggest Outbrain verticals are insurance (3,613 creatives), finance (3,466), health (2,608), e-commerce and software. Its premium news-publisher supply attracts a mix of brand advertisers and sophisticated direct-response buyers running advertorial funnels, and our landing captures show you which of the two any given ad really is.
How does Outbrain compare to Taboola for ad research?
They are the two giants of native, with similar feed formats but different supply: Outbrain historically skews toward premium news publishers, while Taboola casts a wider net. You can filter both networks in the same interface to compare which one your competitors favour.
Is it free, and how much does it cost?
It's free to start, create an account and browse 200 ads, no card required. Premium is $29.99/mo for the full library, every filter, funnel tracing, advertiser intelligence and exports. Most native ad spy tools charge $80–$400/mo. Cancel anytime.
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Every creative, the funnel behind it, and a way to act on it. Free to start, then $29.99/mo.