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Outbrain Test Drive - Marketing Technology Review

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We put Outbrain through its paces. Did it boost our traffic or show our great content to new audiences? Not the way we expected. More detail in our blog post http://www.technoledge.com.au/b2b-blog/outbrain-test-drive-where-are-we-going
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Page 1: Outbrain Test Drive - Marketing Technology Review

A MARKETING TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

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• A platform for Native Advertising

• Native Advertising is promotional content

designed to look like non-promotional content

We used to call this advertorial or infomercial

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Why did we test drive it?

To find out what it does

To test it for clients

To see if it did find new audiences for great content

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Geography: yes

Topics : not really

Publishers: it depends

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Source: Company Name

The best way to deeply

engage audiences

is to … serve up content

that is interesting

to them but not

necessarily related.’ Outbrain

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In his Outbrain test drive, Doug Kessler from Velocity Partners wondered if his ads would appear next to

‘things like sure-fire Abs pills or free Prada handbags.’

Yet, he never saw his ads and we didn’t see ours.

Outbrain ads pop up at the bottom of articles in online publications under headings like these ‘from around the web’ or ‘elsewhere on the web’

…see next page

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Like this

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Blog posts on core

stuff we do like Content Marketing didn’t

resonate

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… but posts on topical issues with a marketing spin did

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Doug Kessler’s top pubishers were:

Ask Men, Spry Living, Funchoke & Clear Channel

Ours were: Fairfax and News Ltd - 7 out of the top 10

Guardian, Yahoo!7 and ZDNet.

Sydney Morning Herald delivered the most clicks.

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It wasn’t.

Our post on the Joint Strike Fighter was picked up because it was topical…

…by mainstream media with mainstream audiences…

…not companies selling IT or Biotech B2B.

…oh well

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Outbrain checks that your content meets guidelines before approving publication This might take days and may require a nudge by email

…support is responsive though

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Outbrain does drive traffic to your website but only if:

• Your content is topical • It appeals to a general audience

Lack of targeting > a quick spike in traffic from visitors

who may never return (and you may not want)

If you just want Google to see a regular spike in traffic

and spend little to get it, maybe it’s worth it.

Get the details on our blog


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