India.com strikes multi-year partnership with Outbrain

Outbrain's guided personalisation platform will deliver content recommendations, real-time decision-making tools and analysis to support editorial teams

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | July 17, 2015

India.com and Outbrain, a leading global content discovery platform, announced the details of a multi-year strategic partnership yesterday. The deal will empower the media company and its properties, which include Zeenews.com,dnaindia.com, Bollywoodlife.com, Cricketcountry.com, OnCars.in, Prepsure.com, BGR.in, Careerfundas.com,TheHealthSite.com, Travel.india.com and Video.india.com. It aims to fully leverage Outbrain's guided personalisationplatform, which includes Outbrain Engage, a full-stack software solution providing services such as content performance analytics and editorial decision support tools.

The partnership will empower India.com to manage their own content recommendations while maximising the monetisation of their audience to other content publishers, driving increased audience engagement and providing key insights about their core digital users. The site currently receives over 45 million unique visitors per month. Worldwide, Outbrain serves an additional 200 billion recommendations per month to consumers in over 150 countries. Its reach combines premium local publishers, as well as global sites like CNN, ESPN, The Guardian, Le Monde, Time Inc. and Mashable.

India.com also confirmed their plans to implement Outbrain's recently launched product, Native In-Feed. The product, announced last month, allows publishers Outbrain platform to serve native, in-stream advertising for the first time. Through Native In-Feed, Outbrain partners will now be able to sell and deliver their own campaigns to their audiences.

Sandeep Amar, Chief Operating Officer at India.com, said, “We are really happy to partner with Outbrain, and use their technology and products to make sure our users and advertisers benefit from it. We are confident they will deliver the highest quality recommendations and best monetisation options for India.com. We look forward to bringing Outbrain's solutions to our advertising partners in India.”

Gulshan Verma

Gulshan Verma, General Manager SEA & India at Outbrain, commented, “Over the last few months, we've increasingly observed publishers integrating their services into their sales platforms, allowing for more native placements. Previously, most Outbrain content was contained in a widget at the bottom of the page but, by working with the publishers' direct sales teams, we have now started serving content in premium locations like right rails, homepages, mobile pages, thus providing better a customer experience and monetisation opportunities for publishers in India.”

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