Developing a Mobile App Might Not Be The Best Idea

Are you a content publisher thinking of developing an app for a proprietary platform, such as Facebook or a mobile device? Have you stopped and asked yourself whether there is any intrinsic benefit to building this app versus building out your mobile website? When it comes to mobile apps, the latest hype in app development, [...]

Is the app economy killing online publishers?

On October 18, 2011, in Apps, For Publishers, Mobile, by Yaron Galai

A few months ago I tweeted this: “If I were a publisher I would either: a) pull my app from the App Store or b) invest all available cash in Apple stock.” The latter piece of advice was probably pretty solid, if not very practical — Apple’s stock has been performing like no other in [...]

Publisher Challenges With Mobile Strategies (Digiday Mobile Conference)

On September 21, 2011, in Boston Globe, Clients, Digiday, Digiday Mobile, For Publishers, Mobile, Slate, by Kelly Reeves

This morning, we were fortunate to participate in a conversation at the Digiday Mobile event in New York. Outbrain SVP John LoGioco moderated a talk with Jeff Moriarty, Vice President of Digital Products at the newly relaunched The Boston Globe and Brendan Monaghan, Vice President of Business Development at The Slate Group about how publishers [...]

Three Trends in Mobile Traffic That Are Beating The Web

On September 20, 2011, in For Marketers, For Publishers, Mobile, Mobile recommendations, by John LoGioco

Premium publishers rely on Outbrain to serve recommendations to interesting content (e.g., articles, videos and slideshows) to their readers when they are consuming content on their websites. Recently, we launched Outbrain for Mobile, which serves recommendations to readers when they are consuming content on a publisher’s mobile-optimized site from their smartphones. After several months of working [...]

Cost vs. Return: Marketers & Publishers Share The Mobile Pain, Part 2

On August 17, 2011, in For Marketers, For Publishers, Mobile, Mobile advertising, Monetization, by John LoGioco

Yesterday, I kicked off a two-part series investigating the pain points that marketers and publishers experience with their mobile strategies to offer some ideas on how to improve efforts. In Part 1, I chatted about marketers’ struggle with low engagement with the apps they create and the opportunity to first optimize their websites for mobile [...]

Cost vs. Return: Marketers & Publishers Share The Mobile Pain, Part 1

On August 16, 2011, in For Marketers, For Publishers, Mobile, by John LoGioco

At Outbrain, we are fortunate to work with both marketers and publishers on both desktop and mobile initiatives. In recent meetings, when discussing mobile strategies, we are hearing both sides complain about the ROI around their mobile efforts, largely due to low levels of engagement (for marketers) and a monetization disconnect (for publishers). In this [...]

Introducing Outbrain for Mobile

Today, we’re announcing a new solution for publishers — Outbrain for Mobile, the same great product on a different screen — now available for all publishers using the Outbrain service. Publishers that offer websites optimized for small, mobile screens know how difficult it is to do two things that come so naturally on the “regular” [...]