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Taboola Raises $1.5 Million First Round For Video Discovery
Taboola, an Israeli video discovery startup, has raised a $1.5 million first round from Evergreen Venture Partners, according to TechCrunch. Taboola is working on a snap-in service that other video...
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Video Discovery Engine Taboola Gets $4.5 Million Second Round
Online video discovery engine Taboola has secured $4.5 million in a second round of funding. Previous investor Evergreen Ventures led the round, which also included funds from a new group of Israeli...
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Video widget maker Taboola raises another $10 million
Taboola, which powers video recommendation widgets for publishers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and USA Today, has a secured a Series C funding round of $10 million. The...
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Simon & Schuster to stream book videos on Roku and Blinkx
In an effort to market its books on more channels, Simon & Schuster is pushing into online video. The publisher says its book and author videos are already viewed 1 million times each month and...
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Video recommendation engine Taboola raises $15M in fourth funding round
Taboola, a video recommendation engine that’s used by sites like CNN and Bloomberg, has raised $15 million in its fourth funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to $40 million. The round...
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“Recommended for you”: the fight to decide what you read next
“Content engines” are little known to those outside the media sphere even though nearly everyone has used one – typically by clicking on a story in the “read next” or “Recommended for you” boxes that...
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New Taboola tool lets you tweak news sites in the same way as a Facebook feed
You know those “recommended for you” stories about financial doom and terrible cancers that you see all over the internet? Well, you might finally get to zap those stupid stories and decide for...
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Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014, hires first CFO
Outbrain, a startup that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve stories and ads to readers, will reportedly seek $200-$300 million from Wall Street in an initial public offering. The...
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As paid “stories” about cancer and financial ruin flourish on the web, are...
Call it “native advertising” or “sponsored stories” or “content marketing” – whatever your buzzword of choice, more publishers and advertisers are embracing the tactic, which involves packaging ads to...
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NewsCred gets $25M to expand its growing media tech empire
Media and ad people unfamiliar with NewsCred should start paying attention. The New York start-up delivers articles from the likes of the New York Times and the Economist to publishers and Fortune 500...
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Jinni Raises $1M for Video Discovery
Jinni, a video search and discovery service, has raised $1 million from Israeli investment collective Startup Factory, according to Globes Online. Jinni doesn’t have a live site, but it appears to be...
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Taboola Raises $4.5M, Scores CNN Deal
Taboola, a video discovery startup that launched at NewTeeVee Live 2007, announced today it has raised $4.5 million in second-round funding from return backer Evergreen Venture Partners and angel...
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Vid-Biz: Comcast, Taboola, SeaChange
Comcast Working on IPTV and Video Convergence Project; “Excalibur” will reportedly be a “services overlay” that puts IP services into a common provision and management system. (Cable Digital News)...
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Hearst Chooses Taboola for In-Page Video Recommendations
In an effort to build engagement and increase video views across its properties, local TV news station owner Hearst has chosen Taboola for all its local TV stations sites to provide additional video...
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What Works: The Economics of Good Enough
After a brief hiatus, Om Says is back. In the latest edition, I look at the concept of good enough, the Praeto principle and how it applies to today's company - regardless of its business focus -- has...
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Taboola updates recommendation tools for publishers
Taboola is giving its publishers more control over the automated video recommendations that are served up on their websites. To highlight these changes and to take advantage of them, Taboola just...
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Taboola goes international, launches sponsored video placement
Video recommendations provider Taboola is offering a new product to its customers that will allow them to boost viewership with paid placement in its video widgets. The company has also found success...
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With 100m uniques, Taboola adds live video discovery
Video discovery startup Taboola has been growing fast, adding top publishing partners like The Washington Post, as well as expanding into the live streaming video vertical. Those new partners have...
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Sector RoadMap: Content personalization in 2013
Content owners, whether they are publishers, retailers, or marketers, are always looking for new ways to deliver a unique experience to their customers. We call this content personalization. Key trends...
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Digital content discovery: a market analysis
This report details publishers' best practices for using content discovery engines and marketing vehicles like native advertising. Digital content discovery: a market analysis originally published by...
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