Outbrain — owned by Teads since 2025 — publishes no ad library. We maintain the independent one: 92,290 live Outbrain creatives with advertisers, longevity and landing pages, and the workflow to use them.
Spend charts only update after the race is over, so to see what advertisers are scaling right now you read live native ad capture for longevity, spread, and variant signals. Here is the method, with real numbers from 589,000+ captured creatives.
DTC brands quietly buy native ads next to the arbitrage and nutra crowd, and here is a repeatable, data-backed method for surfacing which ones are live on Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent this week, by category.
An ad that keeps spending week after week is telling you something a one-off scrape never can: here is how to rank native ads by lifespan, why longevity is the cleanest profitability signal on the open web, and how to run the analysis yourself.
Folklore says nutra and crypto own native, but across 589,000+ live-captured creatives finance, insurance and health actually lead; here's the method to measure native ads by vertical and network yourself.
Most "top advertiser" lists are guesses; this one is rebuilt from 589,000 live native creatives, classified by real advertiser, network and vertical, then ranked by spread and longevity.
Meta and Google run public ad libraries; Taboola, Outbrain and MGID never did, so here is what an open native ad library has to capture, and why that gap sat empty for a decade.
If Meta is 90% of your spend, you don't have a marketing channel, you have a single point of failure; here's how to add native as a second engine and use competitive recon to de-risk every step.
Native media buying is a four-part loop (offer, creative, bid, scale), and this 2026 playbook walks each step with concrete settings, live cross-network examples, and the metrics that actually move money.
The Teads merger killed off Outbrain's per-creative competitive data, so here is how to capture live Outbrain/Teads ads from publisher pages instead: find rivals' creatives, trace each click to its landing page, and read longevity instead of fake spend numbers.
Taboola, Teads (Outbrain), MGID, and Revcontent each reward different ecommerce categories and margins, and our June 2026 capture data shows exactly where your product type actually has demand before you spend a dollar.
Outbrain bought Teads and the parent now trades as Teads, so here is how to compare the two networks using live ad data instead of vendor claims.
A media buyer's honest comparison of native ads and Facebook ads for DTC in 2026, covering CPC, iOS signal loss, creative, and intent, backed by the live native volume OpenAdLibrary tracks across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, and Revcontent.
Outbrain bought Teads, then took its name and Nasdaq ticker, and our live capture data shows the Outbrain engine still serves nearly all the volume.
Thirty real native ads captured live off Taboola, Outbrain and MGID in June 2026, each labeled with the actual advertiser, the network, and how long it has been running.
Outbrain bought Teads in 2025 and rebranded the combined company as Teads; here is what the merged native, video, and CTV platform actually looks like, and how to study live inventory before you spend.
Outbrain is now Teads on paper, but the native engine underneath is the same auction, and here is how its bidding, formats, pricing, and live creatives actually work for advertisers in 2026.
Native ads hide in plain sight at the bottom of every article, and here is how to find who is really buying them, read the creative and supply chain behind each placement, and trace the click to the landing page without ever firing a live ad.
There is no single best native ad spy tool, but there is a clear best fit for each job, broken down here by coverage, creative quality, landing-page tracing, and price.
Adbeat and Anstrex both get called "ad spy tools," but one maps enterprise display spend and the other rips native landers for affiliates; here's the honest head-to-head, plus where an open native-first index changes the math.
A practitioner's head-to-head on AdPlexity, Anstrex, SpyOver and OpenAdLibrary, judged on price, network coverage, geos, landing-page capture, history and the supply-chain data each one actually exposes.
"Free native ad spy tool" gets searched far more than it gets answered honestly, so here is what is genuinely free for researching Taboola, Outbrain, MGID and Revcontent ads, and exactly where the limits bite.
A native ad spy tool turns the scattered, public-but-invisible world of Taboola and Outbrain into a searchable record: the real creative, the advertiser behind it, and the landing page the click actually leads to.
A practitioner's read on native advertising in 2026, built from 589,000+ live-captured creatives: who is advertising, which verticals dominate, and what ad longevity really tells you about the winners.
A practitioner's playbook for running native profitably as an affiliate in 2026: offer selection, creative angles, pre-landers, the test loop, and using live competitor ads to find proven winners and new geos.
We ranked the major native ad networks by the only metric that predicts where your money goes: how many live ads each one is actually running right now, pulled straight from OpenAdLibrary's index of 589,000+ captured creatives.
Outbrain is a major native advertising network that serves content-recommendation ads across premium publisher sites, often as "recommended" link widgets.
