Outbrain, a technology platform for the open web, has announced a strategic partnership with Cedara, the first end-to-end carbon intelligence platform, to support Outbrain and its customers’ sustainability and decarbonisation efforts.
The partnership will allow Outbrain to share in-depth emissions measurements with its advertiser partners, including those running on the company’s newly launched branding platform, Onyx by Outbrain. It will also enable the company to comprehensively measure carbon emissions across its global organisation.
The company also announced the launch of its “Smart-Throttling” tool - a response prediction model which uses machine learning to predict and recommend the most valuable requests for its Demand-Side-Platform (DSP) partners.
Outbrain will leverage Cedara’s technology to assess its own current baseline, analyse data to identify areas for improvement, and empower advertisers to gain visibility into the emissions derived from their campaigns with Outbrain. The partnership also supports the industry-wide initiative Ad Net Zero, aimed at decarbonising the production, distribution, and publication of advertising.
Yaron Galai, co-founder and co-CEO of Outbrain, said Outbrain is committed to shaping a better and more sustainable digital advertising ecosystem.
"Our partnership with Cedara combined with our Smart-Throttling tool will give us another avenue to support our premium publisher partners while addressing the need to reduce carbon emissions and ensure advertisers have a transparent way to measure the impact of their campaigns," he said.
David Shaw, CEO and co-founder of Cedara, said Cedara is thrilled to further enable Outbrain's commitment to sustainability, while supporting their publisher and advertiser partners' own paths to net zero.
"We applaud Outbrain's industry-leading efforts at both an organisational and technological level in decarbonisation," he said.
“Our direct integrations with many of the most prestigious publishers across the globe make us supply-path-optimised by design, and this added layer will enable us to strengthen our focus on sustainability to continue building deeper partnerships with advertisers.”\Outbrain has also recently implemented initiatives to drive the sustainability agenda including the introduction of OBGreen - an employee advocacy group focused on reducing the company’s carbon footprint - and updated Global Green Office Guidelines to set sustainability standards across Outbrain’s offices and operational practices.
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