5 categories · RankedTeads
Teads is an omnichannel advertising platform for brands, which it describes as an outcomes platform · teads.com ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Content marketing, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
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Why models recommend it
“Taboola and Outbrain dominate the content recommendation space with massive reach and premium publisher networks”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Outbrain is often preferred by premium publishers and offers advanced AI-driven personalization and higher CTRs”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice
“For Advertisers (Tier 1 / Brand Safe): Taboola, Outbrain, Nativo, TripleLift, Yahoo Native, NewsBreak”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Choose Taboola/Outbrain if you want maximum reach and ease of use for driving traffic or awareness.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Taboola and Outbrain - Content Recommendation Widgets ... repeatedly called out for low-intent, curiosity-driven traffic and poor transparency”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Platforms to Avoid on a Tight Budget - Taboola/Outbrain managed accounts: Often require $3,000–$5,000+/month minimums”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Platforms to Avoid (or approach carefully) with a Small Budget ... Outbrain: Generally requires a minimum of $600 per month”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Repeated complaints about fake/bot traffic delivered for paid campaigns, unexpected extra charges, refusal of refunds”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Teads, over the 227 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 206 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 122 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 117 | 29 | Compare → | |
| 104 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 40 | Compare → | |
| 73 | 2 | View → | |
| 44 | 3 | View → | |
| 44 | 2 | View → | |
| 33 | 2 | View → | |
| 22 | 4 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Teads →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Teads's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- brands
- Customers named
- ALL Accor, Leica, Skoda, Lenovo, BYD Shark 6, Telepass, Vattenfall, E.ON
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Founded
- 2005
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 189 of the 227 answers that named Teads and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
438 of the 496 domain citations in answers naming Teads came from a third party's page. Fifty-eight were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 87 | undated | |||
| Blog | 13 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page teads.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.