• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 2, 2021

WhizzCo on Monday officially launches the Content Recommendation Yield Optimization Platform for publishers that enables them to work with multiple content recommendation engines like Outbrain simultaneously through an intuitive dashboard.

The predictive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm supported by a machine-learning neural network predicts the CPM for each individual content recommendation vendor that serves impressions.

Ryan Nathanson, senior vice president at SHE Media, part of the Penske Media Corporation (PMC), believes that creating competition, facilitating user personalization, and providing tighter editorial control for on-page content recommendations has been a challenge that WhizzCo resolves.

He said the prediction technology created a competitive content recommendation ecosystem for SHE Media Partner Network, with publishers gaining 75% increase in content recommendation CPM and an overall better user experience for editorial teams and visitors.

SHE Media wasn’t the first company to test the feature, but rather larger unnamed publisher and part of a group -- Penske Media Corporation.

Publishers today serve users from around the world across desktop, mobile, and tablets running different operating systems. One content recommendation vendor may do better one week, but not the next. No content recommendation vendor is always best across all geographies, devices, OSs, and content verticals.

In addition to Outbrain, WhizzCo supports all content recommendation vendors such as RevContent, ContentAd, NewsMax, Lockerdome, and nearly all of the 40 or so vendors worldwide. 

WhizzCo’s updated platform, the first version announced in May 2018, considers geolocation, device, site, widget layout and location, and historical performance to select the publisher network with the highest predicted CPM among all 40 content recommendation providers before serving ads to users.

The first version of this platform was announced in May 2018, but the company never formally announced the platform, which has been in "stealth mode" since.

The ability to let publishers work with multiple vendors simultaneously to optimize yield can raise revenue by 37.7% from content recommendation, according to the company.

WhizzCo developed predictive technologies in the hope that publishers can overcome the lack of real-time programmatic bidding in content recommendation. It’s about supporting the loss of revenue from Apple terminating Identifier for Advertisers, and Google’s end to third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.

Publishers choose the providers that can serve the ads on their content recommendation widgets. It lets publishers target the correct inventory with the perfect content network provider. All are seen within one intuitive platform.

IT’s a self-service platform with built-in quality filters and fraud detection tools. Publishers can integrate existing partners, and add more as needed with a few clicks.