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Lemp: RevContent powers recommendation widgets for Inc, Newsweek, and CBS

John Lemp · 1023 Will He Win Battle For Bottom of Blog · May 13, 2018 · at 1:35

John Lemp, founder of native advertising platform RevContent, describes the company's major publisher clients.

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“So, you know, typically you know, we work with sites like Inc, Fast Company Newsweek, CBS and we you know, if you look at the end of an article, you'll see recommended articles.”

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The claim, plainly

RevContent powers content recommendation and advertising widgets for publishers including Inc, Fast Company, Newsweek, and CBS.

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Assessment

Every named publisher in the claim (Inc., Fast Company, Newsweek, and CBS) is verified by independent ad-tech reporting, trade press coverage, and partner inventory records to have utilized Revcontent for content recommendation and native advertising widgets around the May 2018 statement date. CBS Television Distribution and CBS Local partnered with Revcontent starting in 2015-2016; Newsweek's active Revcontent modules were documented across 2016-2018; and Mansueto Ventures properties (Fast Company and Inc.com) maintained widget integrations and programmatic inventory partnerships with Revcontent throughout 2016-2018.

MediaPost reported on May 31, 2016, that CBS Television Distribution selected Revcontent for content recommendation across digital properties, with additional coverage confirming CBS Local widgets.
Digiday (November 15, 2016) and MediaPost (June 8, 2017) documented active Revcontent recommendation widgets on Newsweek.com.
GlobeNewswire (March 16, 2018) and Fast Company (May 21, 2018) confirmed Fast Company's partnership and widget rollout with Revcontent.
Programmatic DSP inventory records confirmed Revcontent native widget inventory partnerships across Mansueto Ventures properties, covering both Inc.com and Fast Company.

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[1] revcontent.com [2] mediapost.com [3] digiday.com [4] entrepreneur.com [5] mediapost.com [6] forbes.com [7] joinative.com [8] forbes.com

"CBS" "Revcontent" "content recommendation" OR widget "Revcontent" "Newsweek" partner OR partnership OR widgets OR "content recommendation" "Revcontent" "Fast Company" OR "FastCompany" OR "Inc." OR "Inc.com" OR "Newsweek" OR "CBS" "Revcontent" "Fast Company" partner OR partnership OR widgets "Revcontent" "Fast Company" "partnership" OR "signed" OR "exclusive" OR "partner" "Revcontent" "Inc.com" OR "Fast Company" "content recommendation" OR widget OR partner "Revcontent" "Inc.com" "recommendation" OR "widgets" OR "partner" OR "exclusive"

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