Marissa Maguire
May 29, 2024

AdExchanger Reports: Perion Shutters Content IQ, Its Made-For-Advertising Division

Marketing
AdExchanger Reports: Perion Shutters Content IQ, Its Made-For-Advertising Division

Allison Schiff of AdExchanger recently reported Sincera's findings of Content IQ arbitraging and reselling clickbait subdomains on behalf of brand-name publishers. As of May 12, Perion quietly shut down Content IQ's operation.

On May 12, less than two days after Sincera published its research, Perion – the public ad tech company that owns Content IQ – quietly and briskly shut down Content IQ’s entire MFA network. That same day, Content IQ’s writers lost their jobs without warning.

Read the full story here.

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Marketing

AdExchanger Reports: Perion Shutters Content IQ, Its Made-For-Advertising Division

Marissa Maguire
AdExchanger Reports: Perion Shutters Content IQ, Its Made-For-Advertising Division

Allison Schiff of AdExchanger recently reported Sincera's findings of Content IQ arbitraging and reselling clickbait subdomains on behalf of brand-name publishers. As of May 12, Perion quietly shut down Content IQ's operation.

On May 12, less than two days after Sincera published its research, Perion – the public ad tech company that owns Content IQ – quietly and briskly shut down Content IQ’s entire MFA network. That same day, Content IQ’s writers lost their jobs without warning.

Read the full story here.