Founded in 2007, New York-based Taboola is a marketing and revenue driver service for websites and apps seeking to monetize their content. The company caters to over 13,000 publishers that reach over 500 million users per day. Connexity, meanwhile, runs a platform that lets publishers integrate retail product offers on their websites. It also offers a bevy of other monetization tools, like affiliate links, in-stream advertising and shopping search ads. The company was owned by Symphony Technology Partners since 2011. Taboola said that by coupling its technology with Connexity’s retail index, which includes more than 750 million product offers, it will be able to launch a new type of recommendation geared toward advertisers and publishers that connects editorial content to product recommendations. Taboola said Connexity generated $151 million of revenue, $63 million of ex-TAC gross profit and $28 million of adjusted EBITDA in 2019. Last year those figures increased to $172 million of revenue, $78 million of ex-TAC gross profit and $38 million of adjusted EBITDA. Bill Glass, Connexity CEO, and the Connexity management team will lead a newly formed business unit at Taboola.
