ActiveOutbrain

Currently running — worth a closer look.

Running 8/30 days across 1 GEO.

Running in a single market (Germany) — a focused test, not a broad rollout yet.

Seen 8/30 days
1 GEO
Redirect chain checked
LP host: merkur.de

Reverse-engineered from the live ad — longevity, GEOs, and the affiliate funnel behind it. Verified by following the redirect chain on Jun 14. Free, no login.

Funnel, reverse-engineered

The campaign behind this creative

← the actual path the money takes.

Creative
Merkur
Landing page
merkur.de
where it lands
Product / Offer: not detected
Tracker: not detected
Affiliate network: not detected

How we know: the tracker and affiliate network come from the live redirect chain we followed and fingerprinted hop by hop. Greyed nodes weren’t detected.

Pushing hard now

LP capture pending

running 8d · last seen 3d ago · 1 market

Heavy push pressure in the last few days — hot right now. Worth a close look while it's live.

Gravity

82/100

push pressure now · 30d index

Strength

54/100

overall scale · 30d index

Run

last seen 3d ago

Markets

countries seen

Landing page

merkur.de

final host

Screenshot

—

not captured yet

Operator

—

unidentified

Network

Outbrain

traffic source

via mediabuyer

Visit page

First seen: Jun 5
Last seen: Jun 14
Running for: 8 days

Seltene Worte: Alexander Zverev packt über Beziehung zu Sophia Thomalla aus

Alexander Zverev Finally Opens Up About His Relationship with Sophia Thomalla

Merkur@merkur

ScalingOutbrainTop 25% longevity

merkur.de/boulevard/thomalla-aus-selten…

Longevity8d / 60d

Top 25% longevity in network

Days alive is a profitability proxy — advertisers don’t pay to run losers.

Seen in

🇩🇪Germany

Geo reach

Single-geo testa single market

Predominantly Tier 1, concentrated in Europe — Germany.

What the data shows

Merkur's Outbrain creative has been running for 8 days across 1 country and first seen on June 5, 2026 and last seen on June 14, 2026. It has been observed in Germany. The ad lands on merkur.de. On our 30-day observation series the creative has run in intermittent bursts over the last 30 days. Merkur is running 8 other creatives we have indexed, linked below for side-by-side comparison.

Landing-page intelligence

Landing page intelligence

Where this ad lands

The lander is the product — screenshot, redirect chain, offer, tech stack, and on-page text in one place.

Landing page not captured yet

Our crawler renders each advertiser’s funnel on a rolling schedule. Recently observed ads are queued first — check back to see the full-page screenshot.

Host

merkur.de

Path

/boulevard/thomalla-aus-seltene-worte-alexander-zverev-packt-ueber-beziehung-zu-sophia-zr-94262710.html

Full URL

http://www.merkur.de/boulevard/thomalla-aus-seltene-worte-alexander-zverev-packt-ueber-beziehung-zu-sophia-zr-94262710.html?utm_source=%7B%7Bpublisher_id%7D%7D&utm_medium=obbow&utm_campaign=0010d51fca4d2a074ca8914b4bac15ac28&utm_adtitle=Seltene+Worte%3A+Alexander+Zverev+packt+%C3%BCber+Beziehung+zu+Sophia+Thomalla+aus&trafficsource=obbow

Redirect chain

Chain not captured yet.

Final host: merkur.de. Hop-by-hop capture runs as a separate pipeline; ads observed in recent ingests get crawled first.

Tracking parameters

utm_source: {{publisher_id}}
utm_medium: obbow
utm_campaign: 0010d51fca4d2a074ca8914b4bac15ac28
utm_adtitle: Seltene+Worte:+Alexander+Zverev+packt+über+Beziehung+zu+Sophia+Thomalla+aus
trafficsource: obbow
obOrigUrl: true

+ 1 known tracker hidden (cloaker IDs scrubbed at ingest).

Tracking setup · Outbrain

Outbrain emits ob_click_id (your unique click), ob_source (publisher), ob_section (placement), and ob_position. Forward ob_click_id to your tracker as the postback key. ob_source and ob_section are the two highest-signal sub-IDs for blacklisting.

?ob_click_id={ob_click_id}&ob_source={ob_source}&ob_section={ob_section}&ob_position={ob_position}

Default Outbrain setup template: ?ob_click_id={ob_click_id}&ob_source={ob_source}&ob_section={ob_section}&ob_position={ob_position}

Tech stack

No third-party monetization stack detected — this appears to be a direct landing page.

Landing page hubs

merkur.de

Landing page text

On-page text not extracted yet.

Observed: Jun 5, 2026Last seen: Jun 14, 2026Days running: 8

Observed daily (last 30 days)

May 18 → Jun 15·peaks Jun 7

30-day run pattern

Pulsed

Intermittent runs with quiet stretches — likely paused for budget cycles or rotation against fresher creatives.

Coverage: 28% of 30d
Peak surge: 1.5× vs median
Last 7d: 8
WoW: +14%

Peak day: Jun 7

Window: May 18 → Jun 15

Sibling creatives from this campaign

Other creatives in Other on Outbrain

The rest of the set they’re running — see what else this angle is paired with.

Tested headline variants8

Tested headline variants

Merkur's own A/B test — which headline they kept

The advertiser’s own A/B result, handed over: ranked by days running, the survivor on top. Variants they stopped running are struck through — they tested and killed those angles.

#1Nach Laura Dahlmeiers Tod: Tragische neue Details enthülltWinning angle60d9 content tokens
#2Es gibt Indizien: Ist Lennart Karl vom FC Bayern mit einer Influencerin zusammen?59d13 content tokens
#3Tragisch: So verstarb „Traumschiff“-Legende Heide Keller59d6 content tokens
#4„Gefällt mir nicht nur optisch“: Schweinsteiger reagiert kurios auf Sedlaczek-Frage42d12 content tokens

Winning angle: the headline they kept alive longest — it beat the other variants they tested. Model this one; treat the rest as discarded experiments.

Currently running — worth a closer look.

Pushing hard now

Seltene Worte: Alexander Zverev packt über Beziehung zu Sophia Thomalla aus

More from Merkur

Currently running — worth a closer look.

Pushing hard now

Seltene Worte: Alexander Zverev packt über Beziehung zu Sophia Thomalla aus

More from Merkur