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Quora

Quora

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Quora is a knowledge-sharing platform where users ask questions, share insights, and explore diverse perspectives, attracting over 400 million monthly unique visitors.

Last updated Oct 5, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team

Founded
2009
HQ
Mountain View, California, United States
Connections
15

AI-drafted from public sources8 sources cited

At a glance

Employees
501-1000
Funding
$226M
Revenue
$20M-$100M
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About

Niche but growing self-serve advertising platform leveraging a high-intent Q&A audience, positioned between social media and search advertising

Quora is a knowledge-sharing platform where users ask questions, share insights, and explore diverse perspectives, attracting over 400 million monthly unique visitors. Built on intent, the platform draws users who arrive with specific questions and actively seek solutions, making it a high-value environment for advertisers looking to reach customers at critical stages of the buying journey. Quora offers a suite of ad formats designed to integrate natively into the user experience, with options suited to awareness, lead generation, and content promotion goals. Through a strategic partnership with Bombora, Quora now provides B2B advertisers with access to more than 450 audience segments — including Account-Based Marketing capabilities — enabling precise targeting of professionals by job function, seniority, company size, and industry vertical. Because the platform is less saturated than major competitors, advertisers often achieve more efficient results, with cost-per-click reported to be as much as 65% lower than comparable Google search campaigns and 40–50% lower than Meta. Source 1: adweek.com — Quora Partners With Bombora to Provide B2B Audiences ... Source 2: improvado.io — Quora Ads: The Ultimate 2026 Guide for High-Intent ...

Business model

Marketplace

Target market

SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise

What they offer

  • Quora Ads

    Self-serve advertising platform allowing brands to target users by topic, keyword, question, interest, and audience segments with image, text, and promoted answer formats

  • Promoted Answers

    Native ad format that promotes a brand's answer to relevant questions, blending organically into the Q&A feed

  • Quora Pixel

    Conversion tracking pixel enabling advertisers to measure on-site actions and build retargeting audiences

  • Quora+

    Subscription product offering readers access to exclusive paywalled content from top contributors

  • Spaces

    Community feature allowing users to create and follow topic-based groups, expanding content discovery and engagement

  • Audience Targeting

    Targeting capabilities including topic targeting, keyword targeting, question retargeting, lookalike audiences, and behavioral segments

Key features

Topic and keyword-based ad targetingQuestion-level retargetingPromoted Answers native ad formatLookalike audience creationConversion pixel and event trackingSelf-serve campaign management dashboardCPC and CPM bidding optionsLead generation ad formatsBroad and specific interest targetingMulti-format creative support (image, text, carousel)

Use cases

B2B lead generation targeting professionals researching business solutionsSaaS product awareness among users researching software categoriesConsidered-purchase brand awareness for high-ticket consumer productsRetargeting users who have engaged with relevant questionsContent amplification by promoting branded answers to relevant queriesDriving traffic to landing pages from research-phase audiences

Customer segments

B2B SaaS companiesE-commerce brandsFinancial services advertisersEducation and EdTech companiesHealthcare and wellness brandsTechnology companiesSMB advertisers seeking affordable CPCsEnterprise brand advertisers

Tech & specs

Technology stack

PythonJavaScriptReactMySQLMemcachedAmazon Web ServicesKafkaHadoopMachine learning for ad ranking and targeting

Security & compliance

GDPRCCPAPrivacy Policy compliant data handling

Deployment

Cloud

API

Limited

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