Yahoo’s Pitch To Small Businesses: Self-Serve Display Ads
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There’s been some surprising good news about display-ad spending this past month—and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is betting that more is on the way. AdAge’s Michael Learmonth has the details about Yahoo’s latest bid to turn its display business around. On Monday, the company will release My Display Ads, a self-serve ad system that it will use to court small and mid-size businesses. The introduction of this product suggests that Yahoo feels ready to go head-to-head with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and AOL (NYSE: TWX), as well as social networks Facebook and MySpace, which have had been aiming self-serve ads at smaller advertisers for several months. More after the jump
Yahoo’s latest display gambit comes as more advertisers, local and national, have increased their search-ad spend. But the pull of search appears to be waning among local busineses, according to a recent report by local ad analyst Borrell Associates. Even though other sites (like Yelp) have had their hooks in small marketers, there appears to be room for Yahoo to capture some of that business, which AdAge’s Learmonth says is a $13.6 billion market. Yahoo is offering the My Display Ads to marketers on both the CPM format or as a cost-per-click auction through the companies’ various other platforms, including its Right Media ad exchange system.
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