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June 23, 2013 12:30 am GMT

Yahoo Sees 'Tweener' Ads as the Future

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For many consumers, Yahoo is a brand that's strongly associated with the first dot-com era in the 1990s, and has managed to remain in the first tier of Internet media companies only through consumer inertia.

Since Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo last July, however, the company has worked hard to change that perception. The most notable change is the $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition, which gives Yahoo and its advertisers access to a younger, hipper demographic. But that's not the only difference

In April, Yahoo rolled out its own brand of native advertising, Yahoo Stream Ads. Henrique De Castro, Yahoo's COO, calls these and other native advertising units "tweeners," meaning they sit somewhere between advertising and editorial content. For De Castro, the former vice-president of Google's worldwide Partner Business Solutions group, such ads represent a future in which Yahoo's advertisers can better exploit the company's targeting and scale

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