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OVERTURE SERVICES TO BECOME YAHOO!
SEARCH MARKETING SOLUTIONS
Will Offer Sponsored Search and Submit Products, Providing One-Stop
Search Marketing Resource for Businesses Worldwide
Overture Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo Inc.
(NASDAQ:YHOO - News) today announced that it will be re-branded
Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions and will bring together its
sponsored search offerings and Yahoo!'s listings submit products
under the new banner. Through Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions,
advertisers of all sizes will enjoy convenient access to the
industry's most comprehensive suite of search marketing and
related products and services.
Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions' suite of offerings will
include the following products:
* Sponsored Search Listings, the flagship search advertising
product
* Content Match™, Yahoo!'s contextual advertising listings
* Local Match™, Yahoo!'s local sponsored search offering
* Site Match™ Self Serve and Site Match Xchange™,
Yahoo!'s search URL submission products
* Yahoo! Product Submit™, the Yahoo! Shopping URL
submission program
* Yahoo! Express™, the Yahoo! Directory URL submission
program
* Marketing Console™, which enables advertisers to track
campaign performance across multiple online channels
* Search Optimizer™, which allows advertisers to improve
their campaign performance and reduce the amount of time spent
managing their listings
The group will also continue to enhance and expand Yahoo's
network of sponsored search distribution sites.
In conjunction with Overture's re-branding, Yahoo! will launch a
new Advertising Solutions Center in the U.S., through which
businesses can plan and buy Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions
products. In addition, the new center will offer marketers
information about Yahoo!'s customized, creative media solutions,
providing them access to the largest set of search marketing and
brand advertising solutions on the web.
"Our mission is to be essential to marketers of all types
around the world," said Ted Meisel, Senior Vice President,
Yahoo! Inc. "Unifying all of our search marketing and
related products under one banner and one common approach
reflects our commitment to integrate and simplify online
advertising, allowing businesses of all sizes to take advantage
of the Yahoo! search marketing solutions that best fit their
marketing goals."
Overture will formally change its brand in the U.S. early next
quarter. After the U.S. re-branding is complete, Overture's
international markets will be re-branded at a later date --
except for Japan and Korea, where the Overture brand will be
maintained. Several products within the suite will be re-named
once Overture assumes the Yahoo! brand in the U.S.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most
trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Yahoo! provides online
products and services essential to consumers' lives, and offers a
full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to
connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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