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A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift.
Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism...

Opera Mobile Tops 100 Million Users, Still Can't Show Video

Opera is becoming a major player in the mobile browsing market it seems with over 100 million mobile users are using it monthly on their phones. That means you need to make sure your content works with it. It works with it right? Oddly, or ...

Gamification Reaches Yahoo! Ads, Video Ads Next?

I just read an interesting article by Kristina Knight at BizReport that talked about the gamification of several ad campaigns running on Yahoo!. For those not down with the lingo, gamification, is not a word I coined, but it is the utilization of gameplay mechanics ...

Get Your Online Marketing Degree Next Week At 2011 OMS

It's that time once again to head into San Diego and check out what's new and exciting in the world of online marketing with the 2011 Online Marketing Summit. The speaker list reads like a who's who in online marketing. Heck, even I recognize some ...

The Golden Age of Online Video News Consumption?

Today at the Washington Post and Beet.tv will explore the so-called golden age of online video in a two-hour panel panel discussion with Ann Derry, New York Times; Steven King, The Washington Post; Mark Larkin, CBSNews.com; Kevin Roach, The Associated Press; Anna Roberston, Yahoo! News; ...

14.6 Hours of Online Video per Viewer, 5.9B Online Video Ads in December 2010

comScore put out their Video Metrix for the final month of 2010 last week, I just didn't get around to it until now. They say, that again, 172 million U.S. users watched video online and they averaged 14.6 hours per viewer. We almost topped 6B ...

Why Don't All Video Platforms Display Video View Counts?!

When I was preparing a post about Red Letter Media's Star Wars reviews earlier in the week, I discovered something surprising. Well, it was surprising to me. Blip.tv--where Red Letter's latest video is hosted--doesn't share video view counts publicly on the website. It was important ...

Facebook and YouTube Rise To The Top Most Search Keywords for 2010

Experian Hitwise has released a year-end report detailing the most-searched keyword phrases and most-visited websites of 2010. Among the most interesting reveals is the declaration that Facebook overtook Google as the most-visited website. Of course, they wouldn't be number one if Google wasn't feeding them ...

Media Metrix November 2010 - Retail Prevails, Google Ad Network Reaches 93 Percent of US Surfers

So is it any surprise that retail and eCommerce sites showed massive uptakes last month? Nah, I didn't think so. How about Yahoo! unseating Google as top prop(erty) on the web? Here's a scary fact, the Google Ad network has more unique visitors than the ...

4.5 Hours of Video Viewed Per User at Google, 5.4 Billion Video Ads in November

ComScore dropped their monthly Video Metrix on us the other day and I've just been so busy that I couldn't get to it until now. All that research I was doing myself was taking up some time. But here we are, just a couple weeks ...

One-Third of Advertisers Buy Video Ad Space Directly Vs. Video Ad Networks

Break Media teamed up with Advertiser Perceptions Inc. for the first annual Digital Video Advertising Study. There are loads of interesting things in it that I will talk about over the next week or so and this is the first of those. I was reading ...

Goodbye Yahoo Video Uploads - Yahoo Shifts Away From User-Generated Video Content

Techcrunch is reporting that Yahoo Video is making some major changes in the wake of the company''s layoffs this week. Specifically, they seem to be doing away with user-generated content altogether. The upload utility is gone, and users are seeing a special message at the ...