Here Is Yahoo's Native Ad Network

Yahoo is bringing its native ads to other publishers' sites.Last year Yahoo adopted the low-hanging-fruit version of native advertising, a form of ad that aims to mirror surrounding editorial content. Unlike BuzzFeed's sponsored listicles or The New York Times' brand-penned posts, Yahoo's native "Stream Ads" more closely resemble Facebook's Sponsored Stories in that they refashion display ads as content links within its sites' content streams. Now Yahoo is extending these ads outside of its own properties through a content recommendation system that helps publishers promote their own stories.Publishers place Yahoo's content recommendation box on their sites' article pages to highlight their other stories, but the boxes also include Yahoo's stream ads, which are featured as sponsored links. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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