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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Yahoo Ads

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AYahoo Ads supports mobile, native and search engine marketing and advertising, and is a solution for placing ads where visitors are. The marketplace offers search and native advertising in one advertising platform.

    $25

    per month

    Yandex Direct

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AYandex Advertising services (Yandex.Direct) include the ability to display ads on Yandex searches and across the Yandex Advertising Network. Services include native advertising for mobile, video advertising, as well as retargeting.N/A
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    Yahoo AdsYandex Direct
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    Yahoo Gemini!
    $25.00
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    Yahoo AdsYandex Direct
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Considered Both Products
    Yahoo!
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    Yandex
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    86%
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    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score5.5 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
    Score5.5 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    AdSense
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (17 ratings)
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    Usability
    5.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    6.5
    (6 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Yahoo AdsYandex Direct
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Yahoo!
    Good for instances where search campaigns are driving poor overall traffic. Campaigns for awareness work well, and you have pretty good control of how your ads look without having to do too much work. We've used this successfully for law, financial services, and political campaigns effectively. With Twitter banning political ads, and Facebook becoming increasingly strict on their approval guidelines, this may turn into the best alternative. Would not necessarily recommend for ecommerce campaigns, or lead based campaign where keeping cost per conversion down is a primary objective.
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    Yandex
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    Pros
    Yahoo!
    • Offers extensive solutions to reach a high volume of users and create new reach outside of major networks like Google and Bing.
    • Provides unique ways to differentiate advertisers in top positions on search results pages.
    • Creates unique tactics to utilize on display networks (carousel and video takeovers).
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    Cons
    Yahoo!
    • No traffic -- despite a high ROI, the lack of overall spend led to us eventually remove support for the channel from our services.
    • Nothing to differentiate it from other paid platforms -- Gemini didn't particularly offer anything new or novel that made it worth using over Bing and Google.
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    Usability
    Yahoo!
    One of my main pain points with yahoo gemini is that the product is very difficult to use and the UI seems like they took a skeleton of a similar product and made it bare bones functional for the purpose of generating ad spend. It is a huge barrier for new customers and I feel one of the main reasons they have new customers at all is all the free trial dollars they offer.
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    Support Rating
    Yahoo!
    They were always super helpful during training and demoing and would answer any questions we had. We didn't have a direct account manager, which would have been nice, but I just don't think their size accommodates for that type of set up. They are very knowledgeable and help guide you through a set up for each particular client.
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    Yandex
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    Alternatives Considered
    Yahoo!
    Yahoo Gemini! does stack up well against its competitors in the smaller spending realms. We've never been able to justify the ROI when we try to scale it up to even 10% - 15% of our spend. No, we've found that it's much better as a tangential win than a mainstream channel.
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    Yandex
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    Return on Investment
    Yahoo!
    • It has created a more comprehensive understanding of the audience to whom a client is marketing.
    • It allows clients to target and reach audience members on all major search platforms.
    • It provides data and reporting to understand and analyze campaign success and optimize campaigns towards client goals.
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    Yandex
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