Yahoo Native

Overview
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Yahoo Native
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Yahoo Native (formerly Yahoo Gemini) is Yahoo's offering for mobile, native and search engine marketing and advertising (formerly Yahoo! Advertising and Yahoo! Search Marketing), for placing ads where visitors are, with an emphasis on mobile. The marketplace offers search and native advertising in one advertising platform, offering brand-safe premium content, and advanced technologies to deliver engaging advertising campaigns.
$25
per month
Pricing
Yahoo Native
Editions & Modules
Yahoo Gemini!
$25.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Yahoo Native
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Yahoo Native
Considered Both Products
Yahoo Native
Chose Yahoo Native
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.
Chose Yahoo Native
Yahoo has a broader reach than LinkedIn in terms of category of intents. Yahoo also supercedes LinkedIn in terms of impression volume. LinkedIn is also a more expensive acquisition overall.
Chose Yahoo Native
Google is definitely the mammoth in this space, but it is nice to be able to be on multiple different search engines. People are using all different kinds of SEs to get their information.
It is also nice to push other campaigns straight into Yahoo! and not have as much legwork …
Chose Yahoo Native
Gemini had cheaper CPCS but would not convert as well as Bing or Google. It would be consistent but not as good.
Chose Yahoo Native
Yahoo is not as used as Google, but it is still a well-known search engine. It is still valuable to use Yahoo! Advertising.
Chose Yahoo Native
Yahoo Gemini is a more robust version of Outbrain and Taboola. It does offer mobile search, which they do not, and you have more control over your targeting, ad formats, and platform preference. Difficulty of campaign setup is pretty minimal on any Native platform, but Gemini …
Chose Yahoo Native
In terms of ROI, Bing ~ Gemini > Google. However, Google's massive amounts of traffic nullify ROI returns. In terms of traffic, Google > Bing > Gemini.
Chose Yahoo Native
I use all four of these platforms if they make sense for the advertising campaign which I am running. Yahoo Gemini has the advantage of having a very low cost per click and cost per impression, so it's especially ideal for an awareness campaign compared to Google, Bing, and …
Chose Yahoo Native
Gemini is comparable in objective and use to the other SEM platforms. Geminis audience is more limited and therefore should be used to complement other efforts on other platforms. We use Gemini to create a multi platform SEM campaign, to reach the largest possible audience and …
Chose Yahoo Native
Undoubtedly AdWords ranks higher overall. Yahoo Gemini is a distant second. Bing has been a disappointment but I have not given up on it.
Chose Yahoo Native
Both Taboola and Yahoo Gemini were used in the organization, but the general client relationship with Taboola was much stronger in the UK and allowed for more constant investment rather than being seen as an 'experimental channel' as Yahoo Gemini was.
Chose Yahoo Native
Yahoo! Advertising typically offers the third largest pool of audience for search, but offers a much stronger reach of audience in their display networks with a stronger product in Native. We don’t solely just use one product, but nearly 8/10 of recommendations made include …
Chose Yahoo Native
Overall, Yahoo! Advertising is a much lower traffic option, but also a lower cost option. If you are looking to drive big numbers & results, this platform is behind Google AdWords and Facebook Ads by a big gap.
Chose Yahoo Native
Yahoo Gemini is very similar to how the Bing Ads platform operates and functions, but I feel like the Yahoo Gemini platform is much more aesthetically pleasing and a little bit easier to manage. The colors and visual appearance of the dashboard seems to be more inviting than …
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User Ratings
Yahoo Native
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
(16 ratings)
Usability
5.4
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
6.5
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Yahoo Native
Likelihood to Recommend
Yahoo (Verizon Media)
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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Pros
Yahoo (Verizon Media)
  • 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 (Verizon Media)
  • 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 (Verizon Media)
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 (Verizon Media)
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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Yahoo (Verizon Media)
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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Return on Investment
Yahoo (Verizon Media)
  • 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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