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Yahoo Native
Formerly Yahoo Gemini! / Yahoo! Advertising

Overview

What is Yahoo Native?

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…

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Yahoo Gemini is a versatile platform that has been widely used by various organizations and marketing teams for a range of purposes. One …
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Yahoo Gemini!

$25.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Yahoo Native?

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.

Yahoo Native Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 6.5.

The most common users of Yahoo Native are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(38)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Yahoo Gemini is a versatile platform that has been widely used by various organizations and marketing teams for a range of purposes. One of its main use cases is running campaigns aimed at general awareness and converting traffic to a limited degree. Users have found it to be particularly effective for campaigns with low search volume or unique informational queries that are hard to weed out, making it a valuable tool for reaching niche audiences.

Another common use case for Yahoo Gemini is as an additional channel for paid search efforts. Similar to platforms like Quora and Reddit, users have integrated Yahoo Gemini into their digital marketing strategies to create and manage advertising campaigns for different clients. This allows them to drive potential customers to their websites or landing pages, expanding the reach of their paid search initiatives.

Furthermore, Yahoo Gemini has proven to be an effective lead generation tool, complementing success on other platforms such as Google AdWords. By leveraging the platform's capabilities, organizations have been able to promote artists' tour dates and upcoming events, ensuring that fans receive timely reminders through Yahoo. Additionally, Yahoo Gemini has been utilized for advertising events like esports tournaments, enabling marketers to target specific demographics effectively.

Moreover, many users have adopted Yahoo Gemini as a means to drive leads and traffic to websites, leveraging their extensive advertising experience spanning over eight years. The platform offers the advantage of purchasing native/brand awareness media at a decent and more cost-effective rate. It also provides opportunities for greater exposure when resold to clients and managed by the Ad Operations department.

Yahoo Gemini has found applications in several industries beyond entertainment. For instance, it plays a significant role in promoting brand awareness and performance marketing in sectors like mortgages and life insurance. By using the platform's features strategically, organizations can easily market their products and services across search engines and websites.

Lastly, Yahoo Gemini enables users to reach a unique target audience through native advertising. By introducing them to services and brands before targeting them with paid search advertising, businesses can effectively engage potential customers and drive conversions.

In summary, Yahoo Gemini offers a variety of use cases, from running campaigns for general awareness to targeting niche audiences with unique queries. It serves as an additional channel for paid search efforts and complements success on other platforms, allowing users to drive leads and traffic to websites. The ability to purchase native/brand awareness media at a more cost-effective rate and reach specific target audiences makes Yahoo Gemini a valuable tool for marketers across industries.

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October 10, 2022

Yahoo Gemini Review

Colin Tiller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When you need to advertise on Yahoo to expand reach, the software works great. API is really good, but lacks depth. The software isnt very team friendly or user friendly for multiple team members. We ran into difficulties with that in the past.
September 26, 2020

Scalable to an Extent

Nathan Richardson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As I've alluded to before, Yahoo Gemini! is particularly well-suited for that extra bit of marketing spend and those last few needed leads and MQLs to get you over the hump. We definitely find that the ROI is well worth it, but it's also not the type of channel that we're gonna drop half of our budget on. The scalability is limited to an extent.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It definitely doesn't belong with a paid search team. The native & search buys should be the responsibility of a display team. It frequently gets grouped into an SEM buy because of Yahoo's association with Bing. But that time is over now! All that said, it is very good for simple native buys and Yahoo properties have a ton of loyal content consumers that have great retention.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
It clearly doesn't have as great of a reach as Google does, so it is sometimes hard to get clients on board with wanting to advertise there, but it is a good way to get all sorts of different demographics and a large reach if you're on all the different platforms available.
They don't really have a unique audience.
Vincent Misiewicz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Yahoo Gemini is appropriate for an awareness campaign that wants to reach a large number of users in a short time. Gemini's native advertising is also particularly useful if your advertising campaign has high quality and eye-catching visuals - the new carousel ad format is particularly useful for promoting good visuals that fit within an advertising campaign.
Leah Jakaitis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gemini is well suited to round out any PPC search campaign. It lags in audience size (compares to Google and Bing), but has respectable targeting abilities. Campaign design and launch are similar to other platforms and rely primarily on specific and broad matching terms.
May 22, 2018

Yahoo Gemini

Toni Reifsteck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using Gemini alone means you miss out on users not on Yahoo or its partner networks and that's a lot of folks. I mean, Google AdWords is #1 for a reason. It is best to use Gemini with AdWords. The best part is you are able to export your AdWords campaigns directly into Gemini. Super nifty!
However, if you have a small budget and AdWords is cost prohibitive, then by all means use Gemini - you can run a moderate two-week campaign for $500 in Gemini, while that will get you a day and a half in AdWords.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Any company which has performance marketing or a brand awareness budget that can be dedicated out to Search/Native should definitely try Yahoo Gemini although results can be mixed depending on your region/market. If you get past stumbling blocks around reach and admin set-up then the results can be very good.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Yahoo Gemini is the perfect advertising engine for both small businesses and larger businesses looking to start digitally advertising and marketing online to their specific target audiences. It is an easy-to-use platform and the dashboard is fairly simple to get used to, which makes managing your accounts and campaigns that much easier.
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