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Yahoo’s “Primetime in No Time” surpasses 100 million streams

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Yahoo! TV’s “Primetime in No Time” has reached a major milestone for an original online program, surpassing 100 million streams to date. The milestone comes just eight months since its March 2008 launch, and makes “Primetime in No Time” one of the most successful original programs in the history of the Internet.

Created to provide Yahoo! users with a daily comedic, rapid-fire recap of primetime TV’s most water cooler-worthy moments, “Primetime in No Time” reaches TV fans exclusively on Yahoo! TV. It is hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero and brought to users by Verizon.

By covering the biggest TV moments in a timely and irreverent way, “Primetime in No Time” maintains one of the largest audiences of any show on the Web. It now draws an average of four million streams per week on Yahoo! TV.

Originally posted on November 12, 2008 @ 4:46 pm

Google terminates service agreement with Yahoo!

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Yahoo! Inc. announced that Google has terminated the advertising services agreement the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than take it to court. The Department of Justice said that it would seek to block the deal, despite Yahoo!’s proposed revisions to address the DOJ’s concerns.

Originally posted on November 5, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

Yahoo! releases new online calendar

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Yahoo! Inc. announced the release of an all-new Yahoo! Calendar. The new calendar offers an intuitive, online social calendaring experience that enables people to be more productive.

Based on open standards, the new Yahoo! Calendar beta makes it easy for users to discover, share and keep track of events and appointments. Other new easy-to-use features allow consumers to keep track of activities through color-coding, drag and drop appointments for easy scheduling, and “zoom-in and -out” from a monthly “wall calendar” view to a single event – all from within a Yahoo! Mail account. In addition, images from the Flickr photo community can be included to create a visual, unique-looking online calendar with interesting photos.

The new Yahoo! Calendar is built on the Zimbra platform using the iCalendar (iCal) and CalDAV3 standards. The new calendar is interoperable with other online calendar services including those from Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, AOL and Google, so users can share their calendar data with friends who use other online calendaring services and subscribe to any iCal-based public calendar.

Originally posted on October 8, 2008 @ 10:08 am

Yahoo! forms council for evolution of digital media and online advertising

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Yahoo! announced the formation of a Digital Advisory Council that will consist of industry executives from its agency and advertiser partners. The Council will work collaboratively to explore the continued evolution of digital media and online advertising.

The Council will serve as a vehicle for soliciting feedback and will supplement Yahoo!’s daily conversations with advertisers. Active discussion with key customers is an important pillar in making Yahoo! a partner of choice, particularly during a time when competition for ad dollars is as robust as ever. Yahoo!’s Digital Advisory Council will first meet in the fourth quarter of this year.

Originally posted on September 24, 2008 @ 10:28 am

Yahoo! and Rhapsody deliver song playback in search

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Yahoo! and Rhapsody are putting the play buttons right in the search box and making the web playable. Users who search for an artist with available content on Yahoo! will be able to click play right in the Yahoo! shortcut at the top of the search results and instantly stream full-length songs by that artist through the FoxyTunes Player, which is powered by Rhapsody.

“The launch of full-song playback in Yahoo! Search brings us closer to realizing Yahoo! Music’s vision of making the web playable and removing the barriers that prevent people from clicking play and hearing music,” said Michael Spiegelman, head of Yahoo! Music. “The powerful combination of Rhapsody and Yahoo!’s FoxyTunes Player will greatly enhance the discovery and consumption of music on the Web by giving online music fans what they want – an easy way to hear music.”

Originally posted on September 18, 2008 @ 2:25 pm