10. Monetize your app with native
and video ads from Yahoo,
Flurry, and BrightRoll
advertisers
Yahoo App Publishing
Engage your audience with
personalized content
recommendations and
monetize with native ads
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12. “Yahoo has brought us many of the best
brand advertisers since our launch with
Flurry. The teams ensured the initial setup
was quick and easy. We couldn’t be
happier with the quality of ads, the
consistently high fill rate, and the breathe
of Yahoo’s advertiser relationships across
the world.”
- Richard Rabbat, VP of Advertising and Platform, Tango
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enabled Vox’s audience to
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Editor's Notes
Ken intro
It’s March, and everyone is thinking about March Madness…
(Ask question to engage the audience – ie, something about brackets / give out prizes)
[transition] Because I have Villanova to thank for the destruction of my bracket this year, I’ve already moved on to Fantasy Football.
At Yahoo, we’re seeing that mobile is growing / our mobile apps are engaging users more deeply / more than 60% of time spent with FF is on mobile. (This stat was presented at the Toyota Fantasy Football event in New York earlier March)
For me personally, I’m spending more time playing Fantasy Football on my phone each year, but it’s additive, not taking away from the time I spend on my computer or tablet.
[transition] And it’s not just me.
We all need to be thinking cross platform is because, on a typical day… nearly 40% of all smartphone owners are trying to port experiences from one device to another.
[transition] But we’re beginning to see the rise of a new device that’s changing, yet again, the way people are consuming content…
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Base: Total Markets (n=5805)
D3. The last day you used each device, did you transfer or continue activities across devices in any of the following ways?
[transition]…the phablet.
One of the things that’s accelerating the change in how users are consuming media is the fact that our phones are getting bigger and bigger.
Phablets are the fastest growing device type, they grew 148% from Jan 14 – 15 while the average growth in mobile devices was 78%.
88% of time spent on mobile devices is now in app.
Mainstream content verticals are now building apps. We’re seeing that content consumption from the sports category on mobile devices is growing at 4x the rate of consumption on other devices. Music, media & entertainment at 2.5x faster and news and magazines growing almost twice as fast.
Growing your business in mobile means joining the app revolution.
[transition] Yahoo has spent the last two years investing in building our own mobile apps and, most recently, Flurry, which has allowed us to make Yahoo both an app publisher and a platform.
WENT FROM A NASCENT USER BASE TO OVER 575M MONTHLY USERS
WENT FROM A NASCENT BUSINESS TO OVER $1.26B IN GROSS REVENUES
WE GREW OUR REVENUES OVER 23% Q/Q
IF WE WERE A STARTUP WE’D BE ONE OF THE FASTING GROWING STARTUPS IN THE VALLEY
This is how we monetize our FF app
We integrate ads in a way that enhance the user experience
And we don’t stop with FF
We use this monetization for our other products and brands
Growing your business on mobile means developing your own app and providing enhanced user ad experiences
[transition] As you just saw, the best ad experience for the user on mobile is native
There is a lot of growth opportunity in native advertising
Now we’re making these solutions available to our partners.
Today we’re going to talk to you about two tools that can help you drive mobile revenue.
Yahoo App Publishing and Yahoo Recommends
Yahoo App Publishing – With the same tools that we use to successfully monetize our own apps, developers can now monetize their apps with high-quality native, video and display ads using the combined capabilities of Yahoo Gemini, BrightRoll and Flurry. This combination offers developers the most engaging, seamless, beautiful advertising experience for users and the most effective advertising formats to monetize their apps.
Our native ads from Yahoo Gemini seamlessly integrated to the user experience. We have seen most success when integrated with a content stream. However, since our publisher (developer) partner has full control of the user experience, it can also work in other environment.
Our video ads are from high quality video advertisers like McDonalds and are as engaging as the content within the app.
BrightRoll adds to the strong quality and advertiser demand, working with 87 of the Ad Age Top 100 advertisers.
(You heard Claire talk about BrightRoll and all the exciting things we’re doing in video earlier today).
This an example of the success we’ve seen with one of our partners, Tango.
Social and messaging apps like Tango are moving into the content space. This is where they have the opportunity to monetize. Tango used Yahoo App Publishing to implement native ad units into their content stream.
What do mobile app developers care about? Fill rate, eCPM, control of user experience.
Quote here speaks to consistently high fill rate and quality of ads from big branded advertisers.
Other examples of partner publishers:
-Pinger is a social messaging app
-Learnst is an educational app (horizontal stream)
A different type of native ad unit, works well with cross-device consumption: Yahoo recommends – module that adapts to your site layout to give personalized content recommendations to readers. The platform generates engagement and monetization opportunities using Yahoo native ads.
Flexible layout to fit every site
High-quality, transparent ads that enhance content consumption without interruption
This screenshot shows an example from our partner, Vox Media. With Vox, we were able to add incremental revenue while helping them drive engagement and recirculation.
The Yahoo Recommends modules generated 2.5 times in clicks and 40% lift in CTR compared to previous solution
Through these publisher tools, Yahoo App Publishing and Yahoo Recommends, you can drive mobile monetization and create a better user experience through native, video and content recommendations across devices.