When The Heck Is Yahoo Going To Do ANYTHING To YPN?!

[natekapi]

Seriously Yahoo. You haven't made any improvements to YPN in the longest time. Ad targeting got slightly better for a bit but now it seems like its off again. But aside from that, when is Yahoo going to do anything to YPN? Their just sitting on it. And have been for a long time. Do they have no business development plans? They're never going to expand into other countries? They're satisfied with the money they're making in just the US?

WTF. I could rant on forever about YPN these days. It's a bummer.

[nsusa]

Welcome to the club. I think they are working on it - to make it worse ;). Haven't seen them being so bad in a while, but this month they are completely in the toilet with everything.

Christoph

[Zibblu]

When are they going to open up to more publishers is what I'm wondering as I've not been able to get in... I'd love to have an alternative to AdSense when it comes to contextual ads... just to feel like I have a choice anyway.

[wwwSENSERELYcom]

I'm sure they receive money from Google for not opening it, it's impossible to see any other reason!

[xeastx]

I couldnt be happier! Im from U.S... I just got accepted today and submitted my app a month ago! Ha! Ha! But atleast im on the network! :)

[xeastx]

I'm sure they receive money from Google for not opening it, it's impossible to see any other reason!

That's rediculous.. seriously though.

[john269]

The thing is that if they opened it to the rest of the world, then they can make much more money than what they are currently making so by just employing some new people, they could probably have moved on a little quicker and then made back much more than what they would have spent for them extra employees. Saying this though, I can't see it being as easy as that.

[PoemofQuotes]

They aren't going to open up to the rest of the world for a while. For the past couple months they have been working on kicking people out of the program and making it much more limited and hard to get in.

Folks, it'll be a while! Ask.com and MSN will be out before YPN.

[xeastx]

Weird.. I just got accepted 20 days ago..

[ablaye]

I agree. It's been a while and they have not put their sh*t together yet.
If they want to compete with Google, they'd better hurry up.

[azn_romeo_4u]

YPN is plane retarded. They want to be the best, yet they haven't done jack for over 2 years now.

[wwwSENSERELYcom]

Maybe it's ridiculous for me to say that somewhat unofficially there's something going on between google and yahoo, but I don't see anymore reason.
The only think is maybe they have an agreement that Google will not do Google Games or Google Greeting Cards so that Yahoo can stay in good place in those areas, and in exchange they don't get too far in the PPC open to the world.

Otherwise please someone give me an explanation, because saying that it's technically hard isn't an option, when Yahoo has intelligent coders too and loads of money to pay them, they can also pay for more bandwidth or more servers. The return on investissement is certain, so why not do it, in TWO years, that's a very long time!

[fr0gman]

Does anyone remember Yahoo Auctions? That was supposed to be the next best eBay and they rolled it out at a time when eBay was making changes and booting people off their system... a ripe time for someone to step in and clean up... well Yahoo dropped the ball on that just like they have dropped the ball on YPN. If you are a YPN publisher you must really enjoy burning up traffic on irrelevant ads and if you are a YPN advertiser you must really like burning up money on a completely insecure system.

ATTENTION YPN ADVERTISERS:

Do a search of this forum and see if you can find ONE example of someone that got their publisher account terminated for "invalid clicks". I can save you the time and effort. There are none.

Does it strike you as strange that people that were terminated from Adsense for click fraud can join YPN and sail right through? Or maybe it is that people simply don't abuse the YPN program... yeah right.

If you see very little ROI from YPN I can tell you why.

[wildfire07]

Yahoo just signed up Cars.com, WEBMd, and a couple of other big sites to carry their ads.-the little guys can't get in, and when they let someone in, they terminate them in a very short time for a TOS violation of some vague sort. Last time I went to WEBMd, or Cars.com, I was not looking for irrelavant yahoo ads I was looking for specific things. No wonder this company is a finaincial disaster. I agree that this company should be split up and sold. Let Google take over their searches. Yahoo has seen its day pass. Three cheers for Adsense!!!

[Martens]

Its not so bad:cool:

[usearchme]

I would rather they took their time and did it properly, rather than rushing it and making a mess of it !

Woc

[radiolistings]

Being in beta for over two years they've taken enough time to get everything working.

[abhishekdaaga]

Atleast they can add countries one by one... and they already are having bases in many countries like INDIA but are not operating YPN here :( when are they going to do that to compete G??

[killaklown]

Atleast they can add countries one by one... and they already are having bases in many countries like INDIA but are not operating YPN here :( when are they going to do that to compete G??

If they do, india would be one of the last ones to get it.

It will be either UK or Canada if they add countries one by one.

[GeorgeB.]

Why are you still even talking about YPN? It's a failure, let it die...

[sukosaki]

I have been wondering this myself since I joined the program. How is a program that is up against Google Adsense going to get anywhere by going nowhere?

[radiolistings]

Why talk about YPN?

Well, some people who haven't been lucky enough to get into the beta want to know what it's really like [certainly plenty of the early users were crowing about how much they earned from it].

And there's also the wonderment that a company such as Yahoo can't get a contextual advertising service running - the general details of how to make one are pretty easy to figure out, so there must be some reason for them making so little progress.