If you will find the post here about the interview, you will see that they may not go global, and may only stay with U.S. memberships. But if they do, it could be as long as next year.
I saw something at webmasterworld about global YPN... In an interview I guess the YPN people said not to expect global any time soon due to lack of international advertisers.
Quote" YPN coming out of Beta and YPN going global are COMPLETELY SEPARATE. YPN will not necessarily go global when it comes out of Beta. It could come out of BETA and remain exactly as it is....or it may be available to global publishers whilst in Beta. They do NOT go hand-in-hand like so many of us believe and speculate. The reason YPN isn't open to international publishers is NOT just because they want the Beta program to be exclusive to US publishers. It's because of how their sponsored search works. As (hopefully) everyone knows, the ads that you see on your site are pulled from the sponsored search results that you see when you go to yahoo.com and do a search. Well, the way it's structured for the advertisers is different from Google. Google has a bunch of advertisers who just advertise to the world while Yahoo has a lot of them that are targeted to a specific country. So, they can't go sending European traffic to a U.S. advertiser who has specified that they want ONLY U.S. traffic. According to the guy I spoke with, YPN doesn't really know how to handle this currently. They're of course working on it and trying to figure it out, but as of now, they have no solution. My two cents judging from the phone call: it could be a while before YPN is available to international publishers. "unQuote
I think they are just trying to serve a niche market right now and not trying to out do Google which is probably a good thing right at the moment.
Maybe it's a good thing but what publishers' location has to do with location of their sites' visitors? For example I live in Europe but most of my sites' visitors are US based and my websites are targeted primarily to US visitors.
I agree with you on this. I have seen many non-U.S. based sites that could easily qualify, but they do not see it that way unfortunately.
One thing is undeniable for me anyways, YPN pays WELL. I wonder if this is the strategy to compete with adsense - to give us a bigger piece of the pie. Let the bidding wars begin!