“Yahoo is counting on rival Google to help accelerate its revenue growth.
As part of a nonexclusive arrangement announced Wednesday, Yahoo’s website will begin drawing upon Google’s massive online advertising network to show marketing messages related to the content that’s being perused.
Google already distributes similar ads to thousands of websites, a service that has helped establish it as the Internet’s most prosperous company.
Yahoo has been struggling to attract more advertisers in recent years, even though more marketing budgets have been shifting to the Internet. The company’s revenue had fallen in three consecutive years before registering a small gain last year. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a longtime Google executive before being lured away nearly seven months ago, has pledged to produce more impressive growth in future years.
Google retains part of the revenue generated from the ads shown on its partners’ sites. The revenue split with Yahoo wasn’t specifically disclosed, but Google has previously said that website owners that display the kind of ads covered in this agreement usually get to keep 68 percent of the revenue.
Last year, Google’s ad sales on its partners’ sites totaled $12.5 billion. That amount includes ads shown next to the search results on other websites, a service it isn’t providing to Yahoo….”
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