“We believe the history of Yahoo, going back to the beginning, is helping the open web survive and thrive.” Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone took the stage at HumanX in Amsterdam this week to talk about the future of internet search, including the importance of linking back to sources within Yahoo Scout, and why sending traffic back to publishers is core to the social contract of the internet. Watch the full discussion with Massimo Marioni: https://lnkd.in/gSXp23iP
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Today we’re introducing a new monthly newsletter: ⚒️ Built by Yahoo 🧰 In it, you’ll find fresh insights on the future of product development, backed by real stories of what we’re building and how teams are rethinking the way they build. Up first: When AI can write the code, how does it change the roles of engineers and designers? Find out what we’re learning in our first edition and subscribe👇
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The market moves fast and so do we. Yahoo Finance has a new programming lineup, and it starts today. 📈 🎥 Four new daily live shows hosted by expert journalists Brian Sozzi, Deirdre Bosa (coming in October), Julie Hyman, Jake Conley, and Pras Subramanian. 🎙️ Our lineup also includes new, original programming featuring creators, entrepreneurs, and Yahoo Finance talent with distinct perspectives and deep expertise in their fields, including Ian Schwartzman, Scott Melker, Ryan Patel, Ejaaz Ahamadeen, Brooke DiPalma, and Elizabeth Gore. Get more details on the lineup and start watching: https://lnkd.in/gMK5u9jB
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Yahoo made a keyboard covered in grass. Weirdly, I think it contains a pretty important lesson for brands. I’ve been digging into Yahoo’s brand strategy and how it’s making a 30-year-old internet brand culturally relevant again for our Behind the Brands newsletter... now one of the #40 fastest-growing Substacks in the world, with over 15,000 readers. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eiVJKhPJ Here’s a sneak peek... For people of my generation, Yahoo sits somewhere in the brain alongside MSN Messenger, dial-up internet and asking Jeeves things. But recently something strange has been happening. Cardi B. Weird memes. A grass-covered keyboard. A ring designed to stop you scrolling. Suddenly a 31-year-old technology company seems to be having more fun than brands founded three years ago. I spoke to Kemma Kefalas, Senior Director of Yahoo Creative Lab, to understand what the hell is going on. And what I found is a really interesting lesson in how heritage brands can use their past to build relevance rather than running away from it. Here are three things that jumped out... 🕰️ They’re not running away from their past. Yahoo calls its approach “modern vintage”. Rather than binning 30 years of history, they’re mining it. Even the famous Yahoo yodel is back. Heritage brands often spend millions removing the very distinctive brand assets that made them recognisable in the first place. 🌱 They made a keyboard covered in grass. Which sounds ridiculous. But Yahoo asks a brutally simple question of its content: “Will they care? Will they share?” If the team wouldn’t voluntarily send something to a friend, they’ll kill it. Compare that with how much brand content nobody involved would willingly watch, yet somehow still gets £500k of media put behind it. 🧠 They’re protecting their weirdness. We’ve become obsessed with researching, testing and optimising everything. Yahoo is putting more faith in experienced people having what Kemma brilliantly calls “excellent guts in the room.” Data can help interesting creative work travel further. But it can also slowly sand away everything that made the work interesting. Which raises a bigger question: Have brands become so obsessed with optimisation that we’ve optimised the interesting bits out of marketing? Because a keyboard covered in grass has a fighting chance of getting talked about. Another generic social post probably doesn’t. Read the full piece on Yahoo’s brand strategy, distinctive assets and return to cultural relevance in Behind the Brands above.
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Spoiler alert: if you have over 20,000 unread emails in your inbox, you *might* be an “Overwhelmed Optimist.” 😅 We created an inbox persona quiz based on four distinct email management personality types. Whether you’re sitting pretty at inbox zero or dizzy from a six-digit unread count, there’s a new Yahoo Mail feature to do the heavy lifting you need. Swipe through for a sneak peek into your inbox persona type, then go take our full quiz here to learn for sure: https://lnkd.in/g42AfMGK
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There are two types of people in the world: Inbox Zero people, and Hundreds-of-Thousands-of-Unread-Emails people. Well, perhaps there are more - a recent Yahoo study revealed FOUR distinct inbox personas. And to celebrate new organization features in Yahoo Mail, we created an inbox persona quiz to help you discover which bucket you fall into. 👀 Whatever your result, these new Yahoo Mail features can help you stay on top of your inbox: → Spaces creates AI-powered views in your inbox that organize important parts of your life, surfacing info when you need it. → Streaks help lighten the load of daily inbox management and build more organized habits. → Challenges break big inbox cleanups into manageable, bite-sized steps during busy email seasons. Learn more about what your inbox persona says about you, and which tools will help you reach true inbox zen: https://lnkd.in/g42AfMGK
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Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone's secret to succeeding at work? It's something you learned in school. Read his advice and other “new rules” for succeeding at work in The Wall Street Journal (as told to Chip Cutter): https://lnkd.in/gGDugVGW
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In the latest edition of ⚒️ Built by Yahoo 🧰, a series exploring the tech, talent, and tactics modernizing our products, we ask: what happens when code stops being the bottleneck? As AI has dramatically streamlined software production, it has also dramatically changed how engineers think about their careers. The role is moving to a higher level of abstraction. Engineering value increasingly comes from defining problems, evaluating solutions, and improving the way teams build. As Matt Sanchez says: "The real work is moving to specification and evaluation—to thinking through what you're trying to accomplish rather than the implementation layer. That will play to the strengths of the very best engineers." Get the full story: https://lnkd.in/eVjsKZME
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Forever* starts now 💘 *Football season. The big day (the first game day of the season) is here, so take the plunge and sign up for Yahoo Fantasy: https://lnkd.in/ghukk4JF
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This summer, Yahoo launched a new original series that goes deep on some of the topics everyone is talking about, from TikTok-era wedding etiquette to Gen Z’s fear of being “cringe.” And now, with September here, we’re turning to 🎒 back-to-school season 📚 As part of the series, we partnered with Walmart to launch a new interactive and shoppable Back to School hub. Explore the biggest trends shaping school life right now, so you can talk to the kids in your life without getting quite as many eye-rolls: 🙄 💯 100 back-to-school trends kids actually care about in 2026: https://lnkd.in/epGJVXQN 🧸 The significance behind squishies (and other toys your kid is obsessed with): https://lnkd.in/geX_WWHy 💅 Today’s tweens are tastemakers: https://lnkd.in/egp6mrYW 🍵 How much matcha can fit in a mini fridge? Inside the college wellness movement: https://lnkd.in/evbHZsxq
