The number one thing you should know about Yahoo Japan’s DMP: It’s not a walled garden. “Our data strategy is open, that’s the key word here,” said Toru Takata, SVP and chief product officer for marketing solutions at Yahoo Japan. “Our policy is about being completely open about our data.” Yahoo Japan, founded in 1996 […]
Beginning in September, Yahoo Japan will use Taboola’s video discovery and content distribution network to power recommendations on owned and operated properties, as well as partner publisher sites, with the rollout of Yahoo Content Discovery. Yahoo Japan is a joint venture of Yahoo and SoftBank. In addition to its role as an online search and Internet […]
BrightTag’s Asia-Pacific expansion plans are brighter now that the company has added an additional $27 million in financing from investor and partner Yahoo Japan. Existing investors, including Baird Capital, EPIC Ventures, I2A Fund, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and TomorrowVentures also participated in the round; BrightTag raised $15 million in April 2012 and has more than […]
Retargeting specialist Criteo has an agreement to exclusively provide “personalized” display advertising across Yahoo Japan’s inventory. This the first time a third party entity has been given access to Yahoo Japan’s ad system. Last week, the 16-year-old Yahoo Japan, which was created as a joint venture between Yahoo and Japanese investment firm Softbank, posted a […]
