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Research Publication: Deeply Supervised Model for Click-Through Rate Prediction in Sponsored Search

In sponsored search it is critical to match ads that are relevant to a query and to accurately predict their likelihood of being clicked.

Phishing Test Click-Rate Metrics: a Measure of Email Marketing, not Phishing Resilience

How The Paranoids, Verizon Media's security team, measure phishing test performance.

Research Publication: Soft Frequency Capping for Improved Ad Click Prediction in Yahoo Gemini Native

Yahoo’s native advertising (also known as Gemini native) serves billions of ad impressions daily, reaching a yearly run-rate of many hundred of millions USD.

Research Publication: Feature Enhancement via User Similarities Networks for Improved Click Prediction in Yahoo Gemini Native

Yahoo’s native advertising marketplace (also known as Gemini native) serves billions of ad impressions daily, reaching many hundreds of millions USD in yearly revenue.

Research Publication: Unbiased Filtering of Accidental Clicks in Verizon Media Native Advertising

Verizon Media (VZM) native advertising is one of VZM largest and fastest growing businesses, reaching a run-rate of several hundred million USD in the past year.

Research Publication: DeepLight: Deep Lightweight Feature Interactions for Accelerating CTR Predictions in Ad Serving

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online display advertising.

Research Publication: FM^2: Field-Matrixed Factorization Machines for Recommender Systems

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a critical role in recommender systems and online advertising.

Research Publication: Position-Aware Deep Character-Level CTR Prediction for Sponsored Search

Predicting the click-through rate of an advertisement is a critical component of online advertising platforms.

Social Media Account Takeover Change

As of today, we will only accept reports for `Social Media Account Takeovers` that contain Verizon Media accounts which have posted content within the last 365 days (from date of submission).

Yahoo Inc | How to measure your marketing in an ID-less environment

A decline in addressable inventory is one of the biggest challenges facing brands—but Yahoo is building solutions to predict conversions across environments where ID isn’t present.

Research Publication: Dynamic Creative Optimization in Verizon Media Native Advertising

Verizon media (VZM) native advertising serves billions of ad impressions daily, reaching a yearly run-rate of many hundred of millions USD.

Jim Lanzone to Join Yahoo as Chief Executive Officer

Yahoo, Inc. has announced the appointment of Jim Lanzone as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 27, 2021. Lanzone, a veteran technology and media executive with more than two decades of leadership experience and a deep track record of growth and innovation, will succeed Guru Gowrappan, who has been named Senior Advisor to Apollo’s private equity business.

Research Publication: TSI: An Ad Text Strength Indicator Using Text-to-CTR and Semantic-Ad-Similarity

Coming up with effective ad text is a time consuming process, andparticularly challenging for small businesses with limited advertis-ing experience.

Research Publication: Conversion-Based Dynamic-Creative - Optimization in Native Advertising

Yahoo Gemini native advertising marketplace serves billions of impressions daily, to hundreds millions of unique users, and reaches a yearly revenue of many hundreds of millions USDs. Powering Gemini native models for predicting advertise (ad) event probabilities, such as conversions and clicks, is OFFSET - a feature enhanced collaborative-filtering (CF) based event prediction algorithm.

Yahoo Inc | Meet the top performing ad creative of 2021 in Hong Kong

A good creative ad could effectively make a sale, gain new customers or loyal ambassadors and boost brand value.

Research Publication: Dynamic Length Factorization Machinesfor CTR Prediction

Ad click-though rate prediction (pCTR) is one of the core tasks of online advertising. Driving the pCTR models of Yahoo Gemini native advertising is OffSet - a feature enhanced collaborative-filtering based event prediction algorithm.

Yahoo Sportsbook Powered by BetMGM Launches in New York Featuring Registration Promotional Offers

With Yahoo Sportsbook powered by BetMGM now live in New York, users of legal age are able to click through the odds on Yahoo Sports and the Yahoo Sports app to place bets through the BetMGM platform.

Yahoo Mail Redesigns The Inbox For A Cleaner, Smarter And Simpler Experience

AI-powered message summaries, quick actions and intuitive design make email and task management easier than ever

Research Publication: Bandit Multiclass Linear Classification: Efficient Algorithms for the Separable Case

We study the problem of efficient online multiclass linear classification with bandit feedback, where all examples belong to one of K classes and lie in the d-dimensional Euclidean space.

H1-2010 How We Got Here

The Paranoids’ bug bounty team is so excited to open up about this brand new event format. In some ways, you could say that we have been working towards this moment, this specific event, since November 2017.

Yahoo Inc | Notice: Saying goodbye to the Video SSP and Exchange

Verizon Media Video SSP and Exchange sunsets – video supply has moved to Yahoo SSP and Exchange, an omnichannel platform for publishers and buyers.

Yahoo Inc | Yahoo Blueprint Performance, the optimal ghost in the machine

AI might seem like a spooky ghost in the machine, but it’s more like a friendly phantom optimizing your campaigns! Discover how Yahoo Blueprint Performance drives results across the entire funnel and explore one of its core features, Customer Value Optimization.

Research Publication: Carousel Ads Optimization in Yahoo Gemini Native

Yahoo’s native advertising (also known as Gemini native) serves billions of ad impressions daily, reaching a yearly run-rate of many hundred of millions USD.

Identity Solutions | Demand Side Platform | Yahoo Inc.

Discover how Yahoo DSP identity solutions leverage advanced tech to deliver personalized, privacy-first advertising experiences across devices and platforms.

Research Area: Advertising Science

We combine our immense trove of data with tools from large-scale machine learning, statistical modeling, feedback control, and more to develop the high-performing and robust algorithms that drive impression allocation and ad serving. including machine learning, statistics, operations research, economics, mathematics, control theory, etc. Some representative areas of work are: click and conversion prediction, viewability and video completion prediction, incremental reach optimization, campaign budget spend pacing, bidding strategies, supply path optimization, app marketing optimization, and optimization and performance measurement on internet traffic with privacy-driven restricted user traceability.

New Study by Verizon Media, Magna, & IPG Media Lab Finds Interactive Ad Formats Engage Hard-to-Convince Audiences

New Study by Verizon Media, Magna, & IPG Media Lab Finds Interactive Ad Formats Engage Hard-to-Convince Audiences

Stop Giving Impossible Advice: Telling People to Watch Out for SUSPICIOUS EMAILS is Nonsense.

It’s time to admit the long list of security advice the security industry espouses is real short on why anyone would want to adopt it. Our plea: stop giving impossible advice!

Yahoo Spins Out Vespa, Its Enterprise AI-Scaling Engine, as an Independent Company

Leveraged By the World’s Leading Tech and Financial Services Companies; Yahoo To Remain Largest Customer and Investor

Research Publication: Predicting Different Types of Conversions with Multi-Task Learning in Online Advertising

Conversion prediction plays an important role in online advertising since Cost-Per-Action (CPA) has become one of the primary campaign performance objectives in the industry.

Yahoo Inc | More engaging ad assets with Yahoo Exchange Creative Service

Yahoo has a comprehensive programmatic ecosystem that ranges from demand-side platforms (DSPs) and Exchange, to supply-side platforms (SSPs).