Jim Lanzone’s Post

So excited to welcome Rob Wilk to Yahoo to run our newly-established consumer ad sales group. We got to know Rob when he ran advertising for Microsoft, which included oversight of their deal with Yahoo. We were impressed by his strategic thinking, his amazing team, and his knack for being a great partner, which led to a seamless negotiation on our extension. Rob is a former Yahoo (from the Jerry days!) who has seen it all in the ad world, and is still passionate about the Yahoo brand and possibilities, even after years away. Now his role will be to partner with our GMs to drive premium sales across all of our consumer properties. Welcome back Rob! LFG. https://lnkd.in/e_BgK4gp

It's alive! Awesome to see the new Yahoo news app, powered by our Artifact acquisition, launch today. Wired says "It's kind of like Spotify, but for news. Even at first glance, the difference is immediately noticeable. The app looks slick and uncluttered, and it’s simple to navigate." Great job by Kat Downs Mulder and her amazing team on the Yahoo side, and of course Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger for creating Artifact and then working with Yahoo to make this new product a reality. Much more to come from both Yahoo News and the overall Yahoo Home experience/ecosystem very soon. https://lnkd.in/ewWADDHT

Email is easy to take for granted in 2024, but for most people it's still a fundamental part of running their day-to-day lives. In many ways it's their real home online, even as they've added more forms of communication and consumption over the years. For 25+ years, Yahoo Mail has been a trusted partner for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Our team, newly led by Rob Gelick and Kyle Miller, wants that to be the case for 25+ more years, so we've taken this product incredibly seriously. We think there's a lot more we can do, product-wise, to make email communications and inbox management a much richer and more useful experience. We really want to see how far we can go to help our users more easily and effectively manage their lives through their inbox. That starts today with the launch of the new Yahoo Mail.