In one of his first interviews after seven months spent learning the business from the “inside out,” Levinsohn talked to paidContent about Yahoo’s underestimated value as a content company, Carol Bartz as CEO, potential M&A activity, and more. Excerpts from the interview are on paidContent.org.
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Yahoo’s #1 Verticals |
Yahoo Video |
Yahoo Blogs |
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Yahoo is the #1 site in the U.S. with 187 million users (more than Google, Facebook and AOL). |
23 million streams in April |
More than 57 million U.S. users read Yahoo blogs (more than the Huffington Post) |
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Finance has 43 million users (23 million more than #2 Dow Jones). |
Yahoo has 9 of the top 10 original video programs online (more users than Hulu). |
They generate over 1.2 billion pageviews on Oscars content experience |
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News has 88 million users (12 million more than #2 CNN). |
Yahoo produces an average 20 original programs per month. |
Sports blogs generated over 1 billion pageviews in Q1 |
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Sports has 46 million users (6 million more than #2 ESPN). |
Primetime in No Time has over 500 million streams. |
There were 3 billion clicks on the Today module on Yahoo’s homepage in Q1 |
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Entertainment has 29 million users (14 million more than #2 TMZ). |
Daily Ticker has more than 3 million viewers per month — more than every CNBC business show (except Mad Money). |
Source: Internal and comScore data provided by Yahoo
Produced by: Amanda Natividad
Edited by: Staci D. Kramer
Published: June 6, 2011

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