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Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience

September 18, 2025 / 31:44

This episode of Marketing Matters features Shannon Sheay Montoya, the global head of B2B marketing and sponsorships at Yahoo. Key topics include Yahoo's current market position, storytelling in marketing, and recent physical activations at events like South by Southwest and Cannes Lions.

Shannon discusses Yahoo's 30th anniversary and its significant audience reach, noting that 90% of the US internet population visits Yahoo monthly. She emphasizes the importance of brand awareness and the company's ongoing product innovations.

The conversation shifts to storytelling as a marketing strategy, with Shannon sharing personal anecdotes and examples of successful campaigns that leverage emotional connections to create lasting memories.

Shannon describes a recent event at South by Southwest, where Yahoo created an immersive experience called "disco necked" to engage influencers and taste makers. This event showcased Yahoo's brand identity and aimed to foster joyful moments.

Finally, Shannon highlights Yahoo's presence at the Cannes Lions festival, discussing how they transformed a beach into a nostalgic motel experience to connect with advertisers and showcase their products creatively.

TLDR

Shannon Montoya discusses Yahoo's marketing strategies, storytelling, and recent event activations at South by Southwest and Cannes Lions.

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Hello and welcome. You're listening to Marketing Matters on the Wharton Podcast
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Network, which is our weekly podcast where we analyze the latest in advertising, marketing, customer
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behavior, new product launches, retailing. I'm Barbara Khan, the Patty and JH Baker Professor of Marketing. And
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my co-host host, America's Reed, is out of town. I think he's in Austin. um he's
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doing his magic somewhere else, but he'll be back and he's sorry to miss
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this show, but instead of him, we have a wonderful guest. So, I'm really excited
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about having our guest and we'll try to do without Americas this time. Let me
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introduce Shannon Sheay Montoya who's the global head of B2B marketing and sponsorships and events at Yahoo. Hello,
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Shannon. >> Hi, Barbara. I'm so excited to spend part of my day with you. Thank you for
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having me. >> Yeah, I'm really excited to have you both because of your particular role,
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your background, things you've done in the past. I want to talk about all of
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that, but also about Yahoo. So, let's start with Yahoo just a little bit. So,
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pe remind people um what Yahoo does, how they make their money, things like that.
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Obviously, Yahoo is a well-known brand. I think a lot of people have the brand awareness of Yahoo, but I mean, I wonder
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if you'll disagree with me to say that >> it used to be the king of the internet.
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Like, it was the name that came to mind top of mind maybe in the 2000s and now it's gotten a lot of competition from
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other platforms. So, it's kind of an interesting marketing story because you
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do have brand awareness. People kind of know what Yahoo does. Um, but it's not
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at the peak that it once was. First of all, do you agree with that with that assessment or disagree?
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>> Well, I might have some things that might surprise you in the audience a
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little bit. So, Yahoo, we're actually celebrating our 30th anniversary this year, which is really exciting. And um
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you know, Yahoo is still a top five internet property. >> Uh 90% of the US internet population
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comes to Yahoo every month. So, that's nine and 10 people come to Yahoo every
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month. That's >> That does surprise me. a massive audience and out of that nearly 50%
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of unique uh visitors to Yahoo are Gen Z and Millennials. So also a younger user
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base as well. >> Um you know and then Yahoo has just an incredible portfolio of products and
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brands including Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, Search Mail. Um there's been ton and we've spent the
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last couple of years really cooking on that product innovation have been coming out with new releases and we'll continue
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to do so. So a lot of exciting innovation happening at Yahoo right now and again like massive audience across
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the board. >> Yeah. I mean I I didn't mean to diminish that because I did see another statistic
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that said that you had three billion web visits in February was on par with Amazon. So it's not not top liver, so to
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speak. >> Exactly. Exactly. And and it is a brand that people, you know, they know and
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they and they really like. Yahoo. Yahoo has a general sentiment around it that's
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that's joy and celebratory. And what we, you know, our goal is to really try and
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be that that place to help you achieve your goals on a daily basis. So whether that's, you know, checking your mail or
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checking your uh, you know, investments or maybe crushing it in fantasy, of which I have a little work to do in my
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own fantasy bracket. Um, but I'm I'm doing okay. I'm riding midfield right
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now. But, um, you know, all of these all of these things help you to accomplish,
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you know, these little goals and these little tasks every day um that bring that that joy and enjoyment to your
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life. So, let's just I mean I just want to just quickly run down the revenue
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models just so we see and then where you fit in and what your goals are. So, I mean I guess their primary service is
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web portal, online service, content and media and like you said they have some premium services, some subscriptions um
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that are pretty big. They obviously make I mean they have email and communication
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which you already mentioned and then they obviously make money on advertising on technology. A lot of the revenue I
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think comes through advertising and and subscription. And then where I think you
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come in, there's also this small business domain hosting and a lot of B2B business. Do you want to and that's I
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think kind of where your where your job is. Is that right? Or I think that was in your title.
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>> Yeah. So part of my role um I do oversee all of our in a very simplified format.
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It's all of our um it's all of our business and experience marketing. So
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business includes all of our B2B marketing and really what we're doing is supporting the advertising across Yahoo.
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We have two different advertising divisions within Yahoo. We have Yahoo ads which is a direct business into our
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owned and operated um into our owned and operated properties including Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yah and given the
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reach and scale and unique data that we get from all of those properties, it's a
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pretty incredible offering to the advertising community. The other advertising offering that we have is our
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Yahoo DSP. And for the audience who might not know, a DSP is a demandside platform. And I think the easiest way to
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describe that is if you think about it in the realm of sort of stocks. So instead of instead of trading on stocks,
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we actually trade on attention. And so every every um micro investment um into impressions is a way in which
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you you know reach your audiences and achieve your marketing goals and results. Um you know in a in a stock
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portfolio you trade on the New York Stock Exchange or you trade on NASDAQ. In digital marketing, you trade on the
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DSP connects you to exchanges um that allow you to you know success again successfully
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deliver on your marketing objectives. So it's easy to kind of think about it
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comparison to the stock market. Um it's just it's essentially the way digital
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digital exchanges work. The difference is stocks versus attention. And so what I oversee is a lot of our business
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marketing that is to connect to those advertisers. And where I come into play is really,
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you know, what's important is really differentiating differentiating both our
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ads offering, our Yahoo ads offering and our Yahoo DSP offering, which is um it's
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it's it is the number one rated DSP amongst um our customers. And also in head-to-head competition against other
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DSPs, the Yahoo DSP wins 90% of the time. I don't know how many things win 90% of the time, but again, that's a
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pretty incredible offering. And so, where we come in is really around uh the storytelling of that. So, how are we
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telling a differentiated story and narrative in the market that showcases these unique offerings
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built on this incredible firstparty data that we get from search, from mail, and
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from content, which again makes us a really unique offering to the advertising community.
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>> Yeah. So, I'm going to talk about some of the other things that you do and I
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would like to talk a little bit about your background, but let me double down on this idea of storytelling that you
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just brought up. Um, so can you give us some examples of how storytelling can make a measurable impact? Um, you know,
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how can you measure that? How do you know story? It's fine to say that, but how do you really know that how
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important storytelling is and and how it impacts the business? >> Yeah. So, so storytelling for me is
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something that's very much in my ethos. I come from a big big family and so storytelling and being good at stories
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was a way to win you the conversation at the dinner table. Um, so it's something
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that's, you know, a big part of my life. I and and um something that I love to
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do. It's part of what brings me so much joy. Um I was at you know and probably
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for me one of the earliest examples of really good storytelling was years ago um it still exists today but in a
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different form. There was a uh museum, a small museum in Paris in Mumar um dedicated to Salvador
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Delhi, one of the greatest storytellers of our time, right? He >> from filmmaker to musician to inventor
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to artist, just an incredible storyteller. And there was this very small museum. It was like a hidden gem
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in Paris. And and you walked downstairs and you were brought into this world of Salvador Dolly. his voice played in the
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background and all his sculptures sort of came to light and the lights would dim and and get brighter as he got
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closer to it and and there was um you know his his famous statue of the Venus deio with the with the drawers
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>> and it's all around the idea that you you know build these memories throughout
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your lifetime that then impact who you become in the future, the decisions you're make you make and how
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you live out your life. So, fast forward, I was at an event a few weeks ago with Giant Spoon. Um, and they had
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an incredible um chef there from Unapologetic Foods who your interview a few weeks ago from Resi. She she
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referenced the chef from Unapologetic Foods and some of the work they had been doing with him. uh we had a filmmaker
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there and then there was a neuroscientist there and he described memory as it's past
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events that influence decisions in the future and what storytelling does is storytelling can then shape and
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transform that memory to make it even more impactful. So what would have been just a sort of normal memory makes it
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something that's absolutely unforgettable. And then what I love about that is you
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take it a step further and think about some of the work that we're doing. Those
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shared stories then become um collective memory, right? And so all of a sudden what you've done within that
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marketing campaign or event or live experience extends beyond the people even that are within that room. You can
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do that through social, you can do that through digital. You can do that through
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influencer. All of these different channels that help to to scale that experience to a much greater degree.
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>> So So let me just summarize a little bit of what you just said if I understand
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it. And I'm thinking I just finished reading the undoing project which was about Danny Conorman and Amos Tverki and
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they came up with this you know behavioral economics and different ways of thinking about it. And the way you
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just described it is one of the things that Danny Conorman did independent of Amos actually after Amos um died and and
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part of the reason he got the um Nobel Prize was this idea of retrospective or memories shaping your expectation.
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So it shapes your future impression. That's like what I think you said. Um this idea that the reason it's important
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is because of the way it shapes going forward what you remember. Um and creating this salient memory. That's
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what I think you said. Is that did I get that right? >> Yeah, I think that's spot on. And I
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think what's really interesting is what a marketer does or I always refer to my
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team as live storytellers. What they do is they come in and they harness those memories, right, of what we build
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alongside and for our customers and consumers and they shape that and they strengthen that memory to a much greater
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degree so that it has an even stronger lasting impact on um how on their actions towards not only your
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organization but the future. So in essence sort of at the end of the day um you know me and my team are really in
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that business of creating memories that not only move people but move markets. >> Yeah. So that so that's interesting. So,
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I get the theory and I actually think, like I said, I think it it's a Nobel Prize winning theory in some sense
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because this idea of how these things link together is is important and it was um theoretically it's an interesting
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idea as well as practically as you're describing it and and living it really.
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But what I'm wondering is um can you how do you do measurement in that? Do you
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actually measure like attention and then memory and then do any kind of analytics
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on like what creates or is it a lot of kind of instinct or I guess that's the
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question how much of it is based on data that you literally know form these memories and then form expectations or
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is it kind of intuitive and creatives do it? >> Well, I think it's a it's a little bit
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of all of that, right? So you have to you have to lean into your data and insights to make sure that you know what
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you're doing is going to resonate um and has cultural relevance to it as well. Um
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you know like like like all brands you know Yahoo as well is trying to reach a younger generation of u millennials and
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gen Z's. So when we think about the types of executions that we're doing we
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want to make sure that we are really leaned in to what's happening in culture. And so the data and insights of
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course help to inform what that looks like. Um and then on top of it, you know, there is a sense of creativity and
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you have to um you know, and we have measurement of sort of what's worked for
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us in the past. Um you know, how we continue to evolve that in bringing the brand to life. But I think a really good
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example of this is, you know, we did a consumer experience at South by Southwest um a couple of years ago. Uh
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we partnered with this incredible human being. His name is Marty Bell. He started a company called um Pool Suite
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and it was to he was he was uh from Scotland and it was a digital it was a digital radio station with these sort of
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retro8s 90s kind of discoesque tones that really took you on a vacation. And the reason being is he was in Scotland
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during these cold winters and he really wanted to just vacation away from all of
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that. And then on top of that he started adding these incredible um you know retro beach images from the 80s and the
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'9s and just created this whole vibe around this world. you know, for for Yahoo as well, being that we're, you
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know, 30-year-old company, we started on the early onset of the internet in the '9s and yet, you know, continue to have
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this strong relevance and audience today. Leaning into that nostalgia and that modern vintage is something that's
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also really important to us. So, we recognized, you know, that Marty started to get this incredible audience of
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influencers and taste makers. We wanted to show up at South by Southwest. So we partnered together on this incredible
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experience. Um we called it disco necked. Um so disco and then necked. Um as an opportunity to really lean into
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the vibe of what was happening today in internet culture and that people wanted a moment to just disconnect and time
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away. And so netn net the experience was we took over the hotel vanzant in in Austin, Texas during South by Southwest.
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The audience was influencers and taste makers that we wanted to get get in front of
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>> and we threw this 10-hour party 10 hours Barbara backtoback non-stop line around
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the block >> for 10 full hours >> and just transported people into this
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early internet vibe. >> Oh wow. So, you know, you walked in, the entire >> It was so fun. The entire space was
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covered in disco balls and palm frrons. We did the We did the complete space. We
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had You were greeted by this incredible influencer, Corey Ray, who was sitting at, you know, a '9s style desk. Um, old
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school secretary sort of checking you into the party. Um we had uh drinks that were named like dialup daquiri, so
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custom drinks made. Um just this really incredible combination of bringing together the data and insights around
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what was happening in culture uh alongside um you know just this incredible creativity that we co-created
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with this the Marty Bell and the amazing team at Pool Suite. And throughout the day, we had over 2,000 people. You know,
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one of my favorite comments from the day was, "Yahoo is a move. I'll take it.
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Yahoo is a move." And um there was awesome sort of scale and content uh content and scale coming out of that
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event as well. So, I think a really good representation. Also, I oversee all of our um media and brand partnerships and
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just a really good representation of how partners can help you achieve those goals.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. Collaborators. That's Yeah, that's an interesting thing. That's
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definitely the style of today's go to market strategies, who you're going to
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collaborate with, and how you So, what you're describing create these storytellers, create these memories
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because they're important to shape the brand and shape future experiences. And
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now you just described this physical activation and from what I understand Yahoo is really doubling down now on
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these physical act um activations and looking for places to to put them in the culture. I guess you're also probably I
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mean the people who you want there will be the influencers will be people who are um I mean I guess you don't want
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just anybody in these. You only have 2,000 people. You have a small select audience in there. If you consider the
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whole world, >> it would be better if they were >> people that you know you're going to get
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more of an impact on. So my guess is you do these physical activations in specific places because they sound
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pretty expensive. They may deliver a lot of value, but you're going to have to
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pick and choose where you're going to do it. And I know you recently did one at
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Con. Is that right? Um yeah. >> And so like I mean the one you just described was at South by Southwest. So,
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you're at a conference that attracts a certain kind of people at Khan. I mean,
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I never been to Khan, but it sounds pretty cool. I mean, I guess it's people
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in the film industry, social media influencers, like who goes to Khan and why did you choose that? And then what
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did you do at Khan in that sense? >> Well, I think you hit on something really important, right? And in first
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and foremost, you have to really when you're when you're building these strategies, you have to be super
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centered on who your audience is and what you're hoping to achieve from that
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audience, right? And so South by Southwest was a very specific move to get in front of influencers and taste
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makers. It was a consumer first event from the business side. Can which is actually it's interesting most people
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are aware of the film festival. What they don't know or people within the advertising um industry are well aware
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of is that about a month after the film festival there's another festival called
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the can lions festival of creativity and it is an advertising and marketing festival it is actually bigger than the
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can film festival >> and it brings the likes of uh Yahoo, Google, Pinterest, uh Meta, all of the
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major players within the advertising and marketing industry. >> Oh wow, what a great event.
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>> Yeah, Barbara, you should be there. You always, you know, you have >> drooling. It sounds terrific.
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>> It's terrific. And it's it's they take over, we take over the entire can. It's
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like an a massive reunion of sorts in some way. Um, but there are incredible conversations taking place around
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creativity and around collaboration and how brands can work together. Um it's
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it's it's one of the most important moments that we create um throughout the
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year. So we show up there every year. This is a business audience. So we are trying to reach
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>> advertisers across brands and agencies. Um and this past year I think was one of
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our our best years ever. So we were once again leaning into nostalgia. we were leaning into that that that modern
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vintage spirit and tone that we love so much. And one of the insights we had was
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that first and foremost we a lot of people remember Yahoo for the iconic Billboard in San Francisco, a nice place
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to stay on the internet. Um, and that's a a big part of our ethos and something
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we play into quite a bit. And then on top of that, we were also noticing this trend that people were, you know, taking
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over these old motel and turning them into these full experience destinations. >> And we didn't know that was a trend.
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That's interesting. >> It's a trend. It's a trend. Um, we we loved that idea. And so we built this
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year at Can we took over an entire beach and we built an erected motel Yahoo which you can see above me uh was one of
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the signs that came from that beach space. It did make it over here all the way from Can France which I'm very it
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just only came the other day. This is a festival that happens in June. Um and it
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was uh we completely transformed this space. And what I what I really love about that is that we took sometimes
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what are normally kind of boring stats or and we we developed them into experiences. So to showcase the variety
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of our products, we had, you know, the Yahoo search bar which served as our bar. We had a reception desk where you
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could pick up a key that had a different um a different Yahoo fact on it and that
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key would take you to a private meeting room of which you would meet with you know our salespeople would meet with um
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with their clients. Uh we had uh for Yahoo mail we had this incredible we had like a mailbox and we did these custom
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postcards because people are away from their families a week and so and you don't have time to really you know do
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touristy things while you're in can. So we had all of these postcards made. You
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could send them through Yahoo Mail Home. Uh we had a mini golf course that was Yahoo Sports and we showcased some of
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the the awesome Yahoo Sports partnerships that we had done recently. Um so just a really incredible way to
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bring the brand to life in a fun way that people could see it, feel it, taste it um in this spirit of modern vintage.
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And so it's really once again about bringing these joyful moments to life. I
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just want to interrupt for you one second because what's interesting to me about what you're talking about is you
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are a digital brand. You know that's what you are and yet what you're talking
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about here to create these memories is a very physical activation and and I that's I love that because people think
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we're getting more and more digital. I think what's special about this is that
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you're going to the right place at the right time getting people together so
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you get that social effect. But as you're telling me this story, I can picture these things. And I can imagine
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if I was there, the fact that it was a physical activation would make it very salient. Just as you said in the
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beginning at, you know, when you were a kid growing up in your family, it would definitely be a concrete story that I
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would tell other people because it would shape a memory. And it's because it's
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this physical activation that it becomes such a salient memory. Do you think that's true?
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>> Yes. And people are craving that, Barbara. They're craving these in-person
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moments. And and I think it is because, you know, there there's so much of an
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overlap now between your work life and your personal life. And these become those memories and these stories that
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they then share on, right? And that's how we that's how we scale and grow
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everything that we're doing. But there's it is such a tangible way to get people
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excited about the brand and what you're doing. So, it sounds like a great idea,
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but it also sounds like a lot of work. I'm just curious like I mean everything
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you described, how long did it take you and your team to put together something like this? That's
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>> I'm thinking like >> Well, this is a it's a year >> it's a that can in itself is a year-long
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endeavor, right? And we finished can and then next week we're already talking
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about what we're going to do next year. Yeah. >> But this is among a multitude of other
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things that we're doing as well. Right. So, we have a big presence at CES. We
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have a big presence at there's a new uh festival uh called Possible that takes
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place in May um down in Miami. I'm sorry, in April down in Miami. Uh we have our Yahoo New Front, which is our
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showcase of all of our digital content to advertisers that takes place in New York. Uh, you know, we've had the likes
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of everyone from Carmelo Anthony to Russell Wilson to Chance the Rapper to Diplo. All of this talent that we're
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partnering with to help to drive home, >> you know, our story and where we're
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going. >> You've convinced me. I want your job. Like, I do love my job. I love my I do. And
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because I love I love storytelling and I love creating memories. But you know, one of the things I love the most,
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Barbara, is that I attend a lot of these a lot of these thought leadership conversations
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and people ask, you know, what's the most important thing people need to have
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in marketing and they say curiosity and everyone says curiosity and I love it. Of course, we want people to feel
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curious or to be curious. The problem with curiosity is that even with curiosity, you're going to you're going
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to edge one direction or the other, right? So, part of my philosophy is to just say
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yes to things. Say yes. Say yes to going out to dinner when you're tired. Say yes
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to working with a new partner. Say yes to trying something that you've never
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done before and using it as a test and learn. It's in those moments that you
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know, you leverage the data, the insights, the creativity. You pull that all together. But I think what makes an
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exceptional marketer is those who are able to pull back a little bit and let the the unknown happen. Let the magic
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happen on its own. And one of my favorite stories about that is uh a couple of years ago we at CES
00:27:43
we have a combination our strategy includes a combination of you know developing these spaces for these
00:27:50
onetoone meetings to take place with advertisers and then finding a moment where we can reach our audience our our
00:27:57
customer audience our client audience at scale. And so that's often through these
00:28:02
big parties and events. And so we decided to after deciding what kind of talent we wanted to work with,
00:28:11
we decided to work with Wuang. Now Wuang had just celebrated their 30th anniversary of 36 Chambers, which was
00:28:20
their first album. They had just announced a residency in Las Vegas, which we were going to be at. They have
00:28:28
incredible longstanding cultural relevance. I know you and I were vibing on Brooklyn earlier and I swear every
00:28:36
third person in Brooklyn is still wearing a Wuang t-shirt, including like little 5-year-old kids.
00:28:43
So, the incredible thing about the Wuang Clan is that there are eight, originally
00:28:49
nine, but we'll put an aster there are members of Wuang Clan. So, you don't really know what you're
00:28:56
going to get. You don't. We didn't totally know whether we were going to
00:29:00
get all eight members. Maybe we'd get six, maybe we'd get five. We were hoping
00:29:04
for all eight. The night comes and we get notification right before all eight are there. All eight.
00:29:12
Curtains open. We're at this incredible venue called Voltater, the Venetian, um,
00:29:17
which is also under the Apollo portfolio, as is Yahoo. curtains open and then one by one they have this
00:29:25
incredible we put this incredible video surrounding it. We did custom merch with
00:29:30
Wuang Clan. We did, you know, had an incredible experience built around it. But what they delivered and what we
00:29:36
allowed the artists to do best was they all came out one by one in shadow. The audience is going nuts. They do all of
00:29:45
their original songs from 36 Chambers. And then they did um they did covers of things like the Beatles and the Stones
00:29:56
and some of the best renditions I've heard. >> But what was amazing is the final sort
00:30:02
of segment they did was an homage to to hip-hop artists who have passed away. M >> so Biggie, Tupac, DMX,
00:30:11
and then they pause for a second and they say, "And the greatest of all time,
00:30:16
OB, who was the the original Wuang member who had passed away here." The perform
00:30:23
for him is his son, YB. Oh, good. He comes out. He's a spitting image of his
00:30:31
father, but with his own style and his own flare. And everyone just you could just see the excitement
00:30:39
>> in that room and those memories building >> to a point where you know it just these
00:30:45
are things that people are going to share for generations and generations. Incredible.
00:30:50
>> It's like breathtaking. You are a very good storyteller. But you know what? Our
00:30:55
time is up. Thank you so much for joining us. Where can our listeners go to keep up with all of this and learn
00:31:01
all about this? You can go to yahooink.com, our website. And of course, you go to yahoo.com, visit our
00:31:08
incredible pro products and all of the work that we're doing across Yahoo to
00:31:13
really connect you to the things that you love and to one another. >> That sounds great. Thank you so much for
00:31:19
joining us today. Um, and I'd like to thank our producers, Dion Simkins and Marissa Rena. Thank you all for
00:31:25
listening. We'll be back next week. Till then, this has been Marketing Matters on
00:31:29
the Wharton Podcast Network. I'm Barb Khan here without America's rea but
00:31:35
he'll be back next week. Thank you. [Music]

Episode Highlights

  • Yahoo's 30th Anniversary
    Shannon shares that Yahoo is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, still ranking as a top five internet property.
    “Yahoo is still a top five internet property.”
    @ 01m 50s
    September 18, 2025
  • The Power of Storytelling
    Shannon discusses how storytelling shapes memories and influences future decisions, emphasizing its importance in marketing.
    “We’re in the business of creating memories that move people and markets.”
    @ 12m 27s
    September 18, 2025
  • Transforming Boring Stats into Experiences
    Yahoo created engaging experiences at a festival to showcase their brand.
    “We took what are normally kind of boring stats and developed them into experiences.”
    @ 22m 22s
    September 18, 2025
  • The Power of In-Person Connections
    In a digital age, physical activations create lasting memories and connections.
    “People are craving these in-person moments.”
    @ 24m 39s
    September 18, 2025
  • A Memorable Performance by Wu-Tang Clan
    The Wu-Tang Clan's performance included a touching tribute to their late member.
    “They say, 'And the greatest of all time, OB.'”
    @ 30m 16s
    September 18, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • Yahoo is still a top five internet property.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience
  • Yahoo has a general sentiment around it that’s joy and celebratory.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience
  • We’re in the business of creating memories that move people and markets.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience
  • People are craving these in-person moments.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience
  • Say yes to trying something you’ve never done before.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience
  • These are things that people are going to share for generations.
    Yahoo Turns 30 Years Old: Marketing Strategy Through Storytelling and Experience

Key Moments

  • Guest Introduction00:38
  • Yahoo's Brand Discussion01:05
  • Storytelling Importance07:36
  • Event at South by Southwest15:31
  • Nostalgia and Collaboration20:46
  • Physical Activation23:50
  • Memorable Performance29:50

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