Jim Lanzone

CEO @Yahoo!

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Appreciate the deep dive and as @rustybrick, @mgsiegler and others have noted these were all core values of the product from the start.

Also important to note that the quality (and distinctiveness) of our answers stems in large part from the unique, structured Yahoo data that we package up and send to the LLM. This will amp up even more as we add personalization for our logged in users.

[Aleyda Solis 🕊️ @aleyda]

🤖 Yahoo! released Scout, its new AI search engine, a few days ago, and it has, hands down, the most “open web” friendly interface compared to ChatGPT or AI Mode… and honestly, the best interface overall 👇

I’ve been comparing Yahoo! Scout vs. ChatGPT & AI Mode across answer quality, formats, and link inclusion, testing different search intents and verticals, and I couldn’t believe how consistently Yahoo! Scout delivers a more user- and open-web-friendly answer experience:

* Across most answers, it features a prominent, highlighted “Read More” button linking directly to the most relevant source behind the answer.

* It includes links to external sites directly within the answers, starting from the very first paragraph, often showing dozens of links to original sources (in addition to linking to all sources together at the end in a sidebar). In contrast, other AI platforms include far fewer links in the answer itself, and mostly push users to a sidebar to access external sources.

* It’s honestly crazy that after so much time of complaints from website owners, publishers, and the SEO community, Yahoo! ends up releasing a far more “open web”-friendly interface in its AI platform than… Google, that has supposedly been committed to improving theirs.

Although I was skeptical when I first saw the announcement, I’m more than happy to eat my words, and I want to congratulate Yahoo! for designing not only an easy-to-use interface, but one that genuinely incentivizes users to keep browsing the sites where the answers come from 👏

I really hope product managers and designers at @Google and @OpenAI take note.

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

Excited to chat with @jlanzone about Yahoo’s AI strategy today!

[Ryan Spoon @ryanspoon]

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[Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance]

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[Microsoft 365 @Microsoft365]

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[Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance]

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[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Air Corgi is PERFECT in predicting the Western Conference Finals 🤯

Are the Spurs destined for the NBA Finals 🔮

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Big milestone for the Yahoo DSP. Thrilled to be partnering with Walmart.

[Rich Greenfield, LightShed 🔦 @RichLightShed]

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[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

SGA has made more free throws than field goals this postseason 😳

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@ThufirHawat @LMP19 Still had the hat - of course you did

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

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[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

“The internet giant is launching AlphaSpace, a customizable dashboard that aims to bring Wall Street-style research tools to 150 million everyday investors.” — ⁦⁦@FortuneMagazine⁩ https://t.co/30uU10mvLP

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

We launched another new thing today and I really love it: AlphaSpace - a pro level investing data dashboard/platform for Yahoo Finance power users. Really useful now and will keep getting better.

[Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance]

Today’s dynamic market requires a tool that empowers investors to analyze, build, and act faster.

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[AuDHD @SirAuDHD]

If yahoo finance and yahoo sports keep releasing bangers, they might be the place to go for traders and prediction market users

Great job to the yahoo team!

@jlanzone @ryanspoon

[Lis Smith @Lis_Smith]

BREAKING: New poll shows @DanielLurie is the most popular American mayor.

Key findings:
- 74% of SF voters approve of him
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- He earns support from across the political spectrum

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Been a very long time since they attempted to compete in search, so this is overdue. But the old team contributed meaningfully to the history of search - from core algorithms (including both Teoma and Direct Hit) to UI/UX innovations to NLP (which was way too early). Made it a lot farther than any of the other OG standalone engines not named Google, which wasn’t an obvious outcome after the crash. Plus the infamous @rustybrick wedding proposal. Good old days.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

@ThufirHawat https://t.co/Zw5E3Nlo5p

[80’s/90’s Plumbers Rep @MoryMagisSprts]

Any logical person knows Bron is the culprit. There’s video evidence. Bron throws Dray down, purposely steps over him then urged the league to suspend the victim. CLE comically vied for a 2 gm suspension.

Bron constantly insulting our intelligence.

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

The response to our Sports Business newsletter announcement has been amazing so far.

Shoot me a DM if you want early access.

[Dylan Dittrich @DylanDittrich]

Incredibly excited to be joining @YahooSports, where I'll be writing a new sports business newsletter.

Off-field business dynamics have never had a greater impact on the on-field product.

Can't wait to help fans make sense of it all as part of Yahoo's new sports business hub.

[Jim Lanzone @jlanzone]

Thanks Ben, not just for the partnership but for the fantastic summary of the history of @YahooSports and what makes it special, along with @YahooFinance and the rest of @Yahoo. Some great people (and current fantasy football partners) mentioned below who helped build some iconic products over the years even as the corporate entity bounced around.

[Ben Koo @bkoo]

Today, @awfulannouncing was announced as a new content partner of Yahoo Sports. This is a major milestone for the team at AA, and we cannot thank @ryanspoon and the @YahooSports team enough.

This means a lot to me personally, given my long-standing relationship with Yahoo and Yahoo Sports.

Yahoo was my first email address (still in use!). It was my first fantasy sports league as well.

The history of Yahoo Sports is, in my opinion, often overlooked. We think of them as a major entity now, but that’s not always been the case. Yahoo Sports, in particular, has always been an innovator and an underdog, punching above its weight among larger media companies that are reinforced with major sports television rights and studio programming. Some of the highlights…

- Before fantasy sports became a mainstream phenomenon, Yahoo proactively acquired a few fledgling online fantasy sports startups, whose technology catapulted them to some of the largest market shares in the industry.

-Yahoo also made what was, at the time, one of the largest acquisitions in digital sports media when it acquired Rivals. Doing so saw them leap ahead of ESPN in the Comscore digital audience rankings, a point of pride for Yahoo and one of frustration for ESPN, and one that took nearly a decade for ESPN to flip back.

-As more eyeballs shifted to mobile, Yahoo made the shrewd acquisition of Citizen Sports, giving it a larger foothold in mobile, as Citizen Sports' technology became the popular Yahoo Sports app (which is still my preferred scores app today).

-In terms of people, the sports group had a knack for bringing in up-and-coming digital media executives, many of whom have gone on to more prominent roles within the company or elsewhere. Included in that group are Brian Grey, who would go on to become Bleacher Report’s CEO; Jamie Mottram, who would later launch For The Win; Jimmy Pitaro, now the President of ESPN, Shannon Terry, who went on to start 24/7 Sports and On3, Mike Kerns, who was the first major investor in Barstool Sports; as well as highly regarded executives like Dave Morgan, Eric Winter, Mark Pesavento, and others who are probably shaking their heads I didn’t include them!

- But what really connected with people was the content. Yahoo had a really well-executed two-prong strategy of fun, smart, and conversational blog content that sat alongside outstanding original reporting and commentary.

The Y! Sports Blogs is, to this day, the best corporate integration of sports blogging. The sport-specific blogs had an incredible roster, consistent content, and signaled the cultural apex of sports blogging. The real sports blog OGs can probably still name five of these defunct properties (feel free to comment if you can!)

But old-school journalism and commentary were also key tenets, with the likes of Dan Wetzel, Charles Robinson, and Jeff Passan doing original reporting and commentary. Meanwhile, Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania popularized the concept of newsbreaking and played a pivotal role in increasing interest in the NBA beyond just the games. In terms of investigative written journalism, Yahoo Sports was right there with Sports Illustrated and ESPN, an incredible feat for a company that didn’t have any sports reporters not that long before. The Reggie Bush and Miami booster scandal still rings out as some of the better scoops of that era.

- It was Yahoo who made sports media history when they became the first company to exclusively stream a NFL game back in 2015.

Some of these milestones can be forgotten, especially given that the company went through a period of turmoil, mainly due to having four different CEOs in under one year, many of whom differed on whether Yahoo was a technology or media company. Verizon’s ownership helped in some areas, but some of the bold moves and risk-taking that the company was known for seemed to fall by the wayside.

With new and stable ownership (Apollo Global Management) and leadership (Jim Lanzone) since 2021, the company, and Yahoo Sports in particular, has had a renaissance, reclaiming its former glory and, more importantly, its pesky underdog risk-taking roots.

Ryan Spoon, who joined in 2022, spearheaded several initiatives, including a vertical-specific partnership approach with Ariel Halwani, The Athletic, and On3, a streaming partnership with F1, and the launch of popular new video and newsletter products like Yahoo Sports AM and Yahoo Sports Daily. It’s not hard to see that Yahoo has a growing appetite for making big bets in the digital sports category, something other large companies have been leaning away from due to rising TV rights fees and cord-cutting, squeezing budgets across many competitors. Yesterday, Jarrod Schwarz was named the new head of Yahoo Sports. I’m sure he’ll continue the great work Ryan and the rest of the team have done and I look forward to working with him.

I’ve been working in this industry for nearly 20 years. Partnering with Yahoo has always been a goal. I couldn’t be more excited about this opportunity for Awful Announcing, given the company’s rich history and bright future.

https://t.co/3dRiqsvbQS

[Axios @axios]

🎙️Line-up drop: Axios AI+ Summit is coming to NYC on June 3.

We’re bringing together top leaders during @Techweek_ for a half-day of sharp conversations on what's next for AI.

Speakers include:
@Yahoo CEO @jlanzone
@glean CEO Arvind Jain
@IBM Chairman & CEO @ArvindKrishna
former Hinge CEO Justin McLeod
@aurelia_labs founder & CEO @ariel_ekblaw
NY State Assemblyman @AlexBores
ModRetro's @Casey
& more to come.

Request your invite: https://t.co/5bwaZUycaD