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| Yahoo! Launches Yahoo! Shine for Women  Yahoo! has announced the launch of Yahoo! Shine, a new website for women that aims to provide the information most relevant to their daily lives. The site offers nine categories ranging from Fashion & Beauty to Parenting, and will feature content from many of the most popular lifestyles publishers, including Condé Nast Publications and Hearst Corporation. Additionally, a new editorial team will develop original stories on a daily basis, and hand pick the best user blog posts to feature prominently on the site. Yahoo! Shine creates a single destination for the approximately 40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 who already come to Yahoo! each month, making Yahoo! a more relevant starting point for this audience.The new site will help create a better experience for women on Yahoo!, while providing Yahoo! advertisers with a single lifestyles destination to reach this coveted demographic. Yahoo! Shine brings together the resources of several existing Yahoo! sites, including Yahoo! Food and Yahoo! Astrology, and will incorporate content from Yahoo! Health. Bringing these resources together is an example of Yahoo! Media's focus on building larger category sites for mass audiences, rather than focusing on niche topics and smaller audiences. Lifestyles publishing veteran Brandon Holley serves as Yahoo! Shine's editor-in-chief, overseeing a team of seasoned editors who each bring a unique point-of-view to their topic. The editors join Yahoo! from many of the leading print and online lifestyles outlets, including Lucky magazine, The Wall Street Journal's Career Journal, and BluePrint magazine. Editors will program content in nine categories daily by featuring partner content, stories from a women's blog network, and developing original stories. Yahoo! Shine's nine categories are: Fashion & Beauty, Parenting, Food, At Home, Healthy Living, Entertainment & Culture, Work & Money, Astrology, Love and Relationships. Yahoo! Shine offers a blog platform for all users to share their thoughts and discoveries in a trusted environment. Editors will handpick entries from these blogs to feature alongside the partner and editorial content. Like Yahoo!'s other category-leading media properties, Yahoo! Shine has partnered with the top content providers in its category. Yahoo! Shine's partners will create original content and feature choice magazine content. Partners include: - Condé Nast Publications and CondéNet - Glamour, Self, Bon Appetit, Lucky, Allure, Domino, Cookie, Style.com, Epicurious.com; - Hearst Corporation - Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, Real Age, House Beautiful, Daily Green, Country Living; - Rodale, Inc. - Prevention, Women's Health, Men's Health, Best Life; - Time, Inc. - InStyle; - Eating Well Media - Eating Well. The female (age 25-54) audience, which Yahoo! has designated as "Chief Household Officers", is a highly sought-after demographic for advertisers. It is made up of heavy Internet users, who are frequently the household purchasing decision-makers. Yahoo! Shine creates an opportunity for advertisers to reach this audience in an environment that is relevant and meaningful to women, and several advertisers have signed up to participate at launch. Yahoo! believes the site will be especially attractive to advertisers in the consumer packaged goods, pharmaceuticals and retail categories, where combined online advertising spend is expected to exceed $1.8 billion in 2008, based on competitive spending analysis done by TNS Media Intelligence. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |