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Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Yahoo!

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mail tagline advertisements

Yahoo! Mail

Once upon a time, signing up for a free email account meant bombarding everyone you ever sent a message to with in-message advertisements. But those days are long gone. Or at least a few days gone. Yahoo! has removed the tagline advertisements that had been automatically appended to any message sent from a free email account.

We haven't done an extensive survey of free webmail providers, but we believe this means you can send ad-free messages with Yahoo! Mail and Gmail, while AOL and Windows Live Hotmail still tacks a message to the bottom of each email. If you know of any other ad-free, or ad-saturated services, let us know in the comments.

[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Internet, Video, Google

YouTube tries video ads

YouTubeYoutube's music video free-for-all may soon come to a close, but not in the way many once feared. Google announced it is experimenting with video advertisements tied to the music videos from Sony and Warner Music Group as part of a four week trial in preparation for a wider roll-out.

According to the Reuters article, the ads will be targeted specifically at embedded content displayed on other sites. In a departure from Google's Adsense, the advertisements are pay-per-view (CPM) rather than pay-per-click(CPC). Interesting to note that revenue will be split three ways under the new system. Labels, YouTube and the syndicating website will all get a cut although details are unavailable surrounding the exact amounts.

I've been unable to find an example of the new ads in the wild, have any of our eagle-eyed readers seen the new system at work?

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