Yahoo! starts working with freelancers

Yahoo! today announced that she is opening her site for third-party copywriters, photographers, video designers and other freelancers. To work with all specialists “from outside”, the newly launched service “Yahoo! Contributor Network. "

According to the management of the corporation, it is “Yahoo! Contributor Network ”will help the company's portal to become even more popular, including such subsections (and so popular), like Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! homepage The corporation describes a new content network as an evolved Associated Content service, a platform that employs more than 400,000 freelancers from the United States. The corporation bought this platform in May for $ 100 million.
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Executive Director Carol Bartz reported that Yahoo! changed the service to the best side so that everyone can be heard. According to the authors of this project, Yahoo! The Contributor Network, firstly, will make the portal itself more interesting, and secondly, it will help freelancers to express their opinions, which every visitor will be able to hear.

In principle, a really interesting idea, which is something in between a regular portal, filled with permanent employees of the company, and a portal with “user generated” content. In some cases, the last kind of services is more popular than even the very advanced first - everyone is interested in reading the opinions of their own kind than the opinion of an inaccessible journalist who works on a permanent basis.

Vice President Yahoo! Luke Beatty claims that the company has increased the scale of such a famous service as Associated Content, which was known as one of the largest in its field. Beatty also promised the editors of Yahoo! Freelancers will constantly select and publish material on all online media owned by the company. In addition to this project, over the past few months, the company began to cooperate with some very famous feather sharks, hoping to increase the amount of good materials on its portal.

Via yahoo