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Yieldbot Raises $4 Million to Help Sell Display Ads to Search Buyers

Ad tech start-up Yieldbot has raised a $4.2 million A round led by New Atlantic Ventures and RRE Ventures. The New York-based company helps publishers sell their display inventory to marketers who usually buy search ads from Google and Microsoft instead. Seed investors kbs+p Ventures, Common Angels and Neu Venture Capital also re-upped.


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The ultimate native ads are the glossy fashion ads in Vogue: in most cases, they’re better than the editorial, and as a result, readers spend as much time with the ads — if not more — as they do with the edit.

— Felix Salmon, writing about the potential of native advertising on the Web