Press Release
Yahooligans!, The No. 1 Web Guide For Kids, Adds New Features
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- News - Working with Reuters and national children's news weekly, Tomorrow's Morning, Yahooligans! now features the daily "News Beat", highlighting news stories about current events, relevant issues and life around the world - including stories written by kids for kids. The stories include photos, when available, and biographies of the reporters.
- Sports - The new Yahooligans! Sports Page combines the sports scores, team standings, player stats and news from Yahoo! Sports with the Sports Illustrated For Kids site providing fantasy sports leagues, shockwave games, comprehensive sports previews and kid-tailored sports news that is updated three times a week. The link to SI For Kids will also provide children with a look at the award-winning magazine's monthly features on superstar athletes.
- E-mail - Yahooligans! is working with CommTouch Software Inc. to offer ProntoMail/Family Edition - an e-mail software package with multimedia capabilities such as voice, video and greeting cards. The free software combines kids' content with e-mail capabilities and offers a choice of interfaces for both adults and children, along with multiple mailboxes on a single dial-up account, parental monitoring tools and easy-to-use multimedia features for sending mail with pictures, sound and animation.
- The Headbone Derby - Created by Headbone Interactive, the Derby is a year-round series of Internet research contests that teaches children how to find information online. Kids follow a lively comic strip story in seven episodes, solving puzzles by researching topics on the Web. Prizes include a computer, digital cameras, and Headbone software.
- Hypersite of the Week - Yahooligans! spotlights one cool Web site a week as chosen by Yahoo!'s team of Web experts. The Hypersite of the Week is also highlighted on the Aahs World RadioSM network of kids' radio stations. A script prepared by the Yahooligans! editorial staff for the Hypersite can be heard on Aahs World Radio at least four times a week throughout the country.
"Yahooligans! continues to be the best, kid-appropriate Internet guide for exploring the resources and activities available on the Web," said Rob McHugh, senior producer of Yahooligans!. "By working with leading providers of Web content and services for kids, we offer value-added programming and features to educate and entertain children - all within an environment that parents and teachers can feel comfortable about letting their kids explore."
Advertising Opportunities
Yahooligans!, the leading Web guide for kids, offers an
ideal platform for advertisers to reach a large targeted
audience. Current Yahooligans! advertisers include Disney,
IBM, The Gap and Kodak to name a few.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is an Internet media company that
offers a network of globally-branded properties, specialty
programming, and aggregated content distributed primarily on
the Web, serving business professionals and consumers. As
the first online navigational guide to the Web,
www.yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of
traffic, advertising, and household reach, and is one of the
most recognized brands associated with the Internet. Yahoo!
Inc. continues to develop a family of community services,
including Yahoo! Chat, Classifieds, and Yellow Pages, along
with targeted Internet guides for geographic audiences
(Yahoo! Japan, UK & Ireland, France, Germany, Canada,
Australia & New Zealand, Korea, San Francisco Bay Area,
Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Boston,
Austin, Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, Atlanta, Minneapolis/St.
Paul, Miami); shared-interest audiences (Yahoo! Internet
Life magazine and website, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! News,
Yahoo! Scoreboard and unfURLed, MTV/Yahoo!'s online music
guide); and demographic audiences (Yahooligans!, a Web guide
for kids; and Beatrice's Web Guide for women). Yahoo! Inc.
is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and can be found on
the Web at www.yahoo.com.
Beatrice's Web Guide is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc. and Wire Networks, Inc.
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