Yahoo! Shopping launching a bidded marketplace

Yahoo! Product Submit advertisers received the following email today:

Important
Notification: Upcoming Changes to Product Submit

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Dear Product Submit
advertiser,

We are pleased to
announce the upcoming launch of a bidded marketplace. With this change, there
will be modifications to your Master Terms & Conditions and Program Terms,
which will be detailed in a future email notice that you’ll receive in the next
30 days.

We expect the bidded marketplace to have an impact on your
day-to-day business. Therefore, we advise you and your team to begin planning
for the transition to a bidded model.

As part of this
launch, we are expanding the number of product categories and improving
reporting within your Product Submit account.

These changes are designed
to help you to:

• Better influence the
  level of traffic you receive from Yahoo! Shopping
  
• Gain more control
  over optimising your product listings
  
• Gain better
  visibility into your category performance

Stay
tuned!

The Yahoo Product
Submit team

Rollout is apparently in July, where feed bidding would be available as well as by category.  Rumor also is that logos will be able to be added by merchants for additional CPC soon.

written by Scott Hurff — scott.hurff at channeladvisor