SAN FRANCISCO: Marissa Mayer's plan to resuscitate Yahoo! seems a simple one: get back the eyeballs, sell more ads and charge higher prices. But the chief executive's plan seems to have run into a major snag.
The price the company charges per ad slid 12% in the April to June period, six times the decline just a quarter ago — a fall that some say highlights how Yahoo! has been caught unprepared for the industry shift to automated, programmatic ad buying.
