Yahoo and Adobe Team Up to Put Online Ads in PDFs

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Yahoo and Adobe will partner to allow publishers to run dynamically generated ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising.

Until now, publishers have been able to embed only static ads on PDF files, but Yahoo and Adobe are developing a system to make those documents display contextually relevant ads delivered on the fly from Yahoo's inventory at any given time.

The inclusion of pay-per-click text ads on PDF (Portable Document Format) files will give publishers another revenue-generating option for the content they have in this popular Adobe document format

The benefit for advertisers: They get a new channel for their ads.

The service is free for publishers, who don't need to buy or install any software for it. At this time, only U.S.-based publishers whose sites are in English can participate in the program.

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