Terry Semel

Terry Semel
Terry Semelis an American corporate executive who was the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated from 2001 to 2007. Previously, he spent 24 years at Warner Bros., where he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer. He resigned as CEO due in part to pressure from shareholders' dissatisfaction over his compensationand performance...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth24 February 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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beginning belief embrace far fully proud
We're very proud of what we have accomplished so far but fully embrace the belief that we're still at the beginning of significant long-term opportunities.
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Yahoo and Seven have very complementary businesses and brands, and we see this as a tremendous opportunity to build a leadership position in Australia.
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Yahoo had another strong performance this quarter. Our overall advertising business saw solid growth and our user numbers continued to climb.
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We said we would shift our revenue mix and create additional revenue streams in fees, listings and transactions.
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We do expect to continue these strong results, and to that end we have upwardly revised our full-year outlook.
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I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.
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At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.
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Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.
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While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
attitude new-attitude fronts
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
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Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
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We've done that, and they now represent approximately 40 percent of our total revenue.
believe position
We believe we are in a position of strength,