Yahoo! Sport
Last modified on December 12, 2011 |
Wallpaper | 1280px wide optimised for both 1280 and 1024 screen resolution widths, 40KB JPG or GIF, hex code for background colour |
| Sponsorship Strip | 954×60, 40KB SWF, Flash 9 AS3 or below, 25fps or below, 40KB JPG or GIF, animate up to 15 seconds | |
| 300×250 | 300×250, 40KB SWF, Flash 9 AS3 or below, 25fps or below, 40KB JPG or GIF | |
| Border | Required on all sides of the 300×250 unit if its colour tone does not contrast well with page background | |
| Available pages | Yahoo! Sport home page and Yahoo! Sport category home pages | |
| ExSpondo module | Available, specs below | |
| Flash help | Find useful information like how to build a button in Technical Guidelines | |
| Third party serving | The wallpaper has to be served via Yahoo! Rich Media technology | |
| Third party tracking | Click commands and one 1×1 pixel per takeover | |
| Turnaround time | 5 working days | |
| Guidelines | All ads must follow these Yahoo! guidelines |
Detailed Wallpaper Specifications
- One single static image is used for the wallpaper. This image should be 1280px wide to accommodate nearly every screen size in common use. This does not mean that all browsers will show all of the wallpaper content, as some users have smaller screens and browsers – please take into account that the width of the Sports category home pages is 974 pixels
- Right and Left Gutter Width = 137px fading to solid colour to 153px width
- The space between the gutters should be 974px
- Total file size: 40k
- Background colour must be thematically consistent with takeover content
- You should fade the edges of the wallpaper to a solid colour that can be repeated to the background. Please provide us with this hex colour so that it can be applied to the rest of the page background and which will be seen by users with wider screens
- The centre of the wallpaper image will appear behind the page content and therefore it will not be shown. This means that you can leave it blank, which will considerably help keeping the weight of the creative low
- The wallpaper will be aligned by the browser to its centre therefore it is subject to pixel rounding issues. As a consequence of this a thin line might appear between the page content and the blank area at the centre of the wallpaper. In order to avoid this we suggest building the gutter with an additional 3 to 5 pixels in width, with the excess moved towards the centre – i.e. the space between the gutters will be reduced by 3 to 5 pixels each side
- The gutters do not scroll with the page; they will remain fixed and will always be in the users’ view area. Because of this it is important to put the main features of the wallpaper at a height that can be seen by most users’ screens
- Vertical tiling is allowed
- In some cases a single tiling image can be used
- No text allowed. With the exception of logos and necessary legal text, all text, slogans and calls to action must live in the banner 300×250 and masthead units.
300×250 Specifications
- 300×250 base unit FLA, SWF (40KB) and back up image (40KB). Detailed landing spot specs can be found here
- Please also include fonts that we may need for publishing the FLAs
- Expandable and Floating formats are also available with this unit for a takeover
Sponsorship Strip Specifications
- 954×60
- 40KB SWF, Flash 9 AS3 or below, 25fps or below
- 40KB JPG or GIF back up image
- Can animate up to 15 seconds and no looping
Optional
The colour of the main navigation of the page and the headline news headers can be changed according to the following colour palette. The required hex code should be provided – see screenshots below.
Hex code should also be provided for the page background. Please note that the centre of the page content will not change.
Optional ExSpondo Module
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Example
ExSpondo (Expandable Sponsorship Strip) is an add-on available for a wallpaper takeover. Upon user click, the Sponsorship Strip of the takeover can expand to 300px in height and push the page content down to further engage the user with even more rich media content such as videos, games, forms and much more.
- 954×300
- Flash 9 AS 2 or below
- Up to 2 30 second videos allowed. Videos should weigh up to a maximum of 2.2meg. Yahoo! can provide the video player which will contain a replay button, play/pause buttons and sound on/off buttons. Anything over and above the above number or weight of the videos has to be discussed on a case by case basis. Please contact your account manager.
- Sound after the click initiation of the exspondo can start straightaway with the video. The video player should include a sound on/off button, a video play/pause button and a replay button. These buttons can be provided by Yahoo!
- Up to two flash animations can be included in the exSpondo area and will be loaded on click. Such flash animation should not weigh more than 40kb each and might include for example an area with links to downloadable files, a game, etc
- Upon click initiation of areas of the exSpondo, either on its expanded or unexpanded state, an additional wallpaper can be launched that will replace the first one
- Please provide FLA and fonts for all assets as well in order to be able to add custom code
- Third party serving is available for this module only: Eyeblaster, Doubleclick
Where can this run?
Yahoo! Properties
Flickr- my Yahoo!
- omg!
- Tablet Homepage
- Yahoo! Answers
- Yahoo! Cars
- Yahoo! Finance
- Yahoo! Front Page
- Yahoo! Games
- Yahoo! Groups
- Yahoo! Horoscopes
- Yahoo! Lifestyle
- Yahoo! Local
- Yahoo! Login
- Yahoo! Mail
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Yahoo! Mobile
- Yahoo! Movies
- Yahoo! Music
- Yahoo! News
- Yahoo! Shopping / Nextag
Yahoo! Sports / Eurosport- Yahoo! Travel
- Yahoo! TV
- Yahoo! Video
- Yahoo! Weather
- Yahoo! Web Messenger
Partner Sites
- AOL DE Email
- AOL DE Front Pages
- AOL DE Network
- AOL FR Email
- AOL FR Front Pages
- AOL FR Network
- ComingSoon
- Dailymotion
- laposte.net
- Last.fm
- musicMe
- Netlog
- Promiflash
- Softonic
- Sport24
- tiempo.com
- VEVO
- ViaMichelin.de
Other
- Direct Response (Top 250)
- Run of Yahoo! Network
