It's always an obsession, so here's what Rebecca Paoletti, Director of Video Strategy at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), said about ad pricing: "Right now there are some economic issues we're looking at a lot of flat budgets." For video specifically, expect CPMs to be flat, before declining in 2009 . Paoletti, who spoke at the BMO eMerging Media Forum, came to Yahoo in 2007 from Maven Networks, which was, ...

It's always an obsession, so here's what Rebecca Paoletti, Director of Video Strategy at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), said about ad pricing: "Right now there are some economic issues we're looking at a lot of flat budgets." For video specifically, expect CPMs to be flat, before declining in 2009 . Paoletti, who spoke at the BMO eMerging Media Forum, came to Yahoo in 2007 from Maven Networks, which was, ...

Yahoo said it has paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos.

Yahoo, scrambling to parry a takeover bid from Microsoft, has purchased the broadband video start-up Maven Networks for $160 million, in the biggest acquisition yet of an Internet video toolmaker.