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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by kafkaesq on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:44PM (#11122815)
"Vertical" as in a marketing channel for ads (disguised as a vaguely interesting website or publication).

In longer form: basically a codeword for "A once vaguely or perhaps genuinely interesting website / channel / magazine / whatever but which is now (through various nefarious means) in the possession of Megacorp X, which, in turn, couldn't begin to give a toss about the actual content (let alone the so-called "community" of once passionate viewers / readers), other than through the perception that they serve some marketing demographic Y, real or imagined, to whom, they would like to fancy, they can sell zillions and zillions of ads to."

Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by bduerst on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:23PM (#11123238)
Vertical is usually a classification, typically segmenting a cohort or population by industry. It's not limited to online marketing or ads.
Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by iscrewyou on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:33PM (#11123272)
First thing, for some reason, that came to mind was Google Reader. Not nearly the same thing but reading your response triggered my brain to think Google Reader.

:(

Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by weisser on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @08:26PM (#11122999)
> Megacorp X ... couldn't begin to give a toss about the actual content

If they did they probably wouldn't be in this position.

Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by GCA10 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @08:14PM (#11122938)
Nicely defined.