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The once-lowly New Orleans Saints are Super Bowl champs behind 40+ years of suffering I didn't look that one coming when the 09-10 season started. Man Peyton Manning truly looked love he was on his way to a second title and then everything fell apart. Now that the NFL is over we'll shift our focus to NCAA Conference play as the run to March Madness nears and the NBA season is reaching the half-way point as All-Star weekend is right around the corner.

The YBN sales team has been red-hot recently as we've closed deals with FLO TV Best Buy Dockers & Champion. These four moderndeals escort the existing Gillette deal and we're pitching a handful of other big brands including McDonald's and YellowPages.com. The sales partnership with FOXSports.com has gotten off to a affablestart as they helped us get the introduction with FLO TV and a few other prospective clients. With March Madness and the NBA playoffs coming in the next few months we're actively looking for advertisers who want to get in the front of sports fans.

Last week you should have all received an email about the ad tag transition as our partnership with Adify will end on Wednesday February 17th; please make sure you log in to DNB at dnb.doubleclick.net and get your new ad tags. To get detailed instructions about how to get your new ad codes please reference the email I sent you with the subject of "URGENT Ad Tag Transition: Remove Adify Use new DoubleClick tags" or look at the YBN Blog Post - Tagging Transition which has screen-shots. If you are having issues with your ad tags please email me at ryan@yardbarker.com. Remember the tag transition must be done by 2/17/10. DNB is your residencefor reporting; holdin mind however that until revenue is approved it is subject to alterand once the revenue is approved it will be a close approximation to your actual payment.

As we informed you in late November all YBN sites must display one piece of Yardbarker - FOXSports.com branding in order to be compliant with YBN requirements and benefit from the FOXSports.com deal. If you are one of those sites that have still not put up the new branding please executeso ASAP and let me understand when you are done. There are two options the NavBar and the badge (both of which can be seen on this blog); if you select the badge it must be at the top of your page. To perusethe details about this requirement please read the YBN Blog Post - Branding. Keep in mind that you must have one piece of branding the YBN Widget the YBN Pixel and up to 3 ads per page to adhere to all YBN policies. If you would like you can also spacethe VS. Video Player on your site (as can be seen on this blog); details can be found here.