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Yahoo shakes up ad sales team

Looks like a bit of a re-org going on here after the ouster of the current CEO.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Yahoo Inc. said Sunday the Internet media company was merging the two main parts of its U.S. advertising business under one sales executive, David Karnstedt, and that veteran advertising sales executive Wenda Harris-Millard has left the company.

Recently elevated Yahoo (Charts, Fortune 500) President Susan Decker said in a phone interview that the consolidation of Yahoo’s two advertising arms — display and Web search advertising — reflects growing demand by customers for campaigns that combine both types of ads, with newer types of video advertisements.

[Read: Yahoo shakes up ad sales team - Jun. 24, 2007]

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