There’s no way for us to really know why YPN is still in private beta 2 years after its initial launch. You would think that after 2 years YPN would have made at least some progress out of private beta and be a few steps closer to the public launch. However, that’s still not the case. Our guess is that YPN’s 2 year beta status could be due to Yahoo’s lack of attention to the service. Does Yahoo not get how important and profitable their content network is, or should I say, could potentially be? Yahoo has had their head up their ass focused on Panama for the past year and seems to have almost completely abandoned their YPN service, and its publishers, by only offering minimal updates to the service’s features here and there over the past 2 years.

Is Yahoo embarrassed by YPN thus far? Are they planning a major overhaul like they did with Panama? Because that would be a huge waste of time in our opinion. Do people even work for YPN anymore? We really started to wonder when YPN went down for almost 48 hours this summer, leaving publishers in the dark. Since YPN is still in beta, it gives Yahoo an excuse when things go wrong and publishers start to lose money. Blame it on the beta.