{"id":426,"date":"2013-02-04T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/?p=426"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:58:46","slug":"marissa-mayer-hates-yahoos-hold-music-so-90s-rapper-snow-made-her-the-best-hold-music-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/marissa-mayer-hates-yahoos-hold-music-so-90s-rapper-snow-made-her-the-best-hold-music-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Marissa Mayer Hates Yahoo&#8217;s Hold Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/post-yahoo-hold-music_250x246.jpg\" alt=\"Marissa Mayer\" title=\"Marissa Mayer\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-428\" \/>They say that the key to business success is to find a need and fill it. So when Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, complained that the company&#8217;s hold music was &#8220;garbage&#8221;, before the most recent earnings call, New York startup Jingle Punks sprang into action.<\/p>\n<p>It hired rapper Snow, best known for the nearly incomprehensible 1992 reggae-rap hit &#8220;Informer,&#8221; to record a new hold jingle for the Internet firm.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s kind of amazing. I&#8217;ve been humming it all day, which is more than I can say of pretty much any other hold music ever.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, it&#8217;s not likely Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) will actually use this song as their official hold music (although it would be awesome if they did). But it&#8217;s good marketing for Jingle Punks, which provides licensed stock music for television, radio, movies and Internet video, and specializes in hip-hop content like, well, hold jingles by one-hit wonder rappers from the early &#8217;90s<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed\">\n    \t\t\r\n\t\t<!-- Begin Video.js Responsive Wrapper -->\r\n\t\t<div style='max-width:664px'>\r\n\t\t\t<div class='video-wrapper' style='padding-bottom:56.325301204819%;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t<!-- Begin Video.js -->\r\n\t<video id=\"example_video_id_915334598\" class=\"video-js vjs-default-skin video-js vjs-dsnow-skin\" width=\"664\" height=\"374\" controls preload=\"none\" data-setup='{\"forceSSL\":\"true\",\"techOrder\":[\"youtube\"],\"src\":\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRmVDADlnOU\"}'>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/video>\r\n\t<!-- End Video.js -->\r\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<!-- End Video.js Responsive Wrapper -->\r\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that the key to business success is to find a need and fill it. So when Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, complained that the company&#8217;s hold music was &#8220;garbage&#8221;, before the most recent earnings call, New York startup Jingle Punks sprang into action. It hired rapper Snow, best known for the nearly incomprehensible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,159,158,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}