Brightcove will waltz into IBC 2023 with a spring in its step after landing an expansive deployment deal with Yahoo. 2023 Yahoo is a shell of the Yahoo of years gone by. Regurgitated in mid-2021 from the belly of Verizon and reincarnated under private equity ownership, new Yahoo is positioned as a streamlined media outfit with polished ad tech properties poised to scale emerging opportunities in the ad-supported streaming space. A dinosaur on the surface, perhaps, but the importance of a globally recognized brand name cannot be overstated, as highlighted by a certain recent social media rebranding. Yet the reality is that the creation of a more streamlined Yahoo has only been made possible through streamlining in the real sense…