What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like?
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Many folks, including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings, suggest AOL (NYSE: AOL) should drop its declining ISP business. In fact, it al… Read more »
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: ‘I Messed Up’
I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation.
It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect… Read more »
Netflix DVD-Streaming Split Extends To Brand: Meet ‘Qwikster’
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings thought separating his company’s DVD and streaming business would be straightforward. Turns out it was a lot like… Read more »
AOL’s Levick Is Spotify’s New Chief Advertising Officer
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has s… Read more »
@ pcAds: Levinsohn: AOL Merger Is Not Part Of Our Discussion At Yahoo
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Between having its CEO unceremoniously ousted by the board and current talk of a major ad alliance with AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Microsoft (NSDQ:… Read more »
AOL, Microsoft And Yahoo Seeking To Form Ad Alliance
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Given the way Facebook and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have been taking an ever larger share of display ad spending, it looks as if AOL (NYSE: AOL),… Read more »
Arrington’s Long Goodbye Finally Over; Schonfeld New TechCrunch Editor
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Last year, Tim Armstrong joined Mike Arrington on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to sign the deal that made TechCrunch part of AOL (NYSE: AOL).… Read more »
Huffington Post Starts Publishing E-Books
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The AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huffington Post Media Group is the latest news organization to become an e-book publisher. The site will release two tit… Read more »
Macquarie: AOL’s Homepage Ad Pace Appears ‘Sluggish,’ As YouTube Surges
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) may be having a tough time attracting marketers to its vaunted Project Devil ads, which promise a larger canvas and greater… Read more »
TechCrunch’s Arrington Steps Down To Start CrunchFund
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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington may be raising a $20 million venture capital fund focused on early-stage technology companies, reported, citi… Read more »
Industry Moves: FT Video, Vevo Chiefs, HuffPo Blogs Editor, Deezer UK Boss
– FT Video: Financial Times’ head of video, Richard Edgar, has left to join ITV (LSE: ITV) News’ new business team, alongside new business… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-26-11
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» Slate Lays Off Staff. Does Its Model Still Make Sense? (Forbes Mixed Media)
» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Huddles With Top M&A… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-11-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock (paidContent)
» News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact,… Read more »
AOL Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) appears to be aiming to sweeten alarmed investors by repurchasing $250 million of its outstanding common stock.
The surpris… Read more »
Industry Moves: Everything Everywhere; Stoke; Mobile Posse; Zipline Games
– Everything Everywhere: Mark Horrobin is the director of transformation for Everything Everywhere, the merged JV between T-Mobile and Oran… Read more »
Some Bright Spots For AOL, Yes, But Also More Gloom Ahead
AOL (NYSE: AOL) offered some positive signs in its earnings release this morning — total advertising dollars rose for the first time since… Read more »
AOL’s Display Turnaround Continues, Net Loss Slims
AOL’s display advertising turnaround appears to be taking shape, as Q2 numbers showed that segment up 14 percent globally. Meanwhile, the U.… Read more »
AOL HuffPo Hires Christina Norman To Lead Video, Black Voices
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) is following last week’s stunning ouster of ad chief Jeff Levick with something that has become as routine as personnel shak… Read more »
AOL Closing Music And Sport Sites In UK
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AOL’s post-HuffPost content restructuring is coming to Europe. It is closing its main music and sports sites in the UK – AOL Music and FanHo… Read more »
Investors Cold To Latest AOL Re-Shuffle
How long before investors lose patience with AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong? The former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ad executive assumed control… Read more »
AOL’s Global Ad Sales Head Levick Out In Latest Reorg
Just ahead of this week’s AOL (NYSE: AOL) Q2 earnings, CEO Tim Armstrong has shed another batch of executives, most notably global ad sales… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-19-11
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» Murdochs Have A Lot Riding On Tuesday’s Command Performance (paidContent)
» Bye Bye, Borders: Chain Shuttering All… Read more »
Google Earnings Preview: All Eyes On Mobile, Social, Local (and Larry)
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Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the compan… Read more »
The Aggravation Of ‘Over-Aggregation’: HuffPo Suspends Writer
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If you can’t manage the art of aggregation, stick to the science. Aggregation has been part of our coverage mix at paidContent from the begi… Read more »
Yahoo, AOL Homepage Ad Gains Appear To Stall, As YouTube Diversifies
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Although display advertising growth is as strong as ever, efforts to draw more advertisers to lucrative homepage ads fell flat in Q2 compare… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-06-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music suspects pranksters hit Irish website (Reuters)
» Does Turnover Signal Tumult at The Huffin… Read more »
Update: HuffPo UK ‘We’re The Only Independent Digital Destination For News’
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Today, Arianna Huffington’s online news phenomenon The Huffington Post is making its European debut, with the launch of Huffington Post UK,… Read more »
Univision Promotes Randy Falco To CEO
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Univision COO Randy Falco is now the Spanish-language network’s CEO, succeeding Joe Uva in the role. Uva, a veteran media buyer, stepped dow… Read more »
Armstrong: Moving 53 Brands Into 20 Provides Better Focus
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AOL’s move to funnel its 53 sites into 20 “super brands” (listed below) is meant to offer a streamlined, more coherent set of content brands… Read more »
In Latest AOL Shakeup, Brod To Focus On Patch With Mapquest Thrown In; Memo
A few months after being named COO of the Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL), Jon Brod’s responsibilities are being narrowed to focus o… Read more »
Updated: HuffPo’s UK Edition Launches July 6, 10 More Editions Planned
Second on Huffington Post’s international expansion list, after its recent Canadian launch, will be a new UK site, now scheduled for launch… Read more »
AOL Goes To Cannes — And Brings An ‘Agency-Only’ App With It
A day after AOL (NYSE: AOL) held a gala presentation for analysts in New York’s Soho, execs are now descending on France for the week-long C… Read more »
Armstrong: ‘Certain’ Patch Outlets Will Be Profitable By End Of This Year
During a Q&A break from the presentations at AOL’s Analyst Day, CEO Tim Armstrong and several other executives took a range of questions abo… Read more »
Armstrong @ AOL Analyst Day: Critics Of HuffPo Deal Just Don’t Understand
A month after AOL (NYSE: AOL) posted its first growth in display revenue after a more than three-year drought, the company is hosting an “an… Read more »
Google And Admeld: Pressure Is On Display Competitors — And Publishers
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Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google’s latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-10-11
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» Huffpo Tops NY Times in Traffic, But With a Huge Asterisk (Mixed Media)
» A Federal Study Finds That Local Reportin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-08-11
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» The $315 million merger between AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Huffington Post has brought a lot of negative scrutiny since the deal was s… Read more »
OpenX Raises $20 Million For ‘Enterprise’ Platform; AOL Among Backers
Display ad tech firm OpenX has raised a $20 million fourth round funding as it seeks to expand its ad exchange marketplace into an “an enter… Read more »
