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 »
HuffPo Tells Judge: Tasini Blogged For Fame, Not Cash-Throw Out His Lawsuit
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Lawyers for The Huffington Post have moved to dismiss Jonathan Tasini’s novel lawsuit claiming that the popular internet newspaper actually… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Continued To Surge In Q1; Google Overtakes Yahoo In Display
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Following last year’s dramatic comeback in online ad spending, the industry was expecting things to cool down this year. So far, that hasn’t… Read more »
Huffington-ization Of AOL Continues With Daily Finance Reset
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AOL’s Daily Finance channel has been one of its most highly trafficked over the past few years, but as the integration with Huffington Post… Read more »
HuffPo Lawyers Can’t Get ‘Idea Stealing’ Lawsuit Thrown Out
The class-action lawsuit filed by Jonathan Tasini isn’t the only questionable legal claim that The Huffington Post is fighting off right now… Read more »
AOL’s Crandall Returns To Wenner Media As Head Of Digital Content
Bill Crandall is leaving his post as AOL’s VP of Branded Experiences to return to his previous company, Wenner Media, as head of digital con… Read more »
Yahoo Looks To Summer Blockbusters For Homepage Ad Boost
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) started rolling out homepage takeover ads this past weekend for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as t… Read more »
PopEater’s Warner Joins HollywoodLife
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Mail.com Media Corp.’s HollywoodLife has hired AOL’s Denise Warner as managing editor. At AOL (NYSE: AOL), Warner was one of the original em… Read more »
AOL’s Patch Targets Primary States For Expansion
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Patch, which has continued to grow rapidly in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year, is launching 33 hyperloca… Read more »
AOL HuffPo Media Group On Editorial Hiring Spree Following Layoffs
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After a raft of layoffs and departures that followed AOL’s $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post in February, Arianna Huffington i… Read more »
Bookish CEO: ‘Thrilled To Have A Dual Revenue Stream’
Technically, Bookish doesn’t have any revenue stream yet. The joint venture of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuste… Read more »
Hachette, Penguin, Simon & Schuster Team Up With AOL For Book Site: Bookish
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Three major publishers are behind the latest effort to boost print and digital book reading. Bookish, backed by Hachette Book Group, Penguin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-06-11
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» As If The Switch From AOL (NYSE: AOL) News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough (paidContent)
» The most interesting t… Read more »
As If The Switch From AOL News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough
*AOL* News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the y… Read more »
AOL’s Armstrong: Content Business Could Be Profitable In 2012
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong suggested Q1′s earnings proved that the company was back on track, mainly due to the first increase in yea… Read more »
AOL Display Revenue Grows For First Time Since 2007
AOL’s profits and total revenues were still negative in Q1, but at least CEO Tim Armstrong can say he made good on turning around display, a… Read more »
Hearst Adopts AOL ‘Large Format’ Ads
As AOL (NYSE: AOL) prepares for its Q1 earnings on Wednesday morning — and the expectation that it will have reduced declines in display ad… Read more »
AOL HuffPo Loses Jai Singh To Yahoo Media Network; Will Be Editor In Chief
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Jai Singh, whose hiring from CNET Networks helped The Huffington Post gain journalism credibility, is moving out. Next stop: Yahoo (NSDQ: YH… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-02-11
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» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D… Read more »
Patch Hires Brooklyn Hyperlocal Blogger Zagare To Ramp Up Engagement
AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal blogs, which has suggested that a number of initiatives are coming to increase community engagement with i… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-29-11
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» A Right Royal Opportunity: The Big Wedding In Digital Media (paidContent)
» The iPhone Location-Tracking Issue Won’… Read more »
AOL’s Patch Will Add Blog Posts From Community Members
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AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites is making its first major update since AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post last month, integr… Read more »
Corrected: AOL Moviefone’s iPad App Designed To Change Perception Of Site
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has been looking for new ways to change the perception of its Moviefone site from a ticket ordering service to something of… Read more »
Industry Moves: CNBC, AOL, RadiumOne Digital Sales Changes
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There are several moves in digital commercial sales positions…
– CNBC: The news channel is adding Yahoo’s advertising senior manager War… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 04-20-11: Groupon; News.me; Digital Chocolate/Appitalism
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Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Check-in service Whrrl to shut down as part of Groupon’s acquisition of Pelago; News.me… Read more »
paidContent Week In Review: Tasini Vs. HuffPo; Google Earnings; Flipboard
In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week:
» Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘Al… Read more »
Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘All Sorts Of Inside Information’
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There’s been plenty of discussion of Jonathan Tasini’s recent lawsuit against The Huffington Post and AOL (NYSE: AOL), much of it critical.… Read more »
AOL Realigns Ad Sales Along Specific Categories; Five New ‘Practice Heads’
As AOL’s dismal display revenues appears to have put the worst behind it, the company is refining its ad sales approach in the hopes of deve… Read more »
Post Huffington Post Deal, AOL’s Patch Will Become More ‘Social’
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New details about what AOL (NYSE: AOL) has in store for its Patch network of hyperlocal sites in the wake of its purchase of the Huffington… Read more »
Famed Freelancer Files Lawsuit Condemning HuffPo’s Use Of Free Bloggers
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Jonathan Tasini’s name will always have a place in the history of media law because of his role in one of the most famous digital-age media… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-12-11
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» NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) visits are off as much as 15 percent a day since the debut of its paywall. (paidContent)
» … Read more »
@ AADigital: Arianna: Paywalls Only Work For Special Content, ‘Weird Porn’
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Life is pretty good at AOL (NYSE: AOL) these days, including the use of three “resting rooms” that the newsroom has dubbed “NapQuest,” Arian… Read more »
Yahoo’s Local Strategy Takes Shape
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Yahoo’s efforts to improve the local content it shows users by hiring editors in major cities nationwide are coming together — albeit slowl… Read more »
Ex-HuffPo Revenue Chief Greg Coleman Joins Retargeter Criteo
Ad retargeter Criteo has hired Greg Coleman, the former president and chief revenue officer of The Huffington Post and EVP global sales for… Read more »
