The Morning Lowdown 03-23-11
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) Folds 30 Brands, Including Politics Daily (Mixed Media)
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The Morning Lowdown 03-17-11
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» Viral Videos Catch On That Only Hint at a Sponsor’s Purpose
» Tablets For All! (And Especially Apple)
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The Morning Lowdown 03-16-11
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» After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup
» On the Media: Patch.com’s Newark plan smells of conf… Read more »
AOL-HuffPo Adds Twitter’s Biz, Montorio, Swallows Politics Daily
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AOL-Huffington Post Media Group continues to add web-world talent like a gargantuan magnet. Amongst several additions announced Monday…
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The Morning Lowdown 03-14-11
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» Engadget’s Top Editors Topolsky and Patel Exit From AOL’s Giant Tech Site
» Postscript: Aggregation Aggro
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pC2011 Video: Q&A With Arianna Huffington and Tim Armstrong
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What do Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington have in mind for the newest version of AOL? (NYSE: AOL) At our recent conference paidContent 2… Read more »
Interview: Armstrong On Layoffs: ‘News & Finance Was Losing $20 Million’
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong warned that layoffs would be coming last week, and today, the pink slips were released. Armstrong spoke ab… Read more »
No European Job Cuts For AOL This Time
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Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers.
AOL (NYSE: AOL) will make no job cuts in Europe, the company tells paidContent:UK, despi… Read more »
@ Media Summit: AOL’s Armstrong: Layoffs Today, Hiring Tomorrow
Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers.
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed… Read more »
Updated: AOL’s Post-HuffPo Layoff Round Begins; 700 Jobs Affected In India
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Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs — aka “job changes” — were coming following t… Read more »
It’s Official: AOL Now Owns The Huffington Post; Announces New Hires
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong said from the stage at paidContent 2011 that the company was within days of closing its $315 million deal… Read more »
AOL Buying Hyperlocal News Aggregator Outside.in; Will Align With Patch
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is about to announce it’s acquiring hyperlocal veteran Outside.In, paidContent has learned, confirming earlier reports from… Read more »
@ pC2011: AOL-HuffPo Merger Will Produce $20M In ‘Synergies’ – And Layoffs
The $315 million AOL/Huffington Post merger could close next week, said CEO Tim Armstrong, seated next to his new partner Arianna Huffington… Read more »
Updated: Ellis Jumps To Yahoo; AOL Re-Orgs
Updated: Mark Ellis is leaving AOL (NYSE: AOL) to join Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to run North American sales, paidContent has heard from multiple s… Read more »
IAB Attempts To Bring Some Order To Choice Of Large Display Formats
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s “rising stars” award isn’t meant as solely as a pat on the back to high profile members at its annual c… Read more »
10-K Watch: AOL Expects Further Declines In Q1
AOL (NYSE: AOL) warned investors that it expects ad revenues on both its own properties and third party networks to “decline significantly”… Read more »
Pre-HuffPo Merger Changes At AOL; Eun Leaving, Brod To Be Arianna’s COO
Regulatory approval of AOL’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post is still pending but CEO Tim Armstrong already has a new struct… Read more »
Tim Armstrong Joins Arianna Huffington For paidContent 2011, March 3, NYC
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Last week we announced Arianna Huffington as the closing act for a jam-packed paidContent 2011: The Next Decade in Digital, March 3, at TheT… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02-21-11
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» Mobile advertising’s come a long way, but it still has a number of obstacles in the way of truly explosive growth. [WSJ]
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The paidContent Week In Review
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In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this week, starting with our full coverage of how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL… Read more »
Is The Second Dotcom Bubble Underway? Ten Telltale Signs
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Two years ago, anthropologist Sekai Farai was awarded a grant by Columbia University to study the technology startup community. Her timing c… Read more »
Arianna Huffington Joins Us At paidContent 2011, March 3, NYC
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AOL’s $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post is still waiting for regulatory approval but Arianna Huffington is already in the thi… Read more »
Industry Moves: ITV, MyDaily, Specific, Playfish
– ITV (LSE: ITV) : The broadcaster is creating a multiplatform commissioning and digital content controller under online MD Robin Pembrooke… Read more »
72 Hours: Inside Arianna’s Mission To Change AOL
Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine’s Day transition meet… Read more »
Armstrong Puts Another $10 Million In AOL; Huffington Takes Stock
Tim Armstrong, already the largest individual shareholder in AOL (NYSE: AOL) as well as chairman and CEO, nearly doubled his stake in the co… Read more »
On Heels Of Surphace Purchase, Outbrain Raises $11 Million
Outbrain, which purchased content recommendation service Surphace from AOL (NYSE: AOL) two weeks ago, has now raised $11 million in a third… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.14.2011
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» Social gamer Zynga is looking to raise $250 million in new funding in a deal that could value the three-year-old start-up betwe… Read more »
Will A UK Content Site Ever Sell For As Much As The Huffington Post?
The cash handed over by AOL (NYSE: AOL) for the Huffington Post, and before that for the technology news site TechCrunch, has sent a frisson… Read more »
Video: Calacanis Finds Religion, Claims It’s Time For Quality Over Quantity
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Last month at DLD in Munich, in front of top execs from investor Burda, Jason Calacanis offered a fairly staid explanation for the decision… Read more »
Netflix Surges In Nielsen’s First Video Data In 7 Months
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Welcome back, Nielsen, which publicly issued late Friday its first set of online video metrics since June 2010 due to computer glitches that… Read more »
AOL-HuffPo: Arianna And The Free Blog Economy
Some of Huffington Post’s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) – either unhappy ab… Read more »
MSN’s Scott Moore Questions ‘Risky Bet’ AOL Made On HuffPo
AOL’s acquisition of Huffington Post makes for a “risky bet,” according to Scott Moore, partner and regional executive producer at Microsoft… Read more »
AOL’s Armstrong: ‘We’re Not In A Turnaround; We’re In A Comeback’
Sharing the stage with new underling Arianna Huffington at Federated Media’s Signal LA Conference, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong provide… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02.08.2011
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» One big question hanging over AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post is how its recently hired ad team will do without the ma… Read more »
AOL Selling ISP? Some Lessons From Europe
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As the prospect is raised of AOL (NYSE: AOL) selling its ageing U.S. ISP business to concentrate on being a publisher, it’s worth noting tha… Read more »
AOL-HuffPo: A Lot Of Scale — But Will Advertisers Care?
The surprise $315 million union of AOL (NYSE: AOL) and The Huffington Post offers some truly monumental scale, with the new Huffington Post… Read more »
Huffington Post: A History In Links
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) has bought the Huffington Post for $315 million, a move that will see Arianna Huffington be named president and editor in ch… Read more »
Steve Case On The AOL-HuffPo Math
AOL (NYSE: AOL) Founder Steve Case has a sense of humor and a PhD in merger math. Here’s his response to current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s rat… Read more »
Facebook Video Count Has Been Plummeting For Five Months
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Facebook is practically synonymous with explosive growth–with one notable exception. An examination of comScore’s U.S. online-video ranking… Read more »
AOL’s Display Struggles Continued In Q4; Brightcove Stake Sold
Over the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong has said that display revenues will turn around by mid-year, an implicit warning… Read more »
