In Mini-AOL Reunion, Verve Wireless Buys Deconstruct Media
Mobile ad network Verve Wireless has acquired Deconstruct Media, an ad tech firm focusing on mobile. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The… Read more »
Ahead Of Earnings, AOL Sells Content Recommendation Engine Surphace
As AOL (NYSE: AOL) prepares for its Q4 earnings report tomorrow morning, the company is attempting to show that in addition to its continued… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 02-01-11
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» Facebook’s ad rates were up in 2010, but click-throughs were actually down versus the year before. A Webtrends report looked at… Read more »
AOL Buys GoViral Video Network For Up To $96.7 Million
AOL (NYSE: AOL) says it is buying the GoViral video distribution network because it “supports our overall content strategy by creating anoth… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-27-11
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» What could have been… Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) priced its IPO on Wednesday and saw its stock rise 33 percent its first day. B… Read more »
AOL Partners With Supermodel Heidi Klum On Women’s Programming
While Ken Auletta’s New Yorker piece expressed skepticism about AOL’s content model — combining hyperlocal news and with big name entertain… Read more »
@ NATPE: David Eun Says AOL Video Reboot Driving Growth
The relaunch of AOL (NYSE: AOL) Video strategy is already getting results, according to David Eun, president of AOL Media and Studios, who c… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-24-11
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had an interesting weekend, which served to distract from last week’s news about CEO Steve Jobs taking an in… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-20-11
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» Although European streaming music service Spotify is still not ready to enter the U.S. market — it continues to make its state… Read more »
Ex-AOL CEO Randy Falco Lands At Univision As COO
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Nearly two years after being ousted as AOL’s chairman and CEO and replaced by Tim Armstrong, Randy Falco has a new job as EVP/COO of Spanish… Read more »
New Yorker’s Auletta: ‘Much Of What AOL Publishes Is Piffle’
In a scene from Casino Jack, when a partner complains about a negative story in Newsweek, Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff has that week’s Time… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.14.11
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» Rupert Murdoch’s long awaited “iPad newspaper” has a name — The Daily — and Poynter’s Damon Kiesow got a first look by checki… Read more »
Sporting News, Everyday Health Bet On AOL For Big Traffic Boost
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Two of AOL’s new content partners, The Sporting News and Everyday Health, are both counting on the portal to deliver major traffic numbers i… Read more »
AOL Outsources Sports; Fanhouse Brand Absorbed Into Sporting News
AOL (NYSE: AOL) organized a hasty after-market call to announce three content deals designed to buttress its push towards premium content. T… Read more »
TargetSpot Raises $8 Million To Expand Its Digital Audio Ad Network
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CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio-backed TargetSpot, which bills itself as the biggest digital audio ad network, has raised $8 million in its latest rou… Read more »
AOL Consolidates Content; Lemondrop Dissolves, No More Asylum
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is rearranging one of the vestiges of its early content strategy and is now focused on creating virtual “towns” to hold its… Read more »
Macquarie: Larger Homepage Ads Gained Momentum In Q4
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If it felt like there were a lot more of those large, homepage takeover display ads in the latter half of Q4, that’s because major sites lik… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.03.11
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» Publishers are very hopeful about the launch of a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “digital newsstand.” In recent weeks, Google has told pub… Read more »
Paul Allen Refiles Lawsuit, Says He Patented ‘Related Links’
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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen has refiled his patent lawsuit against 11 big internet companies and e-retailers, and the new c… Read more »
AOL Buys Social Profile Startup About.me
Continuing with its strategy of making a series of small-scale acquisitons, AOL (NYSE: AOL) has bought up About.me, a startup that lets user… Read more »
AOL’s Levick: We Bought Pictela For Its Philosophy, As Well As Its Tools
AOL (NYSE: AOL) and rich media startup Pictela had been working together on large, in-content ads since June, but the decision to buy the co… Read more »
AOL Acquires Display Ad Tool Pictela; Project Devil Gets Full Roll Out
After making several content buys the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is approaching the end of the year with an acquisition for the advert… Read more »
Townsquare Media’s Wilson Adds Former AOL Colleagues
Two months after joining local media network Townsquare Media, ex-AOL (NYSE: AOL) content head Bill Wilson has brought along several former… Read more »
Is One Of Patch’s Most-Popular Sites Breaking Even Yet? Here’s Our Math
AOL (NYSE: AOL) launched its 500th Patch site this week and says it has “exceeded every sales goal we’ve set for ourselves.” But the company… Read more »
AOL Lays Off Three After AIM-Thing Labs Shakeup
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has let go three staffers from its AIM team, as the company works to integrate Thing Labs and its Brizzly social media reade… Read more »
Bebo Co-Founder Invests In The New Bebo
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Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, who made a fortune from the sale of the social network to AOL (NYSE: AOL) two and a half years ago, is once a… Read more »
Yahoo Overhauls Its Local Pages; Downplays Business Reviews
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is overhauling the look and much of the content of its local pages. The “new Yahoo Local,” which is beginning to roll out… Read more »
Patch Gets Its 500th Site — And Demolishes A Paywall?
AOL’s hyperlocal network Patch has launched its 500th site this morning, fulfilling CEO Tim Armstrong’s August pledge. In other Patch news,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.06.10
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking at a major restructuring that could include the jettisoning of its revenue-generating dial-up busine… Read more »
AOL Tries To Beef Up E-Mail With Unblab Acquisition
AOL’s latest acquisition is designed to help build out an area that was mostly neglected for years: it’s e-mail service. The company has bou… Read more »
AOL Calls Media Director Shing To Be Its ‘Digital Prophet’
AOL’s European team is going through still more executive changes. David Shing, who was picked this February to run both Media and Marketing… Read more »
AOL Names Yodle’s DeLuca To Head Local Ad Sales
As AOL (NYSE: AOL) continues to build out its local presence with Patch and other features, the company is bringing in former Yahoo (NSDQ: Y… Read more »
Homepage Ads: Bigger Might Actually Be Better; MSN Lags Portal Rivals
For the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) have turned to huge takeover ads as a way to attract p… Read more »
Armstrong: The Old M&A Strategy Didn’t Make Sense; AOL Spent $9 Billion
AOL (NYSE: AOL) spent an astounding $9 billion in the last decade on an M&A strategy that didn’t make much sense, said CEO Tim Armstrong in… Read more »
News Corp. iPad Venture Fishing In Wrong Pond
Another day, another hire at News Corp.’s super-duper secret iPad venture dubbed The Daily–and another reason to question whether this is g… Read more »
AOL’s European Media Director Downing Has Left
The director of the AOL (NYSE: AOL) Media division in Europe, Julian Downing, has left the company, paidContent:UK has learned and confirmed… Read more »
Yahoo Music’s Bronikowski Jumps To AOL
With another wave of layoffs apparently about to hit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Jeff Bronikowski is leaving his post after just 8 months as the hea… Read more »
AOL Teams With Eisner’s Vuguru On Scripted Web Series
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With video more at the center of AOL’s content plans following its homepage makeover, the company is looking to outside partners to help att… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.09.10
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» Time (NYSE: TWX) spent online is rising, but publishers can’t keep up with the never ending supply of content — mostly from so… Read more »
AOL’s Interest In Yahoo Advances — A Bit
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The last we heard about Yahoo possibly being in play, there was talk that AOL (NYSE: AOL) might be interested. That interest apparently has… Read more »
