AOL announced Marketplace, an effort to consolidate the stack of tools publishers use to serve ads. AOL is competing with Google in the ad tech field as it tries to diversify its revenues Read more at paidContent »
Back from near-death, AOL feels vindicated that it bet on a content strategy when everyone else was turning to platforms and technology. CEO Tim Armstrong shared some thoughts on content, hyper-local site Patch and whether AOL might buy Time’s magazines. Read more at paidContent »
Looking for the turnaround story of 2013? Stop looking at Yahoo — it’s AOL that’s the real deal. The company has quietly put in place a powerful strategy based on media, technology and advertising. And investors like what they see. Read more at paidContent »
AOL has been a basket case for years as it tried to figure out if was a tech or a content company. But today it announced earnings and a strategy that suggest it may finally have found a way forward. Read more at paidContent »
In a move to increase community and social networking and decrease reliance on paid editors and writers, Aol’s struggling hyperlocal site Patch is rolling out a redesign today in five Long Island towns. The redesign will spread to 50 more communities this year. Read more at paidContent »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Tim Armstrong continues to believe local news network Patch is not only viable, it is vital to Aol’s future. He promises a new data-driven product in development now will wow Patch watchers and users in the fall. Read more at paidContent »
Aol has been in turnaround mode for years — this time, it looks like the turns are in the right direction. Advertising up, revenue decline almost flat, subscription churn lowest in a decade, latest re-org underway. Read more at paidContent »
Now that Arianna Huffington is no longer in charge of the tech properties at AOL, what does the future hold for TechCrunch and Engadget? Not a sale, says CEO Tim Armstrong. Instead, he plans to invest in scaling the brands. Read more at paidContent »
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong promised improvements in U.S. display ad sales processes, after international growth embarrassed domestic declines. Read more at paidContent »
Arianna Huffington says everything is fine at AOL and she doesn’t mind having her power reduced, but she also admits that private-equity firms have raised the idea of a spin-off of Huffington Post. Could this be the beginning of the end for the faded former portal? Read more »
Does Arianna Huffington want to buy back the Huffington Post from AOL? Read more at paidContent »
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong insists the $1 billion patent deal with Microsoft is about profiting while simplifying the company, not the start of the last sell off. Read more at paidContent »
Just over a year after AOL acquired the Huffington Post, much of the integration between the two is being unwound, and control over key elements of the business are reverting to founder Arianna Huffington. Should AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong be watching his back? Read more »
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has hired a new Chief Content Officer in its latest attempt to reboot Patch, the network of hundreds of sites that offer “hy… Read more at paidContent »
On the back of its latest executive appointments — a new head of sales, and a new head of HR — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more re… Read more at paidContent »
Brad Garlinghouse, President of the Applications and Commerce Group and head of AOL’s Silicon Valley operations is leaving the beleaguered online service, AOL according to multiple sources. Garlinghouse is well known in Silicon Valley as the author of the Yahoo Peanut Butter Manifesto. Read more »
AOL has said it remains committed to rolling out its Patch.com network of a thousand hyperlocal news outlets across the U.S., but reports about cost-cutting efforts raise the question of how long the troubled former web giant can maintain that commitment to its money-losing hyperlocal project. Read more »
The idea that AOL might want to merge with Yahoo — as a news report on Friday said it does — isn’t surprising, since the company has tried to arrange a similar deal at least twice. The only question is which metaphor for failure should apply. Read more »
Carol Bartz may be gone, but there’s another CEO who has also spent two years trying — and failing — to turn around a former web giant: namely, AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong. How much longer does he have before he gets the chop as well? Read more »
After releasing its earnings for the latest quarter, AOL’s stock fell by as much as 30 percent at one point on Tuesday. Why? Because while it showed some revenue growth, the company said the turnaround investors have been waiting for is still a long way off. Read more »
AOL continues to pour money into its Patch.com “hyperlocal” news venture, and is also rolling out a Huffington Post-style aggregation effort called Local Voices aimed at pulling in local bloggers. But can any of this help AOL dig itself out of the financial hole it’s in? Read more »
AOL dropped a bombshell on the online media world late Sunday night with the news that it is acquiring popular blog network The Huffington Post for $315 million. Here’s a roundup of some of the other commentary on the announcement from the web and from Twitter. Read more »
AOL managed to beat analysts’ estimates for revenue and earnings for the latest quarter, thanks in part to some asset sales that boosted the bottom line. But the company’s advertising business continues to shrink rapidly, even as it’s spending hundreds of millions on acquisitions. Read more »
AOL is buying three companies — TechCrunch, 5Min, and Brizzly — for a rumored $100 million. AOL is trying to regain its preeminence in tech-land by focusing on building media brands and platforms that help other media, CEO TIm Armstrong tells us. Read more »
AOL said it has purchased the technology blogging site TechCrunch for an undisclosed amount, a story Om broke last night. While we don’t know yet how much AOL paid for the blog network founded by Michael Arrington, we’ll update this story as details emerge. Read more »
From the minute I heard that Time Warner bought Bebo for $850 million, I thought it was a bad idea which would hurt the company long term. At the very least, that money could now have been used to build a whole new AOL. Read more »
AOL is reportedly planning to expand its hyper-local journalism project, Patch.com, to hundreds of towns and cities over the next year. But can the Web giant fulfill CEO Tim Armstrong’s new-media vision when so many others have failed so completely in the past? Read more »
Now that AOL has been spun off from Time-Warner, it can write a new chapter for itself. If AOL does several key things right, it has a chance of being successful again. We look at some opportunities, along with the risks each one entails. Read more »
AOL will launch a new look and logo along with its official spinout from Time Warner on Dec. 10, as it tries to become a content-centric company. Wolff Olins, a global brand and innovation consultancy, worked on this new look and logo which seeks to replace […] Read more »
