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Comments to date: 34. This is page 1 of 2.  | Media Owners editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:40am on Friday, August 5, 2011 | AOL Launches 'Editions' iPad App
-- On August 2, 2011, AOL launched a new iPad app called 'Editions.' It's a free daily digital 'magazine' for iPad that offers a reading experience customized for each user.
Editions monitors your usage of the app and takes all of your actions into account, from opening an article to adding a new interest, to help learn what you do and don't like. The result is a service that is personalized for each user.
Every morning, an Editions user receives a download that is designed to look like a magazine, with a table of contents, stories, images, professional layouts, and page turning capability. The final page of each daily Edition features a daily horoscope.
"Our goal for Editions was to take the best of the online and offline reading experiences and fuse them into a single, sleek magazine unlike anything else that exists today," said David Temkin, Head of Mobile, AOL. "By combining custom features with technology that learns about you as you use it, Editions delivers a magazine every day that’s full of the things you care about most."
Users an edit each section of Editions to include favorite companies, teams, celebrities, and news sources. Also included are localized news and weather, local news sources, and the ability to save an article for later, or share it by email, Facebook or Twitter.
The Editions by AOL App is available for free from the App Store on iPad.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:12am on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | -- April 12, 2011 -- Nathan Coyle is now general manager at AOL's Cambio.com. He was previously business development agent at Creative Artists Agency.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:50am on Monday, April 4, 2011 | AOL Confirms Tim Stevens as New Engadget Editor in Chief
-- On April 4, 2011, the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital reported on the new hire:
"AOL has confirmed that Tim Stevens will replace Josh Topolsky as editor in chief of Engadget.
Stevens has been working at the large tech gadget news and reviews site since 2007, most recently as its automotive editor.
Unusually, he was a part-timer at Engadget until a few months ago and lives several hours north of New York City, where AOL has its HQ. The company said Stevens will commute as necessary."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:46am on Thursday, March 31, 2011 | Another Editor Leaves Engadget
-- On March 31, 2011, the New York Observer's Betabeat reported on the departure of editor Chris Ziegler, senior mobile editor. Two weeks earlier, it was reported that editor in chief Josh Topolsky and managing editor Nilay Patel had left Engagdget, a tech web site owned by America Online (AOL).
"Engadget, the East Coast half of AOL’s tech blogging empire, has seen a number of editorial exits in the past month. Add Chris Ziegler, senior mobile editor to the list. He penned his personal farewell blog post, a pre-requisite for departing the site, yesterday.
“I won’t pretend that I’ve been thrilled with every move Aol has made since I’ve been here — but once again, I’m not leaving because I’m being indoctrinated into “The Aol Way” or because I’ve been told what to write or how to think by some dark force above Josh [Topolsky], wrote Ziegler."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:45am on Monday, March 14, 2011 | Engadget’s Top Editors Exit
-- On March 12, 2011, The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital reported on the departures of editor in chief Josh Topolsky, and managing editor Nilay Patel. Engagdget, a tech web site, is owned by America Online (AOL).
"Sources said the move by Topolsky and Patel is not out of the tech news arena and both are considering several options.
Sources said the departures have been a long time in coming, related to a range of ongoing issues the veteran editors have had working for the large New York-based Internet company. Sources said it was not precipitated by AOL’s recent $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post.
In fact, AOL’s new content head Arianna Huffington had tried hard to persuade Topolsky to stay on, but that “he had already mentally made up his mind to go.”
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:29am on Thursday, March 10, 2011 | More Layoffs at AOL: India Unit Cuts Staff by 400, Transitions 300 More to Contractors
-- On March 9, 2011, The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog reported on the ongoing drainage of AOL's employee pool:
"Along with several hundred layoffs taking place in the U.S. tomorrow, AOL is also drastically cutting staff at its Indian unit right now, sources said.
According to sources, AOL India will lay off 400 employees in Bangalore, as well as transition 300 more to contractors working for partners.
That leaves about 200 staffers there, who will work on consumer-facing products for the Indian and Asian markets."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:02am on Thursday, March 10, 2011 | Gory Details from Tim Armstrong's Layoffs Memo
-- On March 10, 2011, Business Insider summarized portions of a memo from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong outlining the organization's "next critical step on the comeback trail":
"AOL is going to fire hundreds of people today following its merger with the Huffington Post.
We have the memo from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong.
Highlights:
* The severance package. "Affected employees will be notified today and AOL will offer assistance programs -- including workspace, counseling, and technology."
* AOL Media survives. After some debate, AOL will keep the AOL brand in media, which 99% of people recognize.
* "Towns" and "Mayors" are gone. "We are creating Department Editor positions for each of the editorial departments and their partners will be the General Managers (formerly our Mayors), who will continue to serve as CEOs, driving revenue, distribution and overall growth strategy for the departments they support.""
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:38am on Thursday, February 10, 2011 | Advertisers Weigh Politics of AOL/Huffington Post Deal
-- On February 10, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported:
"America Online (AOL) bought the Huffington Post in a bid to draw more readers and advertisers. But some Madison Avenue executives are expressing concerns about the liberal-leaning nature of the site and its potential to taint the broader AOL brand.
Others, meanwhile, say it's only the clicks and the audience that matter.
Arianna Huffington, the site's celebrity co-founder, will lead a new group inside AOL overseeing the 700-person editorial staff. Ms. Huffington, 60 years old, launched the Huffington Post in 2005 as an alternative to conservative websites and has become a voice for the political left."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:00am on Monday, February 7, 2011 | AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315M In Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor-In-Chief
-- On February 7, AOL announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Huffington Post:
"The transaction will create a premier global, national, local, and hyper-local content group for the digital age–leveraged across online, mobile, tablet, and video platforms. The combination of AOL’s infrastructure and scale with The Huffington Post’s pioneering approach to news and innovative community building among a broad and sophisticated audience will mark a seminal moment in the evolution of digital journalism and online engagement.
The new group will have a combined base of 117 million unique visitors a month in the United States and 270 million around the world. Following the close of this transaction, AOL will accelerate its strategy to deliver a scaled and differentiated array of premium news, analysis, and entertainment produced by thousands of writers, editors, reporters, and videographers around the globe.
As part of the transaction, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post’s co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content, including Engadget, TechCrunch, Moviefone, MapQuest, Black Voices, PopEater, AOL Music, AOL Latino, AutoBlog, Patch, StyleList, and more.
“The acquisition of The Huffington Post will create a next-generation American media company with global reach that combines content, community, and social experiences for consumers,” said Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of AOL. “Together, our companies will embrace the digital future and become a digital destination that delivers unmatched experiences for both consumers and advertisers.”
Armstrong continued, “Arianna is a singularly passionate and dedicated champion of innovative journalistic engagement, and a master of the art of using new media to illuminate, entertain and enhance the national conversation. Arianna is a remarkable person and she will continue to create remarkable outcomes for the combined company.”"
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 1:33pm on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 | Leaked: AOL's Master Plan
-- On February 1, 2011, Business Insider reported:
"Two years into his tenure as AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong is stepping on the gas.
By April, he wants AOL editorial to increase its stories per month from 33,000 to 55,000.
He wants pageviews per story to jump from 1,500 to 7,000.
He wants video stories to go from being 4% of all stories produced to 70%.
He wants the percentage of stories optimized for search engines to reach 95%.
We know all this, because right now, Armstrong's lieutenants are making their way through the company's many editorial divisions, training them on "The AOL Way.""
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 5:15pm on Friday, January 28, 2011 | Michael Manos Joins AOL as Senior Vice President, Technology Operations, the company announced on January 27, 2011:
"AOL Inc. today announced that Michael Manos has joined as Senior Vice President, Technologies where he will be responsible for running the day to day technology operations at AOL. He will be based in the company's Dulles office reporting to Alex Gounares, AOL's Chief Technology Officer. As part of the global technology leadership team, Manos will support the development of advances in operations and data center technologies for the company.
"Michael brings a wealth of valuable experience and expertise to the team," said Alex Gounares, AOL Chief Technology Officer. "We are thrilled to have this highly sought after candidate on board as we continue to focus on developing best in class platform technologies that enable us to deliver excellent experiences to all of our users."
Michael Manos comes to AOL with over 17 years of experience in data center management, information technology platforms and large scale operations at leading companies around the country. Most recently, he was a vice president at Nokia where he was responsible for the global operations, consolidation and re-structuring of service operations for commercial-facing products and services. Prior to Nokia, Michael was a senior vice president for technical services at Digital Realty Trust where he oversaw the design, engineering, construction, and long term operation for the company's data center operations. He also held leadership positions at Microsoft, Walt Disney Company and Nuclio Corporation.
"I am excited to join AOL, especially now as the company is refocusing on providing its users with the best possible experience online and that starts with building a world class technology team to support all of the great work begin done by AOL's product teams," said Michael Manos. "Working with the global technology leadership team, I look forward to advancing the technological innovation across the AOL network.""
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 4:37pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | -- January 18, 2011 -- Jason Cochran is now executive editor at AOL Travel. He was previously editor-at-large at WalletPop.com.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:02am on Monday, January 17, 2011 | AOL Bets on Hyperlocal News, Finding Progress Where Many Have Failed
-- On January 16, 2011, The New York Times reported:
"City council meetings, high school football games and store openings may seem like small town news, but they are critical to AOL’s revival effort.
Over the last year and a half, AOL, the former Internet colossus, has spent tens of millions of dollars to build local news sites across the country through Patch.com. The idea is that the service would fill the gap in coverage left by local newspapers, many of which are operating on a string after declines in advertising revenue.
Patch has already set up shop in nearly 800 towns. By the end of this year, it expects that to be in 1,000 — each one with an editor and a team of freelance writers."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:49am on Friday, January 14, 2011 | AOL Announces Big Changes To Three Major Properties
-- On January 13, 2011, Business Insider reported:
"America Online (AOL) just announced a major shake up of its content business, outsourcing the production of content for three important properties.
AOL's sports section, Fanhouse, will be working with the Sporting News. The Sporting News will tackle much of the daily grind of sports, while AOL's Fanhouse will still handle much of the opinion type pieces.
AOL's health section will get content from Everyday Health. AOL's real estate section will get content from Move.com."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:22am on Friday, January 14, 2011 | AOL Selects Everyday Health to Become Exclusive Health Destination
-- January 13, 2011 -- Everyday Health, Inc. today announced that America Online (AOL) will make Everyday Health the exclusive health destination for AOL Network, replacing AOL Health. Beginning April 1, 2011, AOL's nearly 14 million daily users seeking health content will be directed to Everyday Health's award-winning health content.
This partnership solidifies Everyday Health's leadership in online health. In Q4 2010, Everyday Health led the health category, according to comScore, with 26.8 million monthly unique visitors. This deal will provide AOL users with easy access to the advice, tools, guidance, and support, which has made Everyday Health so popular with health-information seekers. The deal underscores Everyday Health's importance to health marketers--the company will retain responsibility for all advertising sales, regardless of where users come from, and offer a significant increase in qualified users and valuable advertising inventory on Everyday Health.
As the exclusive health destination for AOL's health condition, disease and drug content, Everyday Health will be promoted through AOL's homepage with prominent placement throughout AOL. AOL's active health seekers will be led to EverydayHealth.com and its comprehensive portfolio of health and wellness sites that span the health spectrum – from in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to healthy lifestyle offerings.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:55am on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 | -- January 11, 2011 -- Stephen Bromberg is now executive editor at AOL.com. He was previously executive editor at FoxNews.com .
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:05pm on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | AOL Raided: Bill Wilson Poaches a Horde of Old Colleagues
-- Business Insider reported on December 13, 2010:
"Ex-AOL EVP Bill Wilson has poached eleven former AOL colleagues to join him at his new venture, Townsquare Media.
As chief of digital at Townsquare Media, Wilson is trying to revamp over 100 local radio stations to have a strong online presence."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:23am on Monday, December 13, 2010 | America Online (AOL) Tries a Do-It-Yourself Reinvention
-- Crain's New York Business reported on December 12, 2010:
"One year after it was spun off from Time Warner Inc., AOL is left to struggle on alone. Efforts to reinvent itself as a powerhouse provider of news and information, supplying everything from celebrity gossip and political news to insights on finance and fashion, have yet to yield results.
Total revenues for the first nine months of the year have tumbled to $1.8 billion, 25% below the levels of the year-earlier period, and are forecast to be down 26% for the year as a whole. Feeding the decline has been a 25% slide in ad sales, which account for slightly more than half of all revenue. That drop contrasts sharply with an expected 14% spike in online ad spending in the U.S. this year, to a total of $26 billion, according to eMarketer.
AOL's revenues were also hurt by a 27% plunge in subscription revenue from the company's old Internet-access business. The number of AOL subscribers plumbed a new low in the third quarter, dropping to 4.1 million from 5.4 million a year earlier.
Like Yahoo, AOL is fighting against the social media tide, as Web users—and advertisers—flock to Facebook."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:22am on Thursday, December 2, 2010 | -- December 2, 2010 -- Debbie Menin is now head of entertainment marketing at America Online (AOL), based in the company's Beverly Hills office. She was previously vice president of branded entertainment at Parade Magazine.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:28am on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | America Online (AOL) Creates Video Division
-- TheWrap reported on November 23, 2010:
"AOL has been making a hard push and pouring hundreds of millions into building out its online video operation.
On Tuesday, it created a division -- AOL Video – to unify those efforts. Or, as AOL put it, to “aggregate its vast online video library assets under one strategic umbrella, and to drive the creation, production and syndication of high-quality online video content for its millions of users.”"
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