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AOL is a leading global ad-supported Web company, with a comprehensive display advertising network in the U.S., a suite of popular Web brands and products, and a leading social media network. The company?s strategy focuses on growing the size, engagement and monetization of its worldwide audience by providing highly relevant content and advertising to consumers across the Web. AOL?s business is centered on Platform-A, Publishing and People Networks. In addition, AOL continues to run one of the largest Access businesses in the U.S. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia.
Chief Executive Officer
Tim ArmstrongNumber of Employees 300
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Display Advertising: 541850
Recent Events
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Biz sees decade of tumult
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Notable Analyst Rating Changes: RIMM, DAN, TTWO, HEP, STT Upgrades; NTAP, POT, BCR, CAL Downgraded
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Decade in Review: The last 10 years reshaped how we think, feel and even speak...
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Goldman Sachs Starts AOL AOL at Neutral
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Six People Who Helped Shape a Decade
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AOL Promotes Tekedra M. Jefferson to Lead Global Gov’t Affairs; Announces New Corporate Secretary
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Leading Provider of Advertising Sales Solutions, INVISION, INC., Names Digital Veteran as CEO
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Ailing AOL
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How Apple Could Fill a Void in Its Year of the Tablet
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Reports: AOL's ICQ sought by Google, DST
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Credit Suisse Initiates Coverage on AOL Inc. AOL with an Underperform
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The aerospace company's long-delayed jet is finally ready for a test flight
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Benchmark Co. LLC initiates coverage of AOL Inc. at 'hold'
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AOL's Decline May Curtail Any Bidding War In Search
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AOL AOL Takes Flight... Again
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Merriman Curhan Ford Initiates Coverage on AOL Inc.
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AOL's New Bland Logo Won't Save It From Irrelevancy
News & Analysis
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AOL's New Branding Trades Iconic Running Man For Goldfish
PaidContent
- 2009-11-23
AOL (NYSE: TWX) just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different “reveals” from various artists. The new identity fully debuts when AOL rings the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange Dec. 10. Images here; explanation after the jump. Release:AOL today previewed its new...
Armstrong On AOL's New Branding And 'Very, Very, Very Inexpensive'
PaidContent
- 2009-11-22
The glimpse AOL (NYSE: TWX) offered late Sunday night of its new branding campaign looked more like icons for AIM, not a branding campaign for a company on the verge of reinvention. That’s because what we’re seeing now is only a teaser, as AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told paidContent...
AOL Wrestles With The Value Of Putting Its Brand Name On Everything
PaidContent
- 2009-11-20
Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what brands will be added—but whether any of the major content will...
Interview: AOL's Armstrong: You're Going To See More Changes
PaidContent
- 2009-09-21
Following a roundtable breakfast with the new AOL to kick off Advertising Week, I caught up with CEO Tim Armstrong and got in a few questions (along with MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka). Overall, Armstrong said that he’s relying on AOL (NYSE: TWX) employees to tell him where to make the...
AOL Finds Less Ads Is More ... Or at Least About the Same
BNET
- 2009-07-21
Even as I commented yesterday that there were many perhaps too many moving parts to AOL's press blitz around new CEO Tim Armstrong's Obama-esque first 100 days, one fact jumped out: that the company has pared down the number of ads on its highly-trafficked home page to one, and pulled...
AOL's Tim Armstrong on the Value of Premium Online Content
BNET
- 2009-04-30
So, as promised, I've listened to all three parts of Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom's interview with new AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, and will now tell you about the most interesting part: Armstrong's thoughts on whether the Internet can support quality content. Said Armstrong: The answer is yes, IÂ ...
AOL and StubHub Extend Their User Experiences and Brands on Mobile Devices with uLocate's WHERE™
- 2007-11-06
GPS-enabled AIM Buddy Finder and StubHub widgets now available to WHERE subscribers
The Week; Conde Nast cleans up at the Ellies.
- 2005-04-18
Si Newhouse was the most-thanked man from the podium at last week's National Magazine Awards. His Conde Nast magazines won nine of the 22 Ellies, as the elephant-shaped Alexander Calder-designed trophies are known. But Martha Stewart created the biggest stir, going to the podium to accept...
America Online Names Leonard Short Executive Vice President, Brand Marketing
- 2003-01-09
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DULLES, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 9, 2003 America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced that it has appointed Leonard Short, formerly Executive Vice President, Advertising and Brand Management at Charles Schwab & Company, Inc., as Executive Vice President, Brand Marketing. Reporting to...
MSN swoops in on AOL launch. (Brand Stunt Of The Month)
- 2002-11-01
The world's two biggest internet browsers prepared to do battle as they both launched their latest browser versions within days of each other. On 15 October, AOL launched its latest product at New York's Lincoln Center with the help of Alanis ... The world's two...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Tim Armstrong | Chief Executive Officer |
| Bill Wilson | President, MediaGlow |
| Gregory G. Coleman | President, Platform-A |
| Ted Cahall | President, Products & Technologies |
| Kimberly Strong | Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer |
| Nisha Kumar | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
| Dave Harmon | Executive Vice President, Human Resources |
| Ira Parker | Executive Vice President, Business Development, and General Counsel |
| Joanna Shields | Executive Vice President, & President, People Networks |
| Jon Werther | Executive Vice President, Integrated Operations |
| Kimberley Partoll | Executive Vice President, Access, Business Intelligence & New Ventures |
| Maneesh Dhir | Executive Vice President, International |
| Tricia Primrose Wallace | Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications |
| Tiane Mitchell Gordon | Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion |
| Erin Clift | Senior Vice President, Global Sales Development |
| Jeff Levick | Head, Global Advertising Sales Strategy |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Lawrence Academy Private School | Trustee | Current |
| AOL LLC | Chairman | Current |
| Advertising Research Foundation | Board of Directors | Current |
| KnowledgeStorm, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| AOL LLC | Vice President, Advertising Sales | Former |
| Starwave Corporation | Director of Integrated Sales & Marketing | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | President, MediaGlow | Current |
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Programming | Former |
| Rutgers University Graduate School of Management | MBA | Former |
| State University of New York at Stony Brook | BS in Business Management | Former |
| State University of New York at Stony Brook | BA in Economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | President, Platform-A | Current |
| NetSeer, Inc. | President and CEO | Former |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Executive Vice President, Media & Sales | Former |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Executive Vice President, Global Sales | Former |
| NetSeer, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | President, Products & Technologies | Current |
| Nvtc | Board of Directors | Current |
| CNET Networks, Inc. | CIO | Former |
| Classmates Online, Inc. | COO & Executive Vice President | Former |
| United Online, Inc. | Executive Vice President | Former |
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Platforms and Technologies | Former |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Former |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Master's In Business Administration Studies | Former |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Bachelor's | Former |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Vice President, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | Current |
| Harvard Business School | MBA | Former |
| Harvard College | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Human Resources | Current |
| Clarkson University | MBA | Former |
| Skidmore College | BA in Marketing and Psychology | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Business Development, and General Counsel | Current |
| Zink Imaging, Inc | Executive | Current |
| Zink Imaging, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Polaroid Corporation | Chief Legal Officer | Former |
| Bird Inc | Partner | Former |
| Alston & Bird | Partner | Former |
| Resolution Trust Corporation | Deputy General Counsel | Former |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Former | |
| Emory University School of Law | Law degree | Former |
| Brooklyn College | BA | Former |
| Emory University School of Law | Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, & President, People Networks | Current |
| Bebo LLC | CEO | Former |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Bachelor's Degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Integrated Operations | Current |
| The George Washington University Law School | JD | Former |
| The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania | MBA | Former |
| Emory University | BA | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Access, Business Intelligence & New Ventures | Current |
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Customer Management and Paid Services | Former |
| Duke University | Bachelor's degree in History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, International | Current |
| Stanford University | Master's of Business Administration | Former |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Master's of Science | Former |
| Indian Institute of Technology | Bachelor's of Technology degree | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications | Current |
| Georgetown University | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Senior Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion | Current |
| Women In Community Service, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| AOL LLC | Director of Diversity and Inclusion | Former |
| Wesleyan University | Graduate | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Senior Vice President, Global Sales Development | Current |
| Peoria Ad Club | Board of Directors | Current |
| Google Inc. | Head, Advertising-Agency Relations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| AOL LLC | Head, Global Advertising Sales Strategy | Current |
| Helium, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Search Engine Strategies | Board of Directors | Current |
| Google Inc. | Vice President, Industry Development & Marketing, The Americas | Former |
| Strategic Alliances LLC | Board of Directors | Former |
| DePaul University | J.D. | Former |
| New York University | Bachelor's Degree | Former |
| DePaul University | Degree | Former |
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AOL Taps New C.F.O. Ahead of Spin-Off
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AOL picks former Time Warner cable exec as CFO
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UPDATE 1-AOL picks former Time Warner cable exec as CFO
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AOL Hires Arthur Minson as CFO, EVP
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AOL picks former Time Warner cable exec as CFO
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AOL Selects TW Cable Executive Minson As Chief Financial Officer
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AOL Names Arthur Minson as Chief Financial Officer
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AOL hires new finance chief
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