Wednesday 25 April 2012

New Fronts: AOL to Create Video Destination for Ad Dollars

If the goal of Internet companies' “New Front” presentations is to convince advertisers that it’s easy to buy online video ads, AOL’s presentation aims to show that it’s creating an online complement to TV ads.
In a speech to hundreds of advertisers, CEO Tim Armstrong announced that AOL [AOL  24.61    -0.14  (-0.57%)   ] is launching the “AOL On Network” to bring all of AOL’s videos under one umbrella. It’s 14 content channels that reach nearly 57 million viewers on various brand sites. AOL is clearly chasing the $7 billion in online video spending expected in the U.S. by 2015, according to eMarketer..

from CNBC

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Presumably this is AOL equivalents of the content channel strategy allegedly being implemented on Burst.

On the face of it looks very promising -but hey, this is Blinkx we're talking about. If it can possibly be screwed up and defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, Chandratillake is just the man to do it...

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