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In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths,
making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services,
available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to
move forward on this strategy in 2007, with a focus on growing the size
of its online audience, increasing the engagement of its users and
improving its ability to monetize its Web audience.

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AOL Places Huge Bet On Web Video Programming & Curation

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America Online is getting deeper into the online video act with the AOL On Network, a destination that will bring 320,000 videos and will feature 14 content channels. Along with the announcement comes the news that AOL will also be behind 7 new original series, ...

Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March 2012

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Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it's comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters. Did you know that 181 million Americans watched video online in March? Did you know that online video advertising impressions ...

Brightcove Announces Video Content Exchange Initiative

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Brightcove announced a new program today for Video Cloud Pro and Enterprise customers. It's something that was a trend last year I think. They've started a Content Exchange Initiative that allows Video Cloud users to, basically, syndicate content out to their sites to boost the ...

181 Million Americans Watch Over 40 Billion Videos Online In January

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Big numbers continue to accumulate for online video according to comScore who say some 181 million Americans watched more than 40 billion videos in the month. Good for us! In the standard charts there's little movement, like always. Video lengths are up to 6.1 minutes ...

Nielsen's Top Online Video Destinations & Web Brands Of 2011

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A lot changed in 2011. Of course... a lot stayed the same too. Nielsen's year end numbers chart everything from the top web brands to the top social networks and the top online video destinations. And looking over the lists, there's an awful lot of ...

AOL Expands HD Video Offerings to Samsung, Google TV with New App

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AOL has announced a new version of their creatively named AOL HD app, which is now available for Samsung Smart TVs and Google TV. You might remember that it was originally available on Roku, Boxee, DivX TV, and Yahoo! Connected TV.

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The Future Of Online Video Edition

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There's a lot of speculation on the future of online video in this week's round up, on everything from cable to Hollywood to advertising to TV. We also recap all the rest of the week's biggest stories in the world of online video, including news ...

AOL Editors Room Gives Editors New Online Video Resources

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Content is hard to come by, or rather it was. Several initiatives in the latter half of this year are creating curated, syndicated premium video content feeds that can give publishers added video content as well as new monetization options, and AOL has just announced ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Web TV Content Edition

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This was one of the biggest weeks in history for technology-related news, as the world mourned the passing of Steve Jobs. There were also a huge number of stories with a direct impact on the Internet TV wars, as streaming services added new content and ...

Migrating Your Content To Mobile Online Video Platforms: Tips From AOL Video

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Mobile video usage is growing fast among consumers and big video sites like AOL Video are implementing mobile solutions as a result. In part two of our interview with AOL Video's SVP Ran Harnevo, he shares tips with the New Media Minute for how video ...

Yahoo Screen Relaunches In Attempt To Become Major Online Video Destination

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Yahoo, who changes their mind far more than, well... wants in on the online video deal, again. It almost seems like they got wind of what AOL was planning and said "Ooh! ooh! Us too!" Their on again, off again love affair with online video ...

Wide Range of New Original AOL Web Series Coming Soon

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Wow, remember when AOL Video was just a tiny little project that had almost no content, no real driving force apparently and not all that many viewers? Well, maybe they had some viewers, but I wouldn't have considered them the place to go online to ...

How to Grow Video Views & Increase Video Ads - Tips From AOL Video

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The placement, context, and library surrounding online video is critical to success in growing video views, said AOL Video's head Ran Harnevo in an exclusive interview with the New Media Minute. He also shared tips on growing ad revenue through content quality, unique formats and ...

VEVO, Google, Hulu Still On Top In comScore August 2011 Video Metrix

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So here we are another month in the books (and this one a full week later than the normal video metrix numbers) and we see the release of the comScore August 2011 video metrix. No surprise that VEVO topped the YouTube partners, Google topped all sites, ...

AOL HD Pushing Media to Connected Devices and TVs for Higher Brand Engagement

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AOL HD is continuing its march into your living room with its latest announcement that it will start pushing content to connected boxes. Now that doesn't mean that everything will instantly have an AOL video button or app, but so far, they are targeting the ...

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