Tim Armstrong

Tim Armstrong Chairman and CEO
AOL

As chairman and CEO, Armstrong is responsible for setting strategy and overseeing the businesses and day-to-day operations of AOL. In December 2009, he took the company public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Armstrong joined AOL in April 2009 from Google,where he oversaw the company's North American and Latin American advertising sales, marketing and operations teams as president of The Americas Operations. Prior to joining Google, he was vice president of sales and strategic partnerships for Snowball.com. He has also served as director of integrated sales and marketing at Starwave's and Disney's ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures. And at the start of his career, he co-founded and ran a newspaper based in Boston, Mass. Armstrong is on the boards of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the Advertising Council and the Advertising Research Foundation. He does not resemble the AOL Running Man icon, unless he is running.

Posts With Tim Armstrong

AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)

At AOL, down is the new up. No. Really.
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Activist Fund Slams AOL’s Strategy

A little-known activist fund, Starboard Value LP, has trained its guns on AOL Inc., arguing that the Internet company’s strategy of investing in Web content businesses isn’t paying off for investors.

Saul Hansell Departs AOL to Be EIR at Betaworks

The prominent former New York Times writer is aiming to be an entrepreneur, just like the ones he used to write about.
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AOL Beats Estimates, Posts Another Ad Sales Increase. But About Those Domestic Numbers …

An 8 percent sales bump for Tim Armstrong. Enough?
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AOL Plays Mobile Catch-Up

If there’s one market where AOL Inc.’s share of advertising is smaller than the traditional Web market, it is mobile. Now AOL is trying to fix that.

AOL’s Biz Dev SVP and Strategy Chief Heads to Spotify

Top AOL dude abandons ship to head to hot music start-up.
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In This Episode of “As the AOL Turns”: Will Arrington Appear at TechCrunch Disrupt?

Sources said that seems more likely than not, but who knows with this crazy crew!
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AOL and Yahoo Are Not Talking About a Merger (Any More Than I Am a Yahoo CEO Candidate)

If wishes were horses, I suppose, all stumbling Web companies would ride away together into the sunset of success.
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Viral Video: I Finally Get the Taiwan Treatment — Paintballing the CrunchFund Wizard

I cannot express my delight at finally getting to appear in a CGI news video by Next Media Animation, in a segment about the CrunchFund controversy.
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My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
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Here’s Why Wall Street Is Killing AOL