AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Sits For A Q&A en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:35:23 -0400 Michael Learmonth durden Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:54:35 -0400 "The model is Disney." hahahahaha.... Walt must be turning in his grave. Where's the theme park ??? Probably at the new Score's where I see some of these executives hanging out. Elliot Spitzer Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:07:38 -0400 Hey Michael- Why don't you ask Timmy how he plans to make up the difference between the revenue hemorrhaging with the access business and ad sales? When you have 6M people paying you $10/mo that is a sweet deal....but that number is way down from the peak of 30M subscribers and continues to fall every month. If current numbers are correct, the access business is generating $720M a year, today. If the subs drop to 5M in 2010, that is a loss of $120M in just one year! Notice that Tim says NOTHING about how he plans to retain those subscribers that he characterizes as being invaluable to generating audience for AOL sites. So, we have a potential loss of $120M in current access sub revenue for 2010. How are the ad sales folks supposed to come up with $120M in new incremental sales above and beyond the sure to be lofty targets for 2010? All of the sound and fury about AOL ad sales is nothing more than musical chairs. At the end of the day advertisers buy eyeballs. Unless Timmy can make the eyeballs jump dramatically, which is a total crapshoot, the convergence of declining access revenues and even healthy ad sales growth will not prevent the creation of a perfect storm for AOL tanking completely. Timmy and AOL are just like Punch and The New York Times. Declining readership (circulation) great free online content, huge operational cost structures and ad sales that can never close the huge gap between subscription revenues and the money it takes to produce the paper and distribute it. By the way, you can't escape by firing people and blaming them for not hitting the numbers when the business model is unworkable and outdated. someone Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:53:30 -0400 May be a billion (US $ of course). Sardi Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:18:09 -0400 How much money does AOL make from the google partnership? AOL India Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:12:29 -0400 Mr. Michael Learmonth, I am very delighted to hear Mr. Armstrong say "here are a lot of great things happening at Platform A and MediaGlow, and some of the international services." You know Mr. Armstong well can you ask him what BDC particularly international portal team should do since he thinks we are doing very well. Dear Dulles and NewYork Fellows, Now you proof what I am always saying that international is best. As you Americans say "BDC Rocks"