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Ad Council Launches New AOL-Backed Social Site for PSAs

The Advertising Council, which is the leading producer of public service announcements in the United States, has unveiled a new site at MyAdCouncil.org. The site is intended to encourage advertising agencies, media companies, and advertisers to expand the reach of their PSAs by using social media platforms.

AOL and Time Warner Officially Splitting Up

Sometimes, what looks like it will be as tasty as chocolate and peanut butter, ends up tasting more like pickles and ice cream. Nothing matches that last culinary disaster better than the merger of AOL and Time Warner. Well, on December 9th, that union will be no more.

Google and Bing Increase Share of Enterprise Search Traffic

iCrossing has shared the findings from its Enterprise Natural Search Share Index. This is a look at natural search traffic to enterprise level sites, based on a large sample of Fortune 1000 companies across all major verticals.

AOL Names Post-Time Warner Board of Directors

AOL has named eight members to serve on its Board of Directors, once the company's separation from Time Warner is Complete. The members have experience in Internet media, entertainment, marketing, and finance. 1. Former Amazon Senior Vice President and CIO Richard Dalzell holds a B.S. in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He has also worked as Vice President of the Information Systems Division at Wal-Mart.

Rapleaf Looks At Age, Gender Of Email Users

It's often interesting to learn about a product or service's users - particularly when you are one.  Maybe you'll find that your stylish small car is popular with old ladies, for example.  Or that your taste in TV shows mirrors that of eight-year-old boys.  Anyway, Rapleaf recently took a look at this concept as it applies to email.

UFL Debuts Tonight, Partners with AOL

Football has been a common theme in the United States in search trends and traffic, as discussed recently. That has mainly been related to the National Football League and college football. However, a new league debuts tonight, and while it may not come close to achieving the amount of popularity of these other two, a fair amount of people will likely be searching for information about it tomorrow (and late tonight).

AOL Points Finger At Google Over Truveo Failure

The AOL-owned video search engine known as Truveo isn't doing so well.  The cause of the site's poor performance isn't a mystery to its president, however; in a very interesting statement, he quite bluntly placed the blame on Google.

Former YouTube Monetization Guy Moves To AOL

The man to whom Google once entrusted YouTube's financials is now going to see what he can do for AOL.  Former YouTube head of monetization Shashi Seth has been hired as AOL's senior vice president of global advertising products. 

Ex -Yahoo Exec Joins AOL

AOL has named former Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse as President of its Internet and Mobile Communications. Garlinghouse will also head up AOL's Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus, acting as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company's venture capital arm led by Jon Brod.

AOL Taps Arthur Minson As CFO

AOL has named Arthur Minson as the company's new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Minson replaces Nisha Kumar, who left AOL earlier this summer. Minson was previously with Time Warner Cable, where he served as Executive Vice President and Deputy CFO and had a hand in helping manage that division's separation from Time Warner. Prior to his role at Time Warner Cable, Minson led AOL's Corporate Finance and Development activities.