Music seems better off in other environs. Yahoo! Music head of label relations and programming John Lenac left last year. Yahoo! Music dropped its Yahoo! Music Unlimited, its on-demand music service, in 2008, outsourced its radio service to CBS Radio in 2011 and adopted Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio last year. The Huffington Post specializes in current and political news while putting an emphasis on technology and entertainment, where the site’s music articles are housed.ĪOL’s move is further proof that music plays an uncertain in online portals’ businesses. The company acquired Huffington Post in 2011 for $315 million and created the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. AOL’s total U.S.-based traffic was 110.8 million in February, up slightly from 108.3 million a year earlier.ĪOL owns a number of popular online news sites but has no music properties outside of AOL Music. The Boot and The BoomBox were also launched in 2008.ĪOL Music attracted more than 1.2 million daily and more than 25 million monthly visitors in July 2012, according to the comScore data at AOL’s advertising site. Spinner was revised in 2008 as an editorial site with interviews and articles as well as free downloads and streams. Spinner gave AOL a streaming and MP3 download presence while Nullsoft gave the company the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media software. An unconfirmed report says AOL’s Winamp/SHOUTcast service will also remain operational.ĪOL acquired Spinner and Nullsoft in 1999 for $400 million. AOL Radio clarified in a tweet that the Slacker-powered AOL Radio service will continue to operate. There have been layoffs at AOL Music as well as the blogs Spinner, The Boot, Noisecreep and The BoomBox. Nearly all of AOL Music took a hit, according to the tweets from AOL Radio. Lyne, a former ABC Entertainment and Martha Stewart Living Online exec, in February was brought in the manage AOL’s unique content brands, overseeing the properties’ growth and maximizing partnerships. The person said at a March meeting with Susan Lyne, the recently appointed CEO of AOL’s Brand Group, the team was told it was not generating sufficient advertising revenue, and there was “blood in the water” after a hiring freeze was announced a couple of weeks ago. In recent years AOL Music’s staff and resources had gradually diminished, with staffers who’d either been laid off or left voluntarily not being replaced, and freelance budgets dropping. I don’t know.”Ī person with knowledge of the situation told that the entire music staff was gathered into a room Friday afternoon by the HR department and told they had until the end of the day to vacate the offices. He also vaguely hinted that Spinner may not be shutting down after all, but admitted he’s uncertain: “Maybe you haven’t heard the last of Spinner. Jet to Reunite For 'Get Born' Anniversary Tour
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