![]() ![]() McAdam’s successor, Hans Vestberg, is still interested in content, but his primary focus is on juicing Verizon’s mobile network. Lowell McAdam, who brokered the AOL deal with Armstrong, also appears to have thrown a wrench into Oath’s ambitions. Alice Ryan, Tim and Paula Armstrong, Glass Artist and Tapestry Weaver, Velvet Magazine, July 2018. Contrast that with AT&T, which immediately blasted out channels like CNN and HBO to subscribers after it closed its purchase of Time Warner in June. More than a year in, Oath’s content apps like, say, Yahoo Finance or Yahoo Sports, still aren’t pre-loaded onto the home screens of Verizon customers. There have also been frustrations regarding the limited extent to which Verizon has shared its customer data, as well as a lack of visibility on Verizon’s phones. Part of what’s driving the C-suite exodus is that these executives expected Oath to be spun out or run independently, which isn’t happening. Ravitz, who was once Rupert Murdoch’s chief of staff and a press officer in the Bloomberg administration, had only come aboard in May, from her job as a top communications official for the N.F.L. The first vinyl pressing of the Rancid leaders solo album is on white vinyl for Record Store Day 2018. Wittman is a former Dropbox executive who landed at Oath in January. ![]() Vanessa Wittman, Oath’s chief financial officer, and Natalie Ravitz, Oath’s chief communications officer, are opting to leave the company later this month after less than a year in their roles, people familiar with their plans told me. Two of Oath’s other top executives have likewise decided to hang up their hats. of AOL, is “in discussions to depart as soon as next month.” And apparently Armstrong isn’t the only one. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Armstrong, Oath’s C.E.O. One year later, things haven’t quite gone according to plan. The idea was to take on Google and Facebook by pairing Verizon’s mobile mojo with the content and advertising potential of Oath properties like HuffPost, Yahoo News, and Tumblr. The Foundation year at CSA included classes in drawing, colour theory, painting, printmaking, graphic design, sculpture, calligraphy, 3D construction and art. Last summer, Tim Armstrong was preaching the gospel of the newly formed AOL-Yahoo combination known as Oath, parent-company Verizon’s answer to the mega-scale mash-ups of the modern media era. ![]()
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