In 2011 AOL reportedly paid $160 million to get hyperlocal news website Patch.com off the ground and while the company continues to lose money on the project new numbers show tripled traffic year-over-year. According to analytics firm comScore Patch.com overall […]
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong would like all you media types to lay the hell off all the money-bleeding Patch talk, thank you very much. Armstrong was defensive of his pet property speaking about it recently, underscoring how important the hyperlocal […]
The Huffington Post has received a lot of slack from bloggers who can’t understand why anyone would write for the site without being compensated, then again those writers are adults who are free to make up their own minds, many […]
AOL got a slight boost in trading today following a piece from an unlikely source- the New York Post– that the company may be heading for the auction block. An earnings call earlier this month saw a lower-than-expected outlook for fiscal […]
The biggest story across the Eastern seaboard this weekend- and to a degree elsewhere- was the deadly and much-hyped Hurricane Irene. As the storm swept through the region, the clamor for hyperlocal information began- particularly given the localized nature of […]
Perhaps the most ambitious venture into hyperlocal news and media is AOL’s well-seeded Patch, a network of local bloggers that are essentially working for the company to replace the dying hometown newspaper. In the past, communities were served by village […]
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Miguel Ferrer, General Manager of AOL Latino confirmed on Monday that Patch Latino, the Latino brance of AOL’s hyperlocal news network will launch this fall and is already in the process of hiring journalists in select market. Speaking to Portada, […]
AOL owned Patch.com on Wednesday announced that they have set a major milestone, posting their one millionth news article. Patch is currently powered by more than 850 websites with 1,000 editors that post an original piece of content every 12 […]
Patch.com currently offers more than 800 Patch sites which offer hyperlocal news across the United States and because of that fact the company now ranks No. 5 on OMMA Magazine’s list of the 100 most Important Online Publishers. The hyperlocal […]
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