Speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, Calif. today, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong suggested that Go90, Verizon’s free mobile video app, may be dismantled. Verizon launched Go90 in late 2015 with a focus on mobile video for a millennial generation.
In response to Unilever CMO Keith Weed’s threat to Facebook and Google about cleaning up their platforms to be a more positive social media experience or lose ad revenue, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong, speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California today, suggested that his platform, a joint-venture of Verizon brands AOL and Yahoo, will be a much safer and more positive experience. Unilever’s complaint (as well as rival Proctor and Gamble) is that there seems to be no control over how ads are placed on Facebook and Google, with their ads often appearing opposite questionable content.
Armstrong went on to say that parent Verizon is planning on folding its Go90 mobile video service into Oath and redistributing the content thru other properties of Oath. “There’s a bunch of stuff that should be in the Huffington Post, a bunch of stuff that should be in Yahoo Sports, a bunch of stuff that should be in Yahoo Finance,” he said. “So you’ll see basically the power of Go90 and those partnerships start to get distributed at scale.”
Source: Recode.net
Todd Erwin has been a reviewer at Home Theater Forum since 2008. His love of movies began as a young child, first showing Super 8 movies in his backyard during the summer to friends and neighbors at age 10. He also received his first movie camera that year, a hand-crank Wollensak 8mm with three fixed lenses. In 1980, he graduated to "talkies" with his award-winning short The Ape-Man, followed by the cult favorite The Adventures of Terrific Man two years later. Other films include Myth or Fact: The Talbert Terror and Warren's Revenge (which is currently being restored). In addition to movie reviews, Todd has written many articles for Home Theater Forum centering mostly on streaming as well as an occasional hardware review, is the host of his own video podcast Streaming News & Views on YouTube and is a frequent guest on the Home Theater United podcast.
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