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Yahoo news content launches on The Roku Channel

Verizon subsidiary and Yahoo parent company, Oath, has partnered with Roku to launch Yahoo video content on The Roku Channel in the US. The deal covers live and linear news from Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, HuffPost, Makers and Yahoo Sports – including long-form content, live daily programming, recurring series and special events. The move comes […]

Verizon folds Go90 into Oath, widens its content distribution

Verizon has folded its US video streaming service, Go90, into its Oath division, in a move that see Go90 content distributed through other digital channels. Speaking at the Code Media conference in California, Oath CEO Tim Armstrong said that, “Go90 will be redistributed inside of the super-large distribution that we have overall”. Oath encompasses brands […]

RYOT Studio appoints former YouTube exec as chief business officer

RYOT Studio, the next-generation creative studio owned by Verizon subsidiary Oath, has appointed former YouTube executive Kathryn Friedrich as chief business officer. Friedrich brings more than 20 years of digital advertising and media sales experience to the role and will be responsible for leading the global growth of RYOT Studio, which currently has a presence […]

Oath appoints new CFO amid strategic expansion plan

Verizon subsidiary Oath, the patent company of brands like AOL, Yahoo and HuffPost, has appointed former Dropbox chief financial officer Vanessa Wittman as its new CFO. Whitman will work with Oath CEO Tim Armstrong to help grow the company as it looks to establish itself as “one of the world’s largest internet and mobile brand […]

Verizon makes Oath after completing Yahoo deal

Verizon has competed its US$4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s core business and has combined it with AOL to create a new subsidiary called Oath. As a home to more than 50 media and technology brands, Oath’s portfolio includes HuffPost, Yahoo Sports, AOL.com, Makers, Tumblr, Build Studios and Yahoo Finance. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong becomes CEO […]

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