AOL shows revenue growth including $156.7 million from subscribers

In these difficult, confusing tech times it’s good to see AOL making some money and showing some growth.


AOL has done a decent job as a news portal, email, etc. but most interesting to me is they pulled in $156.7 million in subscribers. While down 8%, that’s still a lot of people who mostly lack broadband, I assume.



The statistics read:

AOL Reports 13% Revenue Growth and 19% Adjusted OIBDA Growth in Q4
Global Advertising Revenue Grows 23% Fueled by Pricing Growth
AOL Delivers 6th Consecutive Quarter of Unique Visitor Growth
AOL Networks Grows Revenue 50%, Fueled by Video, Mobile and Programmatic
Brand Group Grows Revenue 4% and Tripled Adjusted OIBDA
Record Low Churn of 1.3% Mitigates Membership Group Revenue Decline
AOL Margins Expand by More Than 100 Basis Points

Let's not forget the official PR bit:

“2013 was AOL’s most successful year in the last decade, and we accomplished our goal of industry level growth at scale for AOL,” said Tim Armstrong, AOL Chairman and CEO. “AOL’s exceptionally talented team continues to execute against our strategy and our results show meaningful progress in the most important areas of media and technology. AOL plans to invest in our market leading strategies in 2014, while we continue to grow the company.”