Tim Armstrong’s First Earnings Call: “AOL Is Not A Quarterly Project”

AOL announced its first quarterly earnings today as a newly public company. Fourth quarter revenues dropped 8% to $471.6 million, and turned a profit of $1.4 million (see the slides below). Notes from CEO Tim Armstrong's first conference call are below. He laid out AOL's strategy, warned that sales would probably be dampened this quarter as a result of reducing a third of its workforce and noted that "AOL is not a quarterly project." He also said that AOl will pursue new paid subscription services in the future. Here are my live notes: