AOL closes music and sports sites

AOL is closing its music and sports sites in the UK to focus on Huffington Post and its other bigger brands, which are core to its content-led strategy.

AOL: shuts music and sports sites
AOL: shuts music and sports sites

A spokeswoman for AOL said the closure of AOL Music and Fanhouse would enable the company to focus its women and men's lifestyle titles, including MyDaily, Parentdish, Autos, Asylum and the .

AOL's decision to close Music , which aimed to deliver "high quality, magazine style values" to the site. 

Over the past 12 months, AOL's content-led strategy has seen it launch and acquire a raft of premium content sites including, launching MyDaily and and the Huffington Post.

Earlier this week AOL parted company with its president of global advertising and strategy, Jeff Levick.

Levick had been recruited from Google in 2009, shortly after Tim Armstrong became chief executive of AOL.

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