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AOL poaches YouTube exec David Eun has joined AOL as the firm looks to shift focus to video production.
Signalling its intent to expand its video production arm, AOL has tapped a high-profile Google and YouTube executive.
David Eun, who had been responsible for courting and managing relationships with media companies for Google owned YouTube, will join AOL as president of media and studios.
The move follows AOL's recent purchase of online video production studio Studio-Now, and further confirms the company's ambition to shift focus to content provision.
Tim Armstrong, chief executive of AOL and a former Google executive himself, told the Financial Times: "It's a natural progression for us as we build out the content division. We want to be the broadest scale producer of content for internet."
AOL, which divided from Time Warner in December, recorded a net profit of $1.4 million in the fourth quarter of last year in its first trading update as an independent company in a decade.
Mr Armstrong, who took over the company last year, has restructured its heirarchy, bringing in a number of former Google employees. He also cut global staff by about a third.
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