Technology
Oath: The $9 Billion Verizon Media Misadventure
The $9 billion Verizon Media misadventure. From the 2015 AOL acquisition through the 2017 Yahoo acquisition, the Oath rebrand, the $4.6B writedown, and the 2021 Apollo sale for $5B — one of the most-studied corporate strategic failures of the modern U.S. media era.