AOL Shutting Down Asylum, Lemondrop
In recent years, AOL often touted the sophomoric male-targeted site Asylum and the edgy women-aimed Lemondrop as examples of the company’s content-centric future. Both blended original content and aggregation from across the Web, and both were non AOL-branded. Now, both are on their way out.
According to Forbes.com, Asylum will shut down by the end of January, while Lemondrop will be absorbed into the AOL Women’s group.
Both sites have been able to draw traffic. AOL execs had often boasted of Asylum as being No.
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