Joseph Tartakoff
Staci D. Kramer
Feb 24, 2011 9:00 AM
In late January, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said it was working to ensure its search results were not overridden with links to spammy sites and so-called content farms. The timing could not have been worse for Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), which is widely considered to be the biggest content farm on…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 22, 2011 5:20 PM
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) CEO Richard Rosenblatt used his company’s first earnings conference call as a public company in part to defend it against criticism that the content it produces is shallow and of poor quality, saying that traffic and Facebook “Likes” proved that the company’s content was valuable. “What…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 27, 2011 11:45 AM
Among the questions I got most often at the just-concluded DLD conference in Munich: What about Demand Media’s future following Google’s public stance on cleaning up its search results? Will it hurt the company’s IPO? My take: depending on Google’s approach, yes, it could hurt but it also could make…
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Amanda Natividad
Staci D. Kramer
Jan 12, 2011 3:18 AM
MySpace has done what few can claim to have accomplished so far this new year: cut its weight nearly in half by slashing close to 500 jobs from the payroll. The social-network-turned-social-entertainment-hub skyrocketed to attention after its 2004 launch and by 2005 was viewed by mainstream media like Viacom (NYSE:…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 16, 2010 12:35 AM
Demand Media has been a controversial and high profile company from the start, not just because of its recent status as the biggest “content farm”, a term the company hates, but whatever (as an aside, I mentioned on a panel I moderated in Feb at our paidContent2010 conference, for them…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 15, 2010 10:56 PM
As the news about Demand Media filing for a possible IPO in August this year leaks out, below are some links about the relatively short history—about four years—of the company, arranged in chronological order: » Demand Media Raises $120 Million For Domain-Names Based Media Company; Buys Two Companies » Demand…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 15, 2010 9:57 PM
Just last month, Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt dismissed the idea of an IPO any time soon during an interview with paidContent. But the FT‘s Ken Li is reporting that the mass content company has hired Goldman Sachs to explore just that and that an IPO could be filed as…
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Staci D. Kramer
Mar 15, 2010 9:08 PM
As luck would have it, I was on my way to meet with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt and key members of his team at the company’s Austin offices when the rumors surfaced about Joanne Bradford leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) for the start-up. Yahoo confirmed it for us, and during…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Apr 10, 2008 2:44 PM
Vator.TV, the video site for startups to pitch themselves, has raised a second round of angel funding led by Venture Farm LLC. Also participating were Jeff Peterson (QuePasa founder) and past investors Peter Thiel, Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media), and Georges Harik (formerly of Google). The funding will go towards building…
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