| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.04.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 4/16/16 | Delivery.com acquired BrewDrop; Airbnb bought ChangeCoin; Logitech purchased Jaybird
Delivery.com acquired on-demand alcohol delivery company BrewDrop. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
The app BrewDrop app will shut down once ... |
| 23.08.2014 | How does Demand Media make money? | Demand Media the majority of its money from service fees, including advertising and subscriptions
It's not a revelation to say that the Internet has changed the way we consume, well, everything from television, to movies and even news. The ... |
| 15.07.2014 | ScribbleLive acquires CoveritLive from Demand Media | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Looks like the liveblogging world just got a bit ... |
| 15.07.2014 | ScribbleLive acquires CoveritLive from Demand Media | Looks like the liveblogging world just got a bit cozier. ScribbleLive just announced its acquisition of CoverItLive from Demand Media. Both services will continue to operate as separate entities, even though they were once quite competitive... |
| 04.03.2014 | Demand Media Sells Its Content Creation Services To Brands | Demand Media is extending its content creation services to brands, publishers and agencies. It’s also launching new content formats, like original photography, infographics and animated GIFs for clients.
The company says it’s opening up acc... |
| 26.02.2014 | Demand Media Earnings Continue To Suffer Google’s Wrath | Demand Media reported its financial results for Q4 and fiscal 2013 on Tuesday. The company continues to suffer at the hands of Google algorithm changes (it just so happens that this week marks the three-year anniversary of the Panda update)... |
| 11.12.2013 | Variety Calls Demand Media ‘Epic Fail’ | We’ve been following the Demand Media story with intrigue over the last few years, as it has proven to be the highest profile example of how a site can truly game Google, and make a business out of it, only to have that backfire at the hand... |
| 05.11.2013 | Demand Media domain spinoff ‘Rightside’ will be based in Seattle region | Taryn Naidu will be CEO of the new Rightside Group.
Kirkland, Wash., will be home to a new domain services company called Rightside Group after its spinoff from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand Media Inc.
Taryn Naidu, currently Demand Medi... |
| 04.09.2013 |
Demand Media Gets $225M Credit Facility
| Santa Monica-based online publisher Demand Media said Tuesday afternoon that it has entered into a new, $225M credit facility, split between a $125M revolving credit facility and a $100M term loan. According to Demand Media, the new facilit... |
| 24.06.2013 | Demand Media Acquires Artist Marketplace Society6 For $94 Million | Demand Media just announced that it has acquired Society6, an ecommerce marketplace for artists.
“All an artist needs to do is upload their artwork or design and consumers can customize a wide range or products, from iPhones to T-shirts to ... |
| 19.02.2013 | Demand Media Says It Will ‘Explore’ Split Into Two Separate Companies | In today’s fourth-quarter earnings report, Demand Media (which operates sites including eHow.com and Livestrong.com, and which has been criticized for being a “content farm”) says it’s considering a plan to split into two publicly traded co... |
| 07.01.2013 | Demand Media expands domain registrar with Name.com purchase | Demand Media bought Name.com today, pulling the company’s nearly 1.5 million domain names into its own registrar, eNom.
The companies did not reveal the terms of the acquisition, though it did state that with Name.com on board, Demand Media... |
| 12.11.2012 | Demand Media cuts ties with Lance Armstrong | Media platform will continue to work with Livestrong, which Armstrong will no longer be a part of
I’m going to be totally honest with you here: I do not care that Lance Armstrong cheated in the Tour de France. Not one bit.
First of all, the... |
| 07.11.2012 | This Google Panda “Victim” Just Posted Record Revenue And Profitability | The Google Panda update, originally unleashed in early 2011, continues to take its toll on the Internet, for better or for worse (most would probably say better). While there are frequently rumors about new updates or refreshes to Panda, th... |
| 10.06.2012 | From MIT’s blackjack team to the quantified self: Jeff Ma’s new startup TenXer | What do a team of card-counting MIT students making millions in Vegas casinos and a personal productivity startup have in common? Not much, perhaps, at first glance. But there are common threads between Jeffery Ma’s high-roller blackjack da... |
| 10.06.2012 | From MIT’s blackjack team to the quantified self: Jeff Ma’s new startup TenXer | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
What do a team of card-counting MIT students maki... |
| 05.06.2012 |
Demand Media Alum Gets $100M For Domain Registrar
| A brand new, domain registration startup headed by a set of ex-Demand Media executives, has just raised an astounding $100M for its efforts. Donuts Inc., headed by former Demand Media President and Chief Strategy Officer Paul Stahura, said ... |
| 19.05.2012 | Lightswitch Aims to Bring Professional Video to Small Business | As a PR guy for tech startups, I’ve had countless clients approach me about how to make them or their products “go viral.” There’s arguably no better way than video, and several companies have been born purely to address this need.
But ther... |
| 24.02.2012 | To LA, with love: photos from VentureBeat/DEMO meetup | The LA tech scene is hot, and so we hit the town looking for great startups to write about, and to invite to our DEMO conference.
The list of Los Angeles companies making waves is growing: HauteLook sold for $270M to Nordstrom, Riot Games r... |
| 19.02.2012 | Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman | Editor’s note: Aileen Lee is a partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focuses on investing in consumer internet ventures. You can read more about Lee at KPCB.com and follow her on Twitter at @aileenlee.
Good... |
| 16.11.2011 | Dylan’s Desk: How the Internet is dividing publishers into two camps | Glam Media founder Samir Arora thinks he knows the future of media.
The secret, he is betting, is brand advertising displayed against high-quality, premium content.
That stands in stark contrast to the advertising model that’s worked best f... |
| 16.11.2011 | Dylan’s Desk: How the Internet is dividing publishers into two camps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Glam Media founder Samir Arora thinks he knows th... |
| 19.10.2011 | How you can be an expert and get paid for it, the Demand Media way | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re an expert on any subject, you can becom... |
| 17.05.2011 | Q&A with Demand Media co-founder Shawn Colo | Shawn Colo dishes on Demand's content strategy, its M&A forecast, and how it's responding to Panda
Vator Splash LA is coming up next week, and to get ready for it, I struck up a chat with one of our keynote speakers, Demand Media co-fou... |
| 06.05.2011 | Demand shares rise on solid Q1 revenue | Demand Media's Q1 is marked by better-than-expected revenue while it gets spanked by Google
Shares of Demand Media ended the day up 3%, on the first day after reporting better-than-expected quarterly results.
Demand Media had good news and ... |
| 30.04.2011 | Former Demand Media exec Paul Stahura emerges at stealthy Donuts Inc. | Donuts Inc. is likely baking something other than sweet treats (Arnold Gatilao)
Paul Stahura, who sold the domain name registrar eNom to Demand Media in 2006, has emerged at the helm of a stealthy Seattle area company called Donuts Inc. Ver... |
| 18.04.2011 | Demand Media Downplays Changes to Google’s Search Algorithm | When Google announced a tweak to its search algorithm in February, the company presented the change as a move to help improve search results. The official announcement said it wanted to make sure search unearthed “high quality sites,” and w... |
| 28.03.2011 | Open Angel Forum presenter Contently aims to clean up Google | There’s a good chance you’ve noticed the recent decline in the quality of Google’s search results.
While the search giant says it considers dozens of factors in its search rankings, most believe that the culprit is “content farms” like Dema... |
| 14.03.2011 | Wikio rumored to be closing an 8-figure investment round, on its way to becoming Euro internet champ | Yeah, this round of funding is huger than huge. Well, at least for Europe. And while it may be nowhere near Groupon’s, like, billion-dollar-round, it is definitely amongst the bigger deals on this side of the Atlantic.
Multiple sources have... |
| 03.03.2011 | Demand Media buys CoveritLive: content farm meets liveblogging | Notorious content farm Demand Media announced today that it has purchased CoveritLive, a popular “liveblogging” tool used to cover events as they happen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
CoveritLive events reach over 60 million people ... |
| 03.03.2011 | Demand Media snaps up CoveritLive | The acquisition comes as Demand is beefing up its original content offerings
Content and domain company Demand Media announced Thursday that it has acquired CoveritLive, a live blogging and commentary company that has powered live events fo... |
| 28.02.2011 | Demand Media's Traffic Drops, After Google Search Change (Exclusive) | Google adjusted its search algorithms to improve search results to better emphasize high quality content. What exactly that means, the search giant didn't say. But it looks as though content mills like Demand Media and Helium.com already ma... |
| 25.02.2011 | Google takes aim at low-quality sites in search, Demand Media unfazed | Google last night announced a major update to its search algorithm that aims to remove low-quality sites from search results and improve the rankings for high-quality sites.
But notorious content farm Demand Media — who some think that Goog... |
| 25.02.2011 | Google's war on content farms begins with algorithm update | Google took a big step Thursday night towards dealing with the issue of content farms clogging results, changing its algorithms to weed out low-quality sites. The company said the changes would "noticeably impact" 11.8 percent of ... |
| 25.02.2011 | Google/Demand Media blog wars over algorithm | Google announces algorithm changes believed to target Demand, and Demand responds
Fresh off the heels of its latest spat with a company found to be gaming its algorithm (Overstock.com), Google has finally put the smack down on Web companies... |
| 23.02.2011 | Demand Media Earnings: Public but Still Playing Shell Games | Demand Media had its first earnings announcement and started on what seemed to be a good note -- an actual profit. Ah, but don't get too excited, as Demand says to expect losses this year starting with its first quarter.
Granted, ramping up... |
| 22.02.2011 | Demand Media: Content farm? What content farm? | Demand Media had its first earnings call as a public company this afternoon, and chief executive Richard Rosenblatt took the opportunity to fire back at critics who have accused the company of being nothing more than a content farm churning... |
| 02.02.2011 | Will computer-generated narratives make journalists redundant? | There’s been an undercurrent of paradox kicking up dust in my otherwise clinical views on technology. I’ve tried to suppress it, but it keeps bubbling to the surface. I consider myself not only pro-technology, but obsessed with it, and some... |
| 02.02.2011 | Will computer-generated narratives make journalists redundant? | There’s been an undercurrent of paradox kicking up dust in my otherwise clinical views on technology. I’ve tried to suppress it, but it keeps bubbling to the surface. I consider myself not only pro-technology, but obsessed with it, and some... |
| 26.01.2011 | Demand Media IPO Bullish, Stirs The Google Grizzly Bear | We’ve written a lot about content farms and in particular the largest of them all, Demand Media. Shares of Demand Media rose 35% today on the back of its IPO. Demand Media’s market valuation now matches the scale of its content business, wh... |
| 24.11.2010 | Gather Raises $2.4 Million, Makes Demand Media-Esque Pivot | Social news site Gather has raised another $2.4 million in funding this week, in order to pivot its core business and focus on being a content on demand platform for other publishers, like Demand Media. Gather currently allows to writers to... |
| 17.11.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms | The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands of pieces of content per day. Much of it is in the fo... |
| 03.11.2010 | Demand Media's IPO slated within next 30 days | The content startup said to make its initial public offering before the end of the month
Demand Media, one of the fastest growing media startups and certainly one of the most controversial, will make its initial public offering before the e... |
| 02.11.2010 | Content-maker BlueGlass launches new tool for online publishers | Online marketing company BlueGlass Interactive has released a content creation tool for publishers that it hopes will put it in direct competition with powerhouse online content provider Demand Media, without any of the negativity that Dema... |
| 20.09.2010 | Internet Brands to be acquired for $640M | Hellman & Friedman pay a near 50% premium, and 4x sales; Sale price could bode well for Demand's IPO
Internet Brands, a NASDAQ-listed internet media company, announced Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Hell... |
| 16.08.2010 | BlueGlass Interactive Launches SecondStep Enterprise SEO Platform | The much buzzed about BlueGlass Interactive announces today the launch of its automated SEO platform for businesses, which the company is releasing in private Beta after trying it out on high profile customers like Homeaway.
Dubbed SecondSt... |
| 09.08.2010 | Demand Media takes first step to market in filing for IPO | Demand Media, an online content provider, has taken the first step towards an initial public offering. The company’s S-1 filing on Friday revealed details of the company’s business — semi-automated content production with an eye towards cap... |
| 09.08.2010 | Demand Media takes first step to market in filing for IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Demand Media, an online content provider, has tak... |
| 06.08.2010 | Bubble Alert: Xobni's Spending Money On A Mural | On the heels of the as of yet unprofitable Demand Media IPO filing, it looks like email software purveyor Xobni (that’s Inbox spelled backwards) has decided to spend money on a mural. And an elaborate one at that. While the rest of the coun... |
| 29.07.2010 | Video Content Farms: Howcast | Content farms have been in the spotlight over the past year. They’re companies that generate hundreds or thousands of new pieces of content on a daily basis. Much of their traffic comes from Google search, so the aim of content farms is to ... |
| 20.07.2010 | How is Yahoo!’s New Content Farm Working Out? | Two months ago, Yahoo! acquired Associated Content for an estimated $90-100M. Over the past few years, Associated Content has become one of the most prolific content farms (companies that churn out hundreds or thousands of new pieces of con... |
| 20.05.2010 | Screened, a new video fan site, rewards members who contribute | Whiskey Media, the company of mostly ex-CNET staffers behind Anime Vice, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine and Tested, has added a fifth site to its portfolio of pop-media portals.
Screened is a fan site for video that plays on any screen, whether it’... |
| 18.05.2010 | Yahoo Grabs Associated to Increase Content | Yahooannounced today that it is buying Associated Content, a user-generated media company with 380,000 contributors and 16 million monthly visitors.
Yahoo, the second largest search engine after Google, said it will complete this acquisitio... |
| 04.05.2010 | YouTube expands video rentals. But audiences aren’t flocking | [Update: A YouTube spokesman explained to VentureBeat that their enhanced rental system has been misinterpreted in news reports. The broader rental options that a YouTube exec described last week will only be available to YouTube’s existing... |
| 09.01.2010 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Nexus One, CES Coverage, Online Finance, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we report on a new “superphone” launched by Google, take a look at how the Web is transforming personal finance, give you 5 reasons why RSS Read... |
| 07.01.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Los Angeles | Best known for its movie stars, sun and surf, Los Angeles probably isn’t the first place you’d think to breed technology. But when you consider the influence of investors like Jason Calacanis and Mark Suster, in addition to the fact that co... |
| 14.12.2009 | Demand Media Acquisition Rumors Heat Up Again. CEO Says No Way. | Los Angeles based Demand Media, a sprawling network of content sites (that was a big part of a post yesterday on the end of hand crafted content), is rumored to be shopping itself to the big Internet companies. A couple of sources have told... |
| 09.12.2009 | wikiHow vs. eHow: Is The Wiki Way Better Than Content Farms? | Jack Herrick knows a bit about Demand Media, one of the top 20 web properties in the U.S. and the subject of several ReadWriteWeb articles about sites that are pumping thousands of pieces of content into the Web every day. Herrick sold the ... |
| 12.11.2009 | How Demand Media Produces 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day | In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Web
today. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media’s content business to Henry Ford’s production line for cars. Demand Media currently produces 4,000 n... |
| 07.11.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, c... |
| 05.11.2009 | The Age of Mega Content Sites – Answers.com and Demand Media | Two companies that produce massive quantities of new content every day, Answers.com and Demand Media, are rapidly moving up the list of top U.S. web properties, as measured by comScore. Answers.com has risen from #26 to #13 in just two mont... |
| 28.10.2009 | Demand Media's IPO ambitions | CEO Richard Rosenblatt on his new media's financing future, and his Godly goals
When you listen to Richard Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder of Demand Media, explain his company's mission, it has a sort of Google-esque ring to it. Google's mis... |
| 24.10.2009 | Tim Armstrong's Secret Project Is To Turn AOL Into A Low-Cost Content Machine | A couple days ago at the Web 2.0 Summit, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong caused a little bit of a stir when he hinted that AOL is working on a “secret” technology project. When pressed for details on what exactly it is, he was vague. But after fishin... |
| 21.10.2009 | Web 2.0: The future of content distribution | Richard Rosenblatt, Dan Rosensweig and Peter Guber share thoughts on distribution and the Internet
In a conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco about where the future of content was headed, three very different experts in the in... |
| 25.08.2009 | Demand Media Is a Page View Generating Machine – And it’s Working | In our recent post about the top 50 web properties in the U.S. according to comScore, we noted that Demand Media is on the rise – moving from #36 to #24 in the past 12 months. Demand Media owns a number of successful sites, including ehow.c... |
| 20.08.2009 | Demand Media invests in CoveritLive | The partnership could add a real-time dimension to discovery widgets.
Demand Media announced a strategic partnership with, and investment in, live blogging platform CoveritLive, which will be integrated into Demand’s social media tools suit... |
| 04.05.2009 | Former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt's Advice To The New Executive Team | Richard Rosenblatt was the Chairman of MySpace at the time that it and parent company Intermix were sold to News Corp. in 2005. He is currently the founder and CEO of Demand Media, a Los Angeles based social media company that has raised ov... |
| 14.03.2009 | Lance Armstrong: Natural Born Twitterer | This guest post is written by Narendra Rocherolle, who was the co-founder of Webshots, a company that he and his partners sold to Excite@Home in 1999 and then again to CNET Networks in 2004. Now as a partner at 83 Degrees, he has been worki... |
| 09.07.2008 | Yahoo Takes A Gander At Demand Media To Plug Some Holes | Demand Media, founded by former Intermix Media (the parent company to MySpace) CEO Richard Rosenblatt, has quietly grown into a pretty large business, with rumored revenues of around $250 million, and profitable. It just so happens that wha... |
| 26.06.2008 | ICANN threatens to change the rules of the domain name game | You may be used to typing in top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net or .edu when heading to websites, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to change that with a decision to open new TLDs for registrati... |
| 25.03.2008 |
Demand Media Raises $35M, Says Report
| PEHub is reporting that Los Angeles-based Demand Media, the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has raised another $35M in funding. No details of the funding have been released. The firm filed a regulatory filing with the SEC on Ma... |
| 04.03.2008 | Demand Media plucks Pluck for $75 million | Demand Media, a company that has made a name for itself by buying up web properties may have landed its biggest catch yet — social media platform provider Pluck. It is a cash deal for $75 million TechCrunch was able to confirm.
Since it was... |
| 08.11.2007 | Demand Media/Vator.tv Challenge | I'm really excited to announce the Demand Media/Vator.tv Challenge. It's a competition seeking the top new media company.
Demand Media, which has raised $320 million, is on a quest to find the top next-generation new media companies and has... |
| 31.10.2007 | Domainers Invest in SharedReviews to Populate Parked Pages | The consumer product review site SharedReviews.com will announce tomorrow that it has taken an undisclosed sum of investment from parties in the domain buying industry. Those investors include Frank Schilling, one of the world’s most succes... |
| 26.09.2007 |
Demand Media Reportedly Raises $100M
| Los Angeles-based Demand Media has reportedly raised another $100M in venture funding. A spokesperson for the firm did not respond to requests by socalTECH for comments on the venture funding, however sources close to the firm confirmed tha... |
| 25.09.2007 | Demand Media Raises $100 Million | Santa Monica, California based Demand Media was founded by Richard Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt was the former President of Intermix Media, the parent company of MySpace. And News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media became the part company of MySpace wh... |
| 25.09.2007 | Demand Media raises $100M more for domain name land grab | Demand Media, the 18 month old company founded by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has gulped another $100 million chunk of venture funding for its domain name purchases.
The latest funding, led by Goldman Sachs, is the company’s... |
| 25.09.2007 | Demand Media Takes $100 Million Series C | Domain holding company Demand Media has taken $100 million Series C funding in a round led by Goldman Sachs that included 3i Group, Generation Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. The new round takes Demand Media... |
| 29.06.2007 | Roundup: Solar-motorbike, Webwag, Marchex, Google Gadget Ventures, more | Here’s the latest (updated) action:
The solar-powered motorbike from SunRed in Spain — Read the little story about how the company hopes to make a prototype soon, and needs venture capital to do so.
Marchex launches huge Web site — The publ... |
| 11.05.2007 | Bambi’s Vator.TV, a pitch platform for entrepreneurs, raises round | Bambi Francisco, the former MarketWatch columnist who left last month amid a stir to form her own video company, has finished raising a round of capital.
The round includes Richard Rosenblatt, the former chief executive of Intermix, owner o... |
| 06.03.2007 | GeoSign Raises $160 Million For Content Acquisitions | In one of the largest private equity financings for an Internet company in recent history, Web publisher GeoSign , located outside of Toronto, has raised US$ 160 million from American Capital. The money will be used primarily for acquisitio... |
| 29.09.2006 | Demand Media raises $100M for Web site land grab | Demand Media, the company pursuing the audacious strategy of buying up a bunch of generic Web sites that have no staff generating real content of their own — to throw advertising on them — has raised another $100 million.
In May, we reporte... |
| 28.09.2006 |
Demand Media Raises $100M
| Santa Monica-based Demand Media has raised $100M in a second round of funding, the firm announced today. The new round was led by 3i and Oak Investment Partners, and also included Spectrum Equity Investors. Demand Media is headed by former ... |
| 28.09.2006 | 3i leads $100m in Demand Media | Demand Media Completes $100M in Funding 3i, Oak Investment Partners and Spectrum Investors fuel rapid growth of new media company
Santa Monica, CA, September 28, 2006 -- Demand Media, Inc., the next-generation web media company, today anno... |
| 04.05.2006 |
Demand Media Raises $120M, Buys eNom
| Los Angeles-based Demand Media, a new company headed by Richard Rosenblatt, former CEO of Intermix Media and chairman of MySpace, has raised $120M and purchased a major provider of domain name registration, eNom. The firm said Monday that i... |
| 02.05.2006 | Demand Media raises $120 million for a bunch of shell Websites | Updated
Here’s news that former MySpace.com chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has raised $120 million to create a company called Demand Media to buy up or create a bunch of generic Web sites that have no staff generating real content of their ow... |
