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A profusion of similar “takes” erupts online after almost any major news event — and the driving force behind that phenomenon is the fact that readers are in control of the process now, not editors or writers. Is that good or bad? Good question
Critics say user-generated networks like Bleacher Report are just SEO-driven content farms that generate “clickbait” posts designed to drive low-quality traffic — but they also provide the opportunity for writers to show their abilities without having to work their way through the traditional media ecosystem.
Men’s lifestyle site Thrillist Media Group, which includes daily email newsletters and group-buying site JackThreads, has raised $13.1 million in Series A funding. The company plans to use the new funding to build out content and expand its presence in mobile and e-commerce.
Demand Media announced the promotion of Michael Blend to president and COO this afternoon. Blend replaces Charles Hilliard, who stepped down in June. Separately, the company broke even for the first time, with revenues up 17 percent.
Twitter wants a taste of the success Facebook is experiencing globally. For that to happen it needs to embed itself in the feature phone, the primary device used in developing markets to access the internet. So Twitter is following in Facebookâs footsteps by partnering with MediaTek.
RollUp, the niche publishing platform started by former DoubleClick, Brightcove and Demand Media executives, has signed a deal with US wellness network Everyday Health to take over the launch of new sites in Britain and Australia.
Forbes has been reinventing itself ever since it acquired Lewis DVorkin’s media startup in 2010 — and while there have been some stumbles, the magazine has shown how a traditional media entity can take advantage of the social web and the way that content works online.
It wasn’t that long ago that Google branded Demand Media a content farm and targeted it with its algorithmic pesticides. But the launch of eHow Pets on YouTube Wednesday shows that Demand has grown into one of Google’s more useful video content partners.
Journatic, a media startup that produces hyper-local content for newspapers, has been criticized as a “content farm.” But in an interview with GigaOM, founder Brian Timpone says not only his model more efficient than that of a newspaper, but it can actually help produce better journalism.
The Chicago Tribune has laid off most of its hyper-local unit and hired what some describe as a “content farm,” while other outlets are using content that is generated by algorithms. Is this the future of news, and if so should we be happy about it?
There are lots of events that enjoy near-universal attention from the media and the general public, such as the Super Bowl or the World Cup. But there’s only one kind of event that brings the most sophisticated live web-publishing tools to their knees: an Apple event.
Mobile users are spending more time glued to their smartphones, but advertisers have yet to figure out the best way to engage with those users. SessionM, a new startup from one of the founders of the company that led to Apple’s iAd, has a new idea.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) appears to be weathering executive churn and a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) downgrade. On Thursday, it posted earnings that…
Demand Media is known for churning lots of content through its sites, but today it’s notable for another churn, of the executive kind: three…
Broadcasting, publishing and marketing group Cox Media Group is putting down some more roots in digital media investments: it has announced…
Amid investor concerns that it is too dependent on low-grade freelance content and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) referrals, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) e…
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) may have pleased investors with better than expected (or less worse than expected) income losses, but the elements…
YouTube announced its long-anticipated major programming push late Friday, with channels due to start rolling out in November. Here’s the Yo…
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In addition to releasing its Q2 earnings today, content aggregator Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made two acquisitions: it’s bought a long-ru…
Not all internet IPOs are created equal.
A decade after the dot-com crash, sky-high internet company valuations are prompting a heated argu…
— Grantland: David Cho, co-founder and publisher of the website The Awl, is leaving and relocating to Los Angeles to join Bill Simmons’ Gra…
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), which told us earlier this year it would be bringing in a senior executive to oversee its mobile strategy, has hir…
For the first time, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) is putting a number on how Google’s changes to its search algorithm have impacted its sites, sa…
Traffic to some of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) sites may have fallen because of updates Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made to its search algorithm, b…
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) is launching three initiatives to change the mix of content it showcases on its sites: The so-called content farm,…
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In an effort to build engagement and increase video views across its properties, local TV news station owner Hearst has chosen Taboola for all its local TV stations sites to provide additional video suggestions for viewers reading stories or watching video on their websites.
Demand Media says the latest changes to Google’s algorithm aren’t a big deal, even though they pushed its eHow unit down by as much as 65 percent, according to some estimates — but the reality is that Google is both Demand’s biggest partner and its biggest threat.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) says changes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made to its search algorithm have in fact reduced traffic to its sites, including…
Definitely not a bad year to be a top Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) executive. The company, which expects to lose money this year, just doled out…
Web outfits hoping to become “the Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) of Europe”, look out. Demand is itself planning a European expansion this year.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has launched its latest celebrity backed site, the Tyra Banks’ beauty and fashion blog typeF this week, but the com…
Google is making it easier for users to block unwanted sites in their search results, ratcheting up the pressure on low quality content sites. The search giant is allowing users to hide or block sites from future search results right from within Google search.
Investors may be betting against “content farms” fortunes, if trends seen in Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) are anything to go by.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) has made its first acquisition since its initial public offering in January, purchasing popular live blogging tool…
Demand Media is acquiring CoverItLive, a live-blogging service that it has had a stake in since 2009, in what could be a sign that the company wants to expand into other areas of user-generated content that are less controversial than its “content farm” business.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), which launched Livestrong with Lance Armstrong and is on the verge of launching TypeF with Tyra Banks, has added a…
The growing consensus in the wake of Google’s move last week to change its search algorithm to penalize sites with low-quality content: Dema…
Google’s latest algorithm changes appear to be aimed directly at “content farms” such as Demand Media. Although the newly-public content company maintains that it won’t be affected by the changes, it seems obvious that Google is upping the ante in the content-farming game.
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-…
AOL’s recent acquisition of the Huffington Post for $315 million has centered a lot of attention on its content strategy â automating and standardizing content that attracts search-related advertising. While there are some clear benefits to this “content farm” approach to content, there are also significant disadvantages.
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) CEO Richard Rosenblatt used his company’s first earnings conference call as a public company in part to defend it a…
Reporting its first quarterly results since going public in late January, Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) said its sales during its fourth quarter…
The sale of The Huffington Post has some concerned we are entering an age of digital sharecropping, in which writers toil for nothing while landowners get rich. But all the web has really done is accelerate a phenomenon that has long existed in the media game.
Last month at DLD in Munich, in front of top execs from investor Burda, Jason Calacanis offered a fairly staid explanation for the decision…
Demand Media, which went public recently at a market value of $1.5 billion, has been under fire for the quality of the content that comes from its eHow division. Josh Hannah, who sold eHow to Demand in 2006, says the company faces a number of challenges.
Despite its success â or rather, because of it â Google has a growing battle on its hands, one that threatens to not only jeopardize its core search business, but also the advertising that flows from it. The battle pits the web giant and its legions of programmers against search-engine spam artists and content “farms” that regularly game the company’s algorithms. With competition from the likes of Facebook, Microsoft and a legion of smaller startups on the rise, cleaning the spam content from its results might be the best place for Google to devote its energies.
Demand Media may have announced a successful IPO, but that didnât quite dispel the air of controversy surrounding the company. But while Demand’s business model may be a little shaky, it’s worth monitoring for lessons in content creation efficiency and targeting, and for potential partnership opportunities.
When Demand Media floated earlier this week it started out at $17 a share, rocketed on first day trading to a high of $24, and even after fa…
Among the questions I got most often at the just-concluded DLD conference in Munich: What about Demand Media’s future following Google’s pub…
Demand Media’s stock jumped 33 percent on its first day of trading. As we reported yesterday, the company had already priced its shares at $…
Demand Media, which will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange tomorrow, has priced its shares at $17, according to an SEC filing. Th…
Google has responded to criticism about the declining quality of its results by saying it plans to come down hard on so-called “content farms” that try to game its algorithm with low-quality pages. That could mean pain for Demand Media, which is planning a closely-watched IPO.
A chorus of complaints about spammy results in Google searches highlights a growing problem the search company is going to have to solve — and doing so will inevitably bring it into conflict with Demand Media, currently planning a high-profile IPO for later this year.
In the aftermath of its filing for an initial public offering in August, Demand Media was roundly criticized for overstating its financial p…
The adventurous Jeff Dossett is changing paths again. The new gig: SVP for content partnerships at IPO-bound Demand Media, where he is repor…
Demand Media still isn’t saying how much it expects to raise in its initial public offering, but it is providing some more details about how…
Demand Media is feeling the glare of the spotlight as it prepares for an IPO expected to be in the $1.5-billion range. Its financial statements have drawn some red flags, there are concerns about its web traffic, and the quality of its content is being criticized.
In its IPO filing with regulators, paid-content producer Demand Media raises the possibility that Google could decide to use its knowledge of keyword ad trends to compete with the algorithm-driven content company. Google recently received a patent that relates to generating content based on search results.
Demand Media picked a Friday afternoon in August to file for its anticipated IPO. Some numbers from the SEC filing:
— Demand reports $114…
Freelance aggregator Demand Media (DM) has filed for an IPO, according to an SEC filing late Friday afternoon. The company lists a “maximum…
Demand Media, the paid-content company started by MySpace founder Richard Rosenblatt, has filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission that are the first step on the road to an initial public offering of shares that is expected to hit the market later this year.
An Internet security firm called KnujOn has released a report on illegal uses of the domain registration system that accuses Demand Media subsidiary eNom, one of the world’s largest domain registrars, of knowingly profiting from the sale of domain names to distributors of illegal pharmaceuticals.
Erika Nardini, the VP of brand packaging at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), announced her resignation today, sources tell us. At Yahoo, Nardini reported…
Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt, whose company is widely rumored to be headed for a billion-dollar IPO, has added Hollywood movie mogul Peter Guber to the board. Rosenblatt has also been playing tennis with the former studio head, and dining with him and other Hollywood stars.
Most four-year-olds celebrate with cake and ice cream. Demand Media, which marked its fourth anniversary over the weekend, hired high-profil…
Demand Media has been a controversial and high profile company from the start, not just because of its recent status as the biggest “content…
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 hist…
Just last month, Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt dismissed the idea of an IPO any time soon during an interview with paidContent. But th…
News organizations have always wrestled with the question of whether to give readers what they want or what they think readers should want.…
Hulu Sends Some Traffic To Level 3 and Limelight Networks; video content from Hulu historically came exclusively from Akamai, but lately, the…
While Demand Media and AOL’s Seed get all the press, Associated Content has been around longer and is larger than either one, with 250,000 contributors and two million pieces of content. But CEO Patrick Keane denies that it is running a “virtual sweatshop” or “content farm.”
C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web; C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet, including 23…
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…
It’s a tried-and-true tactic: in the face of criticism about quality and methods, enlist an advisory board of experts and/or respected figur…
Demand Media, a Los Angles-based company started by former Intermix/MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt has earned the scorn for its content factory approach. With $200 million in revenues and profits, Rosenblatt is laughing all the way to the bank. My notes from a conversation with Rosenblatt
Chip Meyers, founder of SciFi-based entertainment community Mania.com, has filed suit against Demand Media surrounding the company’s acquisi…
Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based online media company, is doing its first strategic investment: it is taking a minority stake in Coverit…
Do old media and new media have anything in common? Two nights ago I went to a dinner titled “The Future of…
Google today announced AdSense for games, a year after we first reported its intentions. Google has roped in game developers and publishers including Konami, Playfish, Zynga, Demand Media, games network Mochi Media. This new program would allow social games and flash-based web games to integrate video, text and image ads into the games.
Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based social media firm, is not in sale talks with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), contrary to rumors.
Yahoo execs Hila…
Lance Armstrong’s commercial health and wellness effort is seeing the light of the day, today: LiveStrong.com is being launched today in con…
Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based social and domain name media firm, has raised another $35 million in its fourth round of funding, accor…
Earlier this month, when Demand Media purchased Pluck, the price wasn’t disclosed. But judging from a comment made last night at a…
As we had reported first in January, online publishing tools company Pluck was close to being bought out and now the company is making it of…
Demand Media, the heavily capitalized Santa Monica-based online domain monetization and media company, has made an interesting turn: it has…
