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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media surged in its IPO debut Wednesday morning on the NYSE, rising as high as $25.00 Demand Media, which is headed by Richard Rosenblatt, operates a network of content focused sites, including LiveStrong.com and eHow. Demand Media is now trading on the NYSE as DMD.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet publishing and content effort run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported today that the firm has seen more than one billion video streams across its network of sites and branded YouTube channels. Tags: demand media video content publishing youtube. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.

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MAY 22, 2013

In a move to attract e-commerce companies to its content delivery network, Santa Monica-based EdgeCast announced today that it has launched a new, PCI-compliant product specifically aimed at online retailers. edgecast ecommerce transact content delivery network' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Xfire , the online social networking and chat service aimed at gamers, said this morning that it is making it easier for users to capture and share videos of their game play, and post it on a YouTube channel. Xfire said it already has over 5.5 million videos captured using its social app. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. For additional verticals, we'll expand that through additional acquisition or through organic sites launched internally. What verticals are you thinking about?

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content. In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments.

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MARCH 4, 2021

We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. The demand is there. We could have raised more, but apparently, we crashed SeedInvest's entire site on the last day of the campaign. You no longer have to be an investor in a giant venture capital fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. It even simplifies finding recipes on the web by searching all of the major recipe sites and showing the nutrition for those recipes right in the search results. Where: Wokcano 1413 5th Street Santa Monica, CA.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. It's so much more than that, but that crystallizes the key thing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. That same team founded the popular site Buzznet, which became BuzzMedia and is now known as SpinMedia.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip.

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