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Demand Media Sets IPO Pricing Range

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Demand Media's IPO efforts have been one of the closest watched activities in the Southern California technology industry, as an indicator of the IPO prospects for other technology companies here. Demand Media runs such sites as LiveStrong and eHow, along with a network of other media and content focused sites.

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Demand Media Hires Ad Sales Head

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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. The firm said that Stewart will build a sales team to increase sales revenue of Demand's eHow, Trails.com, Cracked, Livestrong.com, and other web sites.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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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. eHow Spark! eHow is still our largest customers, Livestrong is still an important customer.

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Getting Your Internet Company Bought - Startups Uncensored #6

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This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. Shawn created the original concept for Demand Media and executed the simultaneous acquisitions of eNom, eHow and several domain-name portfolios which launched the company. Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium) 601 Santa Monica Blvd.

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Making Money on YouTube | Audience First, Cash Second

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For me, VidCon is already too big, having gone for 3 years now, but it’s crazy to think most of these big media companies are seeing the YouTube cultural fan phenomenon for the first time. This year they were accompanied by large companies such as Kia, YouTube, Bravo, Dolby, Intel and Taco Bell.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. How did the company start? That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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How to Save MySpace

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I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. Think eHOW or About. Court Star Power.