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AUGUST 8, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported a steep drop in revenues for the last quarter, saying that it had $89.8M According to Demand Media, the drops were the result of a 24 percent decline in content and media revenue, which came despite a slight increase in traffic. demand media content traffic revenues'

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MARCH 11, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said today that it has linked with Electus Digital , to offload premium ad sales for its Cracked.com website. According to the two, Electus Digital will now offer exclusive premium ad sales representation for Cracked.com, including custom branded content and "high-impact" ad units on the site.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the publisher of online content, said late Tuesday that it is changing its advertising strategy to exclusively focus on premium programmatic ads. The company said the move will result in the elimination of its premium display salesforce. Terms of that deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it has linked up with Healthline , a provider of health information and technology, in a digital advertising partnership. demand media healthline health healthy advertising online livestrong' Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 2, 2011

Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, told its users today that it is gearing up to launch a new, spin-off website for its social media contest platform. No other details of the new effort were announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported its second quarter 2012 financial results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that both its revenues and pageviews grew from year to year. Demand Media said it had total revenues of $93.1M

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc.

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JULY 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, is targeting a blog which has been posting internal documents and criticism of the company. The site appears to have been created by an unhappy, freelance contributor to Demand Media in May of 2010.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, has inked a partnership with outdoor retailer REI. The companies announced the deal today. Trails.com is Demand Media's online adventure site, providing trail guides, topographic maps, articles, and other outdoors-related content.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said today in an S-1 filing that it expects its IPO to be between $14.00 Demand Media runs such sites as LiveStrong and eHow, along with a network of other media and content focused sites. and $16.00

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, announced its first quarter 2012 results yesterday, and also raised its fiscal 2012 financial guidance. Demand Media said it now expects full year 2012 revenues to be between $361.0M to $367.0M. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities.

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported its results Thursday, saying that it had a net loss of $5.6 Demand Media said the revenues numbers were driven by continued momentum from its owned and operated sites. The results are the first as a public company for Demand, since its IPO in January. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said Sunday that it is reaffirming its financial outlook for fiscal year 2011. Demand Media said that that report "significantly overstated" the negative impact of those Google changes. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt and which runs such sites as LIVESTRONG.com and eHow , said today along with image licensing firm Getty Images , that the two are in a joint licensing deal. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, is expected to hit the public markets late next week, according to a report today from AllThingsD. Demand Media priced its IPO on January 12th, saying it hopes to debut on the NYSE at between $14.00 and $16.00 and $16.00

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Santa Monica-based Leaf Group , the publicly traded consumer Internet company best known for running such sites as Saatchi Art, Society6, EHow, and Livestrong, said it is looking to offer and sell approximately $22M in shares of its common stock. Leaf Group was last known as Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The company, led by founder Evan Britton, publishes information on celebrities, including actors, singers, and social media stars. The company says it is now seeing over 900,000 visits a day on its site, and has 24 full time employees in its Santa Monica offices. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said late Tuesday evening that it has priced its IPO, as well as increased its IPO offering size, and will sell 8,900,000 shares of its common stock at $17.00 UBS Securities LLC, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Inc., Morgan Stnaley & Co.,

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Santa Monica-based virtual reality content developre Jaunt , and Santa Monica-based online food and travel lifestyle content provider Tastemade said today that the two have tied together for a new, virtual-reality trip through Los Angeles, featuring Ryan Seacrest and Conan O'Brien, along with a host of others.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media is inching closer to its IPO debut, saying in an updated S-1 this morning that it plans to offer 7.5 The firm also said it now has over 13,000 content creators working for the firm, creating articles for the company. Tags: demand media merger acquisition content internet ehow.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2013

Santa Monica-based online car information and shopping site Edmunds.com said this week that it has launched its first ever, national television ad campaign. The company said the campaign--which launched on Christmas day--will be featured during NBA programming on ABC and ESPN. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-baesd online art site Saatchi Art 0--part of Demand Media--said Thursdya that it has launched a new, mobile app that lets users use virtual reality to see how a piece of art might look like on their wall. Do you wish you could see what that artwork you want to buy might look like on your wall at home?

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JULY 18, 2012

Santa Monica-based eHow , the online advice and information site owned by Demand Media, is targeting mothers with a new channel, the company said today. eHow said it already is seeing around 14 million mothers visiting the site a month. The channel actually launched in May. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today.

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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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MARCH 31, 2010

Los Angeles-based Break.com and Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media announced Wednesday afternoon that the two firms have partnered on the launch of a new site, called ModernMan.com. According to the two firms, the new site will focus on grooming advice, style tips, and product information and review for men 18-39.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Have a look at the companies below.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Despite the economy, Southern California's high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. Some positions posted to the site recently: Sr. Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media, has updated the firm's MyPlate lifestyle management tool, the company announced this morning. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing website headed by Scott Painter, has added "Black Book" used car values to the site. According to the company, the new values come via an agreement with National Auto Research , a division of Hearst Business Media.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. Among other gaining sites were ProFlowers.com, which had a surge of 412 percent in uniques, to 5.3

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has signed a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to give Katz access to its inventory of premium display ads, the firms announced today. Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. READ MORE>>

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