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AUGUST 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the social media firm headed by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has made a minority investment in Toronto-based CoveritLive. Tags: demand media coveritlive venture capital social blogging. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 22, 2009

Demand Media , the well funded online media firm run by former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has a new solution to the recent doom, gloom, and stress brought on by the economy: a new iPhone app it is calling " The Daily Puppy." 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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OCTOBER 16, 2019

The newly combined companies will operate under a new umbrella organization, Whip Media Group. Rosenblatt was previously CEO of Demand Media, and also had been Chairman of MySpace. Whip Media originally got its start as WhipClip, an app which had allowed users to share their favorite TV clips.

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APRIL 22, 2011

comScore shows Santa Monica-based Demand Media as the highest rank Southern California firm, with 76.5M Fox Interactive Media , which includes MySpace , was ranked at 19 with 55.9 unique visitors, ranked at number 12. million unique visitors. million unique visitors. million unique visitors. uniques.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

SheKnows was ranked number 49 on the list; other local companies ranked among the top 50 include Internet Brands (50), Demand Media (16), BUZZMEDIA (38), Disney Online (30), Break Media (31), and MySpace (44). READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2015

Rosenblatt has been behind many of LA's biggest technology startups, including both MySpace and Demand Media. 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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JULY 22, 2010

Not yet filed, but rumored to be filing for an IPO is Demand Media , the online media venture of Richard Rosenblatt, the former Chairman of MySpace.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media 's LIVESTRONG.com web site, the online health and fitness information web site run in conjunction with Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has rolled out a new 'Calorie Tracker' aplication for the RIM BlackBerry. Demand Media is run by Richard Rosenblatt, who was the chairman of MySpace.

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MAY 18, 2011

They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

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MAY 8, 2009

According to Demand Media , Armstrong will provide twice-daily updates on the event from Livestrong, and will also feature videos, blog posts, and other updates on the event. The site is jointly run by Demand Media and Armstrong, and focuses on health and wellness topics. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2009

Panelists scheduled to attend the event include hiring representatives from Disney ABC Television Group, Warner Brothers, MySpace, Demand Media, CyberCoders, NeoHire and more. A panel of top hiring managers from successful companies will be advising attendees on the best practices of getting a job in this unique economy.

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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. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. He was named in a recent Forbes article as one of "12 Entrepreneurs That Are Changing LA Forever."

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. You can register for the event at Digital Family Reunion.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

I became friends with Tom Anderson and I jumped onto MySpace when it first launched. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. I left MySpace in 2008 to help MySpace to monetize its inventory better. It is really important to be connected to social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. He created demand. He was riveting. But he was street smart and hustled.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing. We really believe in the market.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. You suddenly need to enhance your in-house social media efforts with a public relations firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million. He built & IPOd Demand Media. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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MARCH 24, 2010

We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Brandon Hance: Two in particular do on-demand, Cafepress and Zazzle. It represents a tremendous opportunity.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We built this to support corporate portals--companies that have a corporate presence on the web--but also see that social networks like MySpace or Facebook could use this technology to allow users at their site to communicate in their native language with other users. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

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MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. What is happening in L.A. today that drives the startup community?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook. And there it was – MySpace was growing at the exact time we all had cheap digital cameras, smartphones with cameras and new, cheap video cameras like the Flip that allowed us to create video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. I’m sure that you have all seen how quickly business momentum can shift, as from MySpace to Facebook, or more recently in the explosive growth of Amazon and e-commerce compared to retail.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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