From: Beet.TV on Sat, Aug 07 2010 2:27 PM

Los Angeles-based Demand Media is preparing to go public, according to financial filings made pubic on Friday. The company is in the business of content "farming" — creating print, photo and video content for newspapers and magazines.  The content is primarily lifestyle focused. ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jun 11 2010 12:32 PM

Akamai, the world’s largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites.  There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network, up 233 percent from the normal demand at this time. Th...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 15 2010 8:52 PM

Los Angeles-based Demand Media, the fast-growing Web content company, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an IPO, reports Ken Li of the Financial Times.  Li writes that the IPO could come as early as August. Earlier this year, we spoke with Steven Kydd, Executive VP of Demand Studios.  H...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Feb 22 2010 10:09 PM

Demand Media, the Los Angeles-based media start-up with a network of 7,000 content creators, uses YouTube as its primary publishing platform and it now has had one billion views, Shawn Colo, co-founder, told me on Friday. I spoke with him at the paidContent 2010 conference where he appe...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Feb 07 2010 10:48 PM

Demand Media, the fast growing creator of  instructional online text and video content, has a huge backlog of assignments:  some 150,000 assignments waiting for a network of 7,000 freelance writers, editors and videographers to undertake, according to Steven Kydd, Executive VP of  Demand Studios...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Oct 26 2009 9:38 AM

Richards Rosenblatt, the former CEO of MySpace who launched his network of Web properties titled under Demand Media, has a big hit with eHow, a video site providing "how-to" instructional videos. According to this story and video by USA Today’s Jefferson Graham, eHow has some 52 million...