Posts Tagged ‘Richard Rosenblatt’

Although there are several silver linings in the fourth quarter 2011 results released by content firm Demand Media, the bottom line is that the six-year-old outfit is still reeling from changes made last spring to Google’s search algorithms. The Silicon Valley giant’s much publicized adjustments, nicknamed “Panda,” chunked out 25 percent of Demand’s Web traffic and four-fifths of its stock price.

LA Times reporter Alex Pham chatted with Demand co-founder and CEO Richard Rosenblatt (pictured) in the wake of these Q4 numbers. The executive outlined how the company hopes to continue rebounding:

Among Demand’s initiatives: a greater emphasis on videos and photos, as well as the type of content such as humor that’s more likely to be shared on social networks such as Facebook.

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Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt is cooking with gas on all fronts these days, in a way that has nothing to do with the step-by-step intructional piece posted on company website eHow.com.

In February, he laid out a cool $26 million for a Brentwood Country Estates mansion next door to Tom Brady and Giselle Bündchen‘s future abode. Q2 profits for his company have exceeded analyst expectations. And today, he has not one but two acquisition news releases hitting the wire. In addition to purchasing advertising firm IndieClick, Demand Media has also acquired local Facebook application developers RSSGraffiti:

“With the help of RSS Graffiti’s skilled engineering team, we intend to rapidly add new features that will make this useful product even more valuable to publishers and brands,” said Rosenblatt. “As a cornerstone of our social publishing strategy, RSS Graffiti enables us to partner with a large and growing number of Facebook publishers.”

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Well isn’t this a pleasant surprise? Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt sent out a tweet this morning asking for experienced feature writers. Demand Media is a notorious content farmer, paying writers according to the amount of hits their stories get around $5 to $20 a post–so at first we didn’t pay it much attention. But then we saw on Romensko that Rosenblatt plans to really pay these writers he’s looking for. Pay them…like…actual money.

From Demand Media’s job listing:

Demand Media has introduced new payment rates for feature stories. Features writers earn up to $350 for their stories, depending on factors like the experience required to write the story, the complexity of the topic and length of the story. Like all creative professionals who work for Demand Media, feature writers are paid within two business days of their articles being approved by Demand Media’s editorial staff.

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50 Cent: Not the rapper, the price tag. In the face of cuts and other awful things, Steve Lopez reminds readers what they’re getting for 50 cents: “Although that money doesn’t buy you the same-size staff that was in place when I arrived seven years ago, those two quarters still buy you the biggest, best, most ambitious news-gathering operation west of the Hudson River.”

In Demand: Want to know how to make money off of articles, images and videos? Richard Rosenblatt, a guy you’ve probably never heard of, figured it out. “With blinding speed and little notice, Rosenblatt’s 2-year-old Demand Media Inc. has become one of the largest buyers of articles and video clips for the Web. It expects revenue of nearly $200 million this year and, more surprisingly, a healthy profit.”

YouTube, YouWin!: From Jessica Guynn: “Google said late Monday that it has reached a deal with Viacom to protect the privacy of tens of millions of YouTube viewers. A judge had ordered Google, YouTube’s corporate parent, to hand over user data as part of the $1-billion copyright infringement case brought by Viacom.”