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By: l6p.net :: Blog Archive :: Rumor Only - Yahoo Seeks To Acquire Demand Media

l6p.net :: Blog Archive :: Rumor Only - Yahoo Seeks To Acquire Demand Media — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:43:51 +0000

[...] Rumor Only – Yahoo Seeks To Acquire Demand Media TechCrunch ran a story this morning listing multiple sources for a rumor that Yahoo is actively trying to acquire Demand Media. With the credit market hurting, this might give Demand the ability to exit and Yahoo the ability to take over a highly powerful and profitable web based company whose roots are from the domain world.“Demand Media, founded by former MySpace CEO Richard Rosenblatt, has quietly grown into a pretty large business, with rumored revenues of around $250 million, and profitable. It just so happens that what Demand Media is good at – generating lots of advertising impressions and creating niche social networks for media sites, may be a perfect fit for at least some of what ails Yahoo.Which explains why Yahoo has approached Demand Media to acquire them in the last couple of weeks, say multiple sources close to the companies. The rumors started when someone spotted Yahoo’s new Head of U.S. Region Hilary Schneider leaving Demand Media’s offices in Santa Monica a couple of weeks ago. She was there, reportedly, to float the idea of an acquisition by the company, in the $1.5 – $2 billion range, say our sources. Scott Moore, who runs Yahoo’s content sites and is based in Southern California, has also reportedly been present at the meetings.”for the complete story click here [...]

By: led

led — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:22:12 +0000

well, what will yahoo do with demand media? yahoo is itself on sale. and it has also said no to microsoft. well the stories repeat themselves, don’t they?

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By: David Egel

David Egel — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:46:31 +0000

Well, Demand Media isn’t creating such great social networks. Infact, if you look at airliners.net, http://www.airliners.net/ you will see that many users have left the site or been purged since the acquisition of the site in the autumn of 2007. In order to see the Site Related, Demand Media has no made it so the general public cannot see it because it has gotten so heated. You can get a free photographers account and see Site Related for your self. It’s a mess. Purged users have created other sites that are rapidly growing in popularity one such site is http://www.airs...ne.com/asotalk/

Demand runs its websites like dictatorship states, purging users who dare disagree with them.

By: Yahoo! + Demand Media? | AdamDicker.com

Yahoo! + Demand Media? | AdamDicker.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:29:38 +0000

[...] I wanted to get this snippet up on the site before it was completely stale. As previously seen on Tech Crunch , Yahoo was rumored to be courting Demand Media, and Demand wants a truckload of cash. . . ie. [...]

By: Yahoo! + Demand Media? | Domain Name News

Yahoo! + Demand Media? | Domain Name News — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:53:44 +0000

By: David E Y Sarna

David E Y Sarna — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:52:28 +0000

The GoogleGazer blog (http://googlegazer.com) takes a look at the big three (Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo) and concludes that Yahoo will be sold; they are merely haggling over the price. Substantial change is seen over the next few years and the Internet evolves from being browser-centric to “cloud-based,” supporting all manner of new handheld, industrial, and home devices. I think that Demand Media would be smart to sell out, but Yahoo would be ill-advised to buy it, as it’s whole reason for being may soon evaporate.

By: Oliver's Stuff » Which explains why Yahoo has approached Demand Media to acquire them in...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:17:15 +0000

[...] and is based in Southern California, has also reportedly been present at the meetings. — Techcrunch: Yahoo! interested in Demand Media July 11 @ 03:14 AM | Comments | Tags: demandmedia, yahoo, [...]

By: Karl Eckersley

Karl Eckersley — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:41:52 +0000

This is clever spin from Yahoo, they’re saying to MS ‘look, we’re happy to do things alone’.
Microsoft will own Yahoo! by this time next year.

By: Roundup: IT spend trending down, Google’s next move, our many privacy issues, and more » VentureBeat

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:28:04 +0000

[...] Internet’s most heavily-funded companies, may be on Yahoo’s acquisition radar, reports TechCrunch. One small problem: Demand don’t wanna sell, at least according to All Things D. Were the [...]

By: kiko

kiko — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:43:04 +0000

A head of US region and manager of content sites are out scouting acquisitions of a company that is 90% revenues from domain sales and registrations?
More likely pitching the Pluck platform that they are already providing to other publishers. Why would a company on its death bed buy another whole company full of business units it doesn’t understand, to get a social template plug-in just like the one used by everyone else?

This is like the Madonna spin. Her manager is ARod’s manager so he gets her great seats to take her kid to a game. That means she’s fucking him and converting his faith to a cult.

Too funny.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:19:08 +0000

Traffic from demand has a poor conversion rate. Advertisers will not spend huge amounts of $ for that traffic.

By: mathew johnson

mathew johnson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:41:57 +0000

demand is most likely to ipo – rather than get acquired – they’re not a disruptive technology company – just a good findamental business – it won’t be a moonshot ipo – but as noted by mike and others – they are a real company with real revenue and real growth in the internet space – and that is not particularly common.

By: senior media buyer

senior media buyer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:11:45 +0000

I ran a test with Demand and was unimpressed. I didn’t see anything that differentiated them from the dozens of other “2nd tier” ad networks. $1+ billion valuation seems really unrealistic to me. Of course I thought that adify at $300M, blue lithium at $300M were both overpriced.

By: KillerLocator.com

KillerLocator.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:38:07 +0000

ever look at the domain portfolio of demand?

eNom.com
eNomCentral.com
ChannelME.TV
Airliners.net
Answerbag.com
eHow.com
GreenCar.com
ExpertVillage.com
SoYouWanna.com
Allgetaways.com
GardenGuides.com
Golflink.com
Mountainzone.com
Runtheplanet.com
Run.com
Trails.com
Cracked.com
DailyPuppy.com
DemandStudios.com
Flowgo.com
Madblast.com
Demand Games
Arcadetown.com
Casesladder.com
Freewebgames.com
Gamedelight.com
Gamerival.com
Grab.com
Heavygames.com
MyLeague.com

i would hate to see the other names in there portfolio if this is the cream of the crop. appears to be a mix and match mumbo jumbo and does not make alot of sense as a network. my common sense tells me it would be better having a vast multi-channel family network of strategic keyphrase vertical domain channels to better integrate content and user experience.

more on KillerLocator.com
http://www.kill...locator-network

more on Demand Media
http://vator.tv...ow/demand-media

By: Is Yahoo looking at Demand Media? — Scott Fish

Is Yahoo looking at Demand Media? — Scott Fish — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:33:38 +0000

[...] Demand Media is banking about $250 Million per year, which would create a valuation of between $1.5-2 Billion, according to tech crunch. [...]

By: James Barclay

James Barclay — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:31:18 +0000

what a racket – demand media is a deck of cards about to implode.who’s watch will it be under..? Yahoo, Google….here is the play – rosenblatt gets in touch with old mates such as armstrong – still under suspicion for steroid abuse – and uses their names to start so to speak social communities – in reality he has his staff at DM ask themselves questions on his chosen sites and then answer it aswell – this happens to alot of companies in the all difficult stage of getting off the ground, but none get given ridiculous evaluations of 3 billion……

If its anything like how rosenblatt played Verysign, got his mate to plug .tv for five minutes and thats the last we heard from the exciting duet……

By: Search Engine Workshops

Search Engine Workshops — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:07:02 +0000

Congrats to Richard. Here is a great video interview we did with him at PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas – http://www.reac...om/ViewBlog/97/
Steve

By: A_______

A_______ — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:02:54 +0000

HA! These guys wont even return phone calls or emails on any of my 12 requests to buy ads on their sites. They only run Adsense and other PPC crap and you think they are worth a B or 3 b’s?

OK I like their business but the reality is that the avg CPM is less than $1 and that does not translate into profits this quick.

By: SM

SM — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:01:25 +0000

Rebecca A. / Falafulu Fisi – you guys are clearly clueless about Internet traffic / Domain space…Direct navigation accounts from anywhere 17-21% of GLOBAL internet traffic and has x2 the conversion rate compared to product & search related engines. Want more data points?

- Average direct navigation traffic grew at a 35%+ compounded annual
growth rate (CAGR) between 2002-2006.
- Two-thirds of the world’s 1+ billion Internet users arrive at web
sites via direct navigation which accounts for 6-9% of PAID search market

Ronnie — see my comment above, even if Google kills indexing of parked pages the type-in traffic is still there and it’s KING… Always other ways to monetize similar to what MCHX is doing..

As for Broadcast.com analogy let’s stick to comparing apples to apples…Let’s not forget Demand Media owns Enom in April 06 and Bulkregister in July 06. As I said, before you comment away do some basic research…

By: Ben Watson

Ben Watson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:45:13 +0000

This proves that the search engines actually support abritrage. Neither Google nor Yahoo! have ever agreed to stop spidering them, so we all end up following the links to the pages.

Basically, the search engines are getting placed, paid search results right in the organic search results, and using the third party relationship (until this acquisition) to justify the continued existence of dead ends regardless of the poor user experience. If Yahoo! would move to acquire or even drop by for a visit then they are obviously loving this revenue stream.

The results of activity like this is garbage basically. Ringtones, porn, toner cartridges, mortgage scams, grey market software, torrent sites, etc are frequent participants.

Rise above, people….

By: FX

FX — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:30:21 +0000

Demand is not for sale
http://kara.all...r-now/?mod=mktw

By: nathhh

nathhh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:35 +0000

yahoo will probably go with this deal…but microsoft will buy them

Nath
http://www.them...rfulcompany.com

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:25:04 +0000

Do you think Yahoo is trying to build value? in order to be more appealing to Microsoft (and get a higher valuation). I don't think they are serious about continuing alone... or are they?

By: ronnie

ronnie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:40:31 +0000

tax returns will not show mike’s customers …$250 million is real seriuos revenue and exactly what oversee.net does and they have a $1 to $2 billion valuation or more as well….both stupid business and dumb overpaid people but it undeniably works…artibtrage is real on the web, until a regulation kills the domain buying and squatting fad or google decides not to spider these pages, as they are not relevant, which should happen sometime, better sell out now if that’s the main revenue generator you have