Richard Rosenblatt

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
Demand Media

Rosenblatt, who co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, has built, operated and sold numerous Internet media companies with a combined value of more than $1.3 billion. Most recently, he served as chief executive officer of Intermix Media, and chairman of MySpace. He was part of a team that helped grow MySpace from an unknown Web site until its acquisition by News Corporation in October 2005 for $650 million. A Southern California native, Rosenblatt holds a BA from UCLA and a JD from USC Law School.

Posts With Richard Rosenblatt

Now, Breathe: Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectation in Q3

Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

The online social content company did better than expected in the recent quarter, but it still has to prove its model has more lucrative legs.

What Answers Will Investors Be Demand-ing in the Q3 Call Today?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 7, 2011 at 6:13 am PT

With its stock reeling and some traffic issues, it’s been a tough quarter for the social content company.

Demand Media Q2 Call Liveblog: Spam-a-Not

Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT

Rachael Ray might dole out spam recipes on Demand Media, but the company said on its Q2 conference call that its business was not hurt by the spam-killers of Google.

Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

Kara Swisher in Social on June 13, 2011 at 11:28 am PT

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be. That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities after leaving Myspace.

Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT

Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

Demand Media Beats the Street in Q1 Earnings and Promises to Clean Up Its Content Act

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed. The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income. Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits. On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.

Kung Fu Panda Too? Demand Media Q1 Earnings All About Battling the Bears

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 6:06 am PT

Later today, Demand Media will report its first-quarter earnings, its second outing after its IPO earlier this year. But what most will be paying more mind to will be what the content company’s top execs have to say about the impact of search algorithm updates at Google–codenamed “Panda”–to its various Web offerings.

The Bull Case for Demand Media–And Why Wall Street May Not Buy It

Peter Kafka in Media on April 29, 2011 at 11:25 am PT

Demand Media says reactions to Google’s algorithm changes have been overblown, and at least one Wall Street analyst believes it. But what if Google’s not done making changes?

Demand Media About Latest Google Algo Impact: Move on, Nothing to See Here

Kara Swisher in News on April 17, 2011 at 11:29 pm PT

Tonight, Demand Media–in reaction to a new study showing that its flagship eHow site had now gotten much more negatively impacted by Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm than previously–released a statement and blog post about the tempest. The content maker’s unsurprising verdict on itself: We’re okay, thanks for asking!

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