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

Ten Things About Me

Eleven Things About Demand Media’s Richard Rosenblatt

in Ten Things About Me on May 18 at 2:08 pm PT

Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt is perennially upbeat, and today, at least, he’s got good cause.
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Demand Media’s Q1 Earnings: Kung-Goog Panda Did Not Kill Us!

in News on May 8 at 2:16 pm PT

Take that, Po.
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Exclusive: The Billion-Dollar Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn’t)

in News on April 28 at 11:02 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private for double its current value.
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Demand Media Beats Expectations Slightly in Q4 Report; Buying Back More Stock; CEO: “Turbulent Year”

in News on February 16 at 1:32 pm PT

Demand makes its numbers, as Wall Street scrutinizes the online content company’s traffic and costs.
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Now, Breathe: Demand Media Beats Wall Street Expectation in Q3

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

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.
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Demand Media Q2 Call Liveblog: Spam-a-Not

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

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.
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Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Google Attacks! And Demand Media Investors Yawn

in Media, February 25, 2011 at 8:08 am PT

Google's Content Farming: Good for Consumers or Good for PR?

in News, February 25, 2011 at 1:02 am PT

Demand Responds to Google Content Purge

in News, February 25, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Liveblogging Demand Media's (and Richard Rosenblatt's) First Earnings Call: The Avocado Difference!

in News, February 22, 2011 at 2:08 pm PT

Demand Media's First Earnings Report Includes an Actual Profit

in Media, February 22, 2011 at 1:33 pm PT

Google Tweaks Search Results To Punish "Scrapers"

Demand Media Says It's Getting Along Just Fine With Google, Thank You Very Much

in Media, January 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

You Can Ring Its Bell: Demand Media Heads to Wall Street Next Week

in News, January 20, 2011 at 6:04 am PT

Apple's Jobs Tops BoomTown's 10 Most Fascinating Techies in 2010 Survey

in News, January 3, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

More Yahoo Deal Scenarios Keep the Goat Rodeo Going Strong!

in News, November 9, 2010 at 8:29 am PT