Comments on: If Yahoo's Going Social, Is Demand Media Back on Its Dance List?

By: Rise of the Machines: Why Demand Media Is Worth More Than the New York Times « Tech7.Net

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:36:47 +0000

[...] is why Demand is constantly floated as a potential acquisition candidate for the likes of Yahoo (YHOO), at price tags of $1.5 billion or more. Investors, who bid up Times stock a bit after the [...]

By: Rise of the Machines: Why Demand Media is Worth More Than the New York Times | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:01:17 +0000

By: Steven Kane

Steven Kane — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:18:03 +0000

Run that one by me again?

The company raised $350 million… to create a concern generating $150 million revenues, and maybe maybe profitable?

OUCH.

And how in the world does that justify an acquisition at all, let alone a price tag of $1.5-$3 billion?

10X-20X revenues? what are you smokin’? Yahoo itself is only trading at 2.5X revenues. Heck, Google trades at 5X revenues!

Great rumor. Poor story.

By: Afternoon Reading: Banks Are Profitable Now? What Did We Miss? | Blogoboro.com Blogs

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:40:37 +0000

[...] Is Yahoo mulling an acquisition of Demand Media? Kara Swisher takes a look. [...]

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links for 2009-04-09 » Alex Jones — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:01:20 +0000

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By: If Yahoo’s Going Social, Is Demand Media in their CrossHairs? « Roman Bills - Internet Marketing Pro

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:14:45 +0000

[...] According to Swisher, Rosenblatt has wanted to take the company public, but he is also interested in reviving major players like Yahoo and AOL. – Read the whole story… [...]

By: Jaque Hass

Jaque Hass — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:04:44 +0000

I find it hard to belive that they are profitable. Here is why:

1) They run Google Ad Sense on 95% of their sites
2) They do not respond to requests from advertisers. (Heard this from multiple parties)
3) Their traffic numbers are highly inflated. (they lay claim to figures that are not inline with 3rd party rankings)

Owning their own properties makes their profit a bit higher but the vast majority of their sites are losing traffic or remaining steady. (look at GolfLink.com for an example of this).

They should have taken the $ last year and closed up shop. Now eCPM’s are 50% of what they were and their inventory is decreasing. Video may help this but they arent exactly selling out their video ad units are they…

By: Finance Geek » Former Yahoo Joins Ad Startup

Finance Geek » Former Yahoo Joins Ad Startup — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:19:23 +0000

[...] Yahoo could spend $1.5 billion-plus on Demand Media [AllThingsD] [...]