Mediagazer: Wall Street Welcomes the Content Farm: Demand Media Supersizes Its IPO (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

1:10 PM ET, January 26, 2011

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Wall Street Welcomes the Content Farm: Demand Media Supersizes Its IPO — Demand Media has given skeptics plenty to chew on over the last six months: Accounting issues to hash out with the Feds; weird noises from Google, which it depends on; and debates about what “profitable” means.

Discussion: Money & Company, Mixed Media, SAI, AdAge, Deal Journal and CJR, more at Techmeme »

Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:

Demand Media shares soar 34% in IPO — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Shares of online content creator Demand Media rose 34% in early trading Wednesday, raising $66.5 million for the company in an IPO that valued Demand at more than $1 billion. — The offering included 8.9 million shares …

Discussion: Poynter and Exile On Wall Street

Lynn Cowan / Dow Jones Newswires:
Demand Media 8.9M-Share IPO Prices At $17 Each, Above Range

Discussion: paidContent, Wall Street Journal, Black Web 2.0, @pkedrosky, VatorNews and The Wire

Tom Junod / Esquire:

Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 1 — TALENT SCOUT /// “I thought Glenn at Headline News was not doing what he could do. I thought Bill O'Reilly at Inside Edition was not doing what he could do. I thought Sean Hannity on radio — good-looking guy, why not put him on television?

Discussion: FishbowlNY, The Atlantic Wire, Yahoo! News, Ben Smith's Blog and New York Magazine

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:

Dear commenters, Steve Doocy is reading — One of the themes of the Esquire profile of Roger Ailes, with which Ailes cooperated, is that Ailes reads ever word written about him. — You might think that was an exaggeration. But apparently he does, or someone over on Sixth Avenue does.

Discussion: Mediaite, @tolles and Swampland

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

News Corp. Showdown: Roger Ailes vs. Rupert Murdoch's Kids — Lachlan Murdoch. Image by Getty Images via @daylife — Rupert Murdoch turns 80 in less than two months, and he's finally acting like it. According to The Daily Beast's Peter Lauria, the News Corp. chairman is moving toward …

Discussion: The Wire, VentureBeat, Gawker, MediaPost, The Wire and Runnin' Scared

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Analysis: The Internet Stole Obama's State of the Union From Cable News — A reliable producer of big ratings for cable news networks for decades, the President's annual State of the Union address on Tuesday seemed to mark a turning point in which media delivery of the event …

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser, CNN, Tuned In, New York Observer and LA Observed

Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
National Journal Skirts Embargo, Posts Full Text Of Obama's State …

Discussion: The Wrap, Gawker, Yahoo! News and On Media's Blog

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:
The Most Tech-Enhanced SOTU Yet

Discussion: Esquire, Sunlight Foundation Blog, The Daily Beast and On Media's Blog

NetNewsCheck Latest:

Newspaper Site Generate Big Traffic In Q4 — Newspaper sites generated an average monthly audience of over 105 million unique visitors — 62% of all adult Internet users — during the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a study from comScore and the Newspaper Association of America.

Erik Sass / MediaPost:
Newspaper Web Sites Reach 62% of Online Population

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

David Kaplan / paidContent:

After 25 Years, Village Voice Publisher Cohen Steps Down — Village Voice Publisher Michael Cohen is preparing to exit the free alt-weekly after nearly 25 years. He'll be replaced by Village Voice Media veteran Josh Fromson, who is currently publisher of the SF Weekly.

Discussion: Market Wire, Poynter, New York Observer, FishbowlNY and @edmundlee

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:

Twitter Tests Self-Serve Ad Platform — Twitter has begun testing a self-serve ad platform with advertisers and agencies it plans to roll out in the first half of this year, and MediaPost got a glimpse. — Clix Marketing Founder David Szetela began supporting a handful of clients this week.

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, ReadWriteWeb, SAI and MediaMemo, more at Techmeme »

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

Journalism's Subterranean Saviors — The iPhone will become available for Verizon customers in a few days, and New York City should steel itself for a pedestrian population more app-enabled and more dangerously distracted than ever. But the subway is another thing entirely.

Discussion: mediabistro.com

New York Post:

Talent raid? — Eyes at MSNBC have shifted to CNN's Roland Martin to fill a hole in their evening news lineup since the exit of 8 p.m. gasbag Keith Olbermann. We hear Martin's name has been brought up to take over the 6 p.m. time slot that was anchored by Ed Schultz.

Discussion: TVWeek.com and Chickaboomer

Sam Gustin / Epicenter:

From Newsweek to Nomad: Media Banker Launches iPad ‘Weeklies’ Platform — Former Newsweek president Mark Edmiston is launching a new digital suite of publications designed for iPads and other mobile devices called Nomad Editions. — Edmiston, a veteran New York City magazine executive …

Raphael G. Satter / Associated Press:

AP Interview:WikiLeaks seeking more media partners — LONDON - WikiLeaks hopes to enlist as many as 60 news organizations from around the world in a bid to help speed the publication of its massive trove of secret U.S. diplomatic memos, the site's founder said Tuesday.

Discussion: Big News Network.com, Noted, The Nation and Jon Slattery

Guardian:

Tags are magic! - Part 3 — In part three of this series of posts based on a presentation given at last year's Online Information conference in London, the Guardian's tag manager Peter Martin and information architect Martin Belam look at how we keep our tags useful for the audience, and in line with house style

Discussion: @mthomps

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Real Blogs Don't Have Interstitial Ads — Hey, if I dish it out, I have to be able to take it, too. And take it today I have. We've put up this ridiculous interstitial ad here on TechCrunch that appears the first time you visit the site. — It's an ad for Dell.

Discussion: Gawker and @jayrosen_nyu