Demand Media’s Q1 Revenue Beats The Street; Up 48 Percent To $79.5 Million.
By now, you’ve read about Demand Media’s results– they beat analyst’s estimates. Calendar Q2 2011 will be much tougher though.
There’s some good data in their filing– RPMs and revenue per domain. They grew their RPMs from around $10 to $15 on owned and operated sites. For their network business, RPMs declined a bit but are around $2-3. Revenue per domain is about $10 per domain– no surprises.
Overall, +1 to Demand Media for this transparency.

Ahead of an as-yet-uncertain release date, AOL is teasing an upcoming iPad app that's designed to deliver news in a new, interactive way. By working out what content you like, Editions whisks everything into a slick magazine-style interface. Can it challenge existing apps like Flipboard, and help return AOL to relevance?
The early promos are no doubt a way to encourage excitement and to lead to more downloads--and AOL just might have a hit on its hands. If nothing else, the tech is fascinating. Instead of requiring users to customize their news feed inputs in the app, Editions relies on a more touchscreen-friendly "quick'n'easy" process wherein you grab icons that match your interests and then rearrange them into a priority-ranked list.
The app then "scours" the web for matching news, and rearranges the feeds into a graphically pleasing magazine-like UI. The scroll-through interface is, in essence, similar to how you really do flip through a regular mag or newspaper. The effortlessness is described by AOL as making Editions "like Pandora for content."
We know all this from the teaser website, and AOL's extraordinary promo video for the "magazine that reads you."



