Criticism
Demand Media has attracted criticism from Internet watchdogs for being one of the largest buyers of articles and videos, purchasing thousands of search engine-driven content from low-paid freelancers to use on its websites to attract advertisers, such as Google's AdSense.
Demand Media has also been criticized for its accounting methods, such as capitalizing the costs of content and amortizing them over five years, giving them the appearance of profitability.
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
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