Steven Kydd, EVP of Demand Studios, talks about why YouTube partnership is key Last night I had dinner with a few folks in San Francisco, including Steven Kydd, EVP of Demand Studios, the content crowd-sourcing arm of Demand Media.Demand Studios, which launched 9 months ago inside Demand, is a network of freelancers - from videographers to writers - that work a few hours a day to produce content. It's essentially the engine that drives all the content that’s distributed across Demand Media's properties, such as eHow, ExpertVillage and LiveStrong, the new healthcare site in partnership with Lance Armstrong. Demand Media launched over two years ago and is a 470-person new social media company that raised $355 million in funding, and was founded by Richard Rosenblatt, former chairman of MySpace.Now that Demand Studios has ... [ Read more ]