Demand Media Studios is one of the largest content mills on the internet. This company employs literally thousands of writers, editors, film makers and others who all work as freelancers. The articles and other content produced by these workers is published on Demand Media's many properties which include LIVESTRONG, eHow, Trails, golflink, Cracked, typeF and Impact Stories.
Once you are hired by the Studio, you will be able to accept general titles but for more specialized jobs, such as for LIVESTRONG, you will have to apply again. Titles selected from a pool and you have one week to submit your work to the editor.
The payment varies from project to project but is generally upfront, upon acceptance of the work. The pay is considerably less then you can get working for private clients or magazines but much more than most other content mills. And in the year that I have written for Demand, I have never had an issue with late or missed payment.
Demand Media Studios has received a considerable amount of bad press but, despite it all, this company is most definitely not a scam.
I began writing for Demand in late 2010, around August, and had steady work until about October 2011. At that point, largely because of changes necessitated by a new Google algorithm, the amount of work available sharply decreased to pretty much none. I haven't had an article with Demand for over a month.
Despite the lack of work in the properties I wrote for, named LIVESTRONG, other writers tell me that there is still a considerable amount to be done for other website so there is still work available but there is a bit of a feeding frenzy for it. For the time being, if you get hired by Demand Media Studios, don't expect a steady flow of work but the issue may resolve itself eventually.
Overall, when they had work, Demand was a wonderful company to work for despite all the negative you might have read about them.
