The California-based company is a digital media services provider with an established international presence. It is now recruiting between 20 and 40 new employees to work from its latest Dublin offices.
Dublin has gained a reputation as a hotbed of technological business growth in recent years. The Irish government has made no secret of its hope to develop an increasingly significant Information and Communications Technology (ICT) enterprise sector in the city. Demand Media’s Dublin offices are at One Clarendon Row, next to the historic Gaiety Theatre in the heart of the city.
“We are excited to expand our business into the thriving tech scene of Dublin,” commented Dave Panos, executive vice president of emerging markets for Demand Media. “We are eager to recruit creative and high-energy professionals who are up to the challenge of taking the lead in the changing Internet landscape,” he added.
Ireland’s minister for jobs, enterprise and innovation, Richard Burton, welcomed Demand Media’s move into Dublin and described the decision to establish its largest international office in the city as a further boost for the city’s technology sector.
Demand Media has offices in Toronto, London, and Buenos Aires, in addition to its official corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
David Ryan, formerly of the computer games firm Electronic Arts, has been appointed as general manager of Demand Media’s Dublin offices and domain services operations.
Other big-name tech firms with offices in and around Dublin include Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!
Editor’s notes: Demand Media rebranded as Leaf Group in 2016, and Leaf Group was acquired in 2021 by Graham Holdings Company for $323 million.
In 2023, the Leaf Group was restructured to become World of Good Brands, separating Leaf’s lifestyle publishing websites – Well+Good, Livestrong, Hunker and OnlyInYourState — from its marketplace businesses, Saatchi Art and Society6.
Hunker was sold to Static Media in 2024. A year later, Well+Good and Livestrong were sold to Ziff Davis, and Only In Your State was sold to Launch Potato. After the various sales, the World of Good Brands ceased trading.
Dublin continues to attract high-profile companies from the ICT sector, and in April 2025, it was announced that AI platform Workday had agreed to rent 416,000 square feet of ‘super-prime’ office space at the College Square development in Dublin city centre.
The pre-let deal would place the company’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin city centre and mark Europe’s largest office deal since the pandemic.