About Us

Connecting audience intent to quality content

The DemandSphere Story

DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.

Changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, means constantly updating the insights we deliver to our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connections between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.

GinzaMetrics, the original organic marketing and SEO data and analytics platform, provided a great starting point for understanding consumer intent and the foundation of findable content.

In fact, the idea for GinzaMetrics was conceived in the boardroom of one of our clients. Forty people were packed into a room to discuss the best way to scale SEO across dozens of sites the client owned. Representatives from the client’s brand managers, IT leaders, advertising agency and content production teams were all having a heated discussion about how to create high quality site content in a scalable fashion and how to decide which keywords to target in the first place.

Existing solutions included either cheap, one-off tools or overpriced, clunky tools and neither option provided this client with the daily information they needed, when and in a view that they could use. It was in the middle of this discussion that we envisioned a powerful, yet easy-to-use SaaS platform to solve these problems in a way that took into account the complexities associated with large scale search and content projects.

Now, more than a decade later, we have grown to an organization that serves e-commerce, agency, B2B, and B2C clients of various sizes and team types around the world. Their needs for better insights that are tailored to their individual and organizational goals has lead us to the flexible, scalable product offerings of DemandSphere.

Ray Grieselhuber

CEO & Founder

Ray has been working in the search and digital marketing space for more than a decade. Ray was the lead architect of the first enterprise SEO platform in the industry at San Diego-based Covario. After participating in Y Combinator in the Summer of 2010, he launched GinzaMetrics with the goal of helping businesses create authentic interactions with their customers through SEO and content marketing. Ray has gone on to work with brands and agencies to increase their online findability both as a platform builder as well as an industry advisor and visionary. He has spoken at numerous industry events, including ad:tech Tokyo, PR Summit, FOUND Conference SV, FOUND Conf NYC, DATA Conference, Media Finance Summit, LeadsCon NY August 2012, PubCon, Under the Radar Conference, and Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference.

Takeru Muroya Japan Country Manager

Takeru Muroya

Country Manager, Japan

Takeru Muroya brings experience in the SEO space and enthusiasm for ensuring clients are found to the DemandSphere team. A well-known name in the APAC SEO scene, Takeru has expanded the DemandSphere footprint in the region and continues to tackle the tough challenges that search engines and findability put in front of us.

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