BuzzFeed valued at more than three times The Washington Post
Viral internet site set up by Jonah Peretti in 2006 now employs 550 staff in New York, London, Sydney, Paris and more...
View ArticleVice and BuzzFeed: How Very Different Companies Came to Play the Same Game
BuzzFeed cofounder and CEO Jonah Peretti and Vice cofounder Shane Smith seem like pretty different people — and, for all indications, they are. The hard-talking, T-shirt-wearing Smith enjoys being in...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's 200 million visitors? Small potatoes
BuzzFeed draws 200 million people to its site every month. To the site's co-founder, Jonah Peretti, that's small potatoes. When Peretti took the stage at sun-drenched media lovefest SXSW in Austin this...
View ArticleWhy Gawker Media's Nick Denton Is Constantly Attacking BuzzFeed And Its CEO...
Nick Denton Gawker Media founder Nick Denton does not like BuzzFeed. Yesterday he launched another seemingly unprovoked attack against BuzzFeed. On Gawker's new commenting platform Kinja, Denton wrote,...
View ArticleHere's how Jonah Peretti came up with the idea for HuffPo
See Also Buzzfeed CEO and co-founder Jonah Peretti and investor Chris Dixon spoke at San Francisco's on Wednesday, where Dixon asked Peretti about founding Buzzfeed and how he got started. To tell that...
View ArticleWhat the rise and rise of the listicle means for intellectual property
Wayne Beynon explores the IP issues associated with the growth of Buzzfeed style listicles...
View ArticleOMG! Buzzfeed Coming To Canada
The website that first put the letters “OMG” in a headline announced its plans to expand to the Great White North on Thursday. Buzzfeed says it will be opening an office in Toronto, the Financial Post...
View ArticleBuzzFeed, Ben Smith and how to harness the viral power of the bored-at-work...
BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Photo: Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed It's employee appreciation week at the headquarters of BuzzFeed, the attention-seeking digital publisher that reckons it...
View ArticleBuzzfeed to use $50m investment to fund new ventures
Here are three insights about BuzzFeed, the viral content startup: 1. BuzzFeed is a web traffic sensation that draws 150 million average monthly viewers. 2. Numbered lists, like this one, are what the...
View ArticleGawker's Nick Denton Picks Fight With BuzzFeed, Calls Website ‘Pointless’
Gawker has BuzzFeed in its snarky crosshairs. The website's founder Nick Denton held an online meeting on...
View Article5 Lessons for Creating 'Viral' Content from BuzzFeed
Anyone who has ever been on Facebook has probably been on BuzzFeed. The originator of the omnipresent listicle. Of cat memes and baby videos, that home of the wacky and weird on the internet, BuzzFeed...
View ArticleWith launch of i100, viral sites continue to spread
i100 looks very familiar. The new website from UK newspaper The Independent has “curiosity gap” headlines (“The most uplifting body image message you will see today”), clicky YouTube videos (“The...
View ArticleBuzzfeed expanding to Mumbai
NEW DELHI: US-based "news and entertainment" website Buzzfeed will soon be starting operations in India. In an memo to his employees, founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said that the website's expansion...
View ArticleFun feed for the Indian palate
They offer snazzy, almost weird, headlines which promise to either "blow your mind" or "make you cry". The actual content, generally laced with videos and images, can be underwhelming but the funky...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: how the great entertainer got serious
Chief executive on not paying to push news on Facebook, measuring impact not traffic, and his best content...
View ArticleWittyfeed: World's second largest viral content company from Indore
When we talk about startups - the central Indian city of Indore may pop up in our minds as a likely place for venture incubation. Indore after all, is known more for its history; its Chanderi and its...
View ArticleWhat Buzzfeed's Data Tells About the Pricing of Native Advertisements
Buzzfeed’s recent progress report demonstrates that native advertising is demanding an impressive premium over display advertising. This is because Buzzfeed and other native ad publishers are...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard
BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytical dashboard it uses to monitor the spread of Internet “memes” to any website, brand or publisher that...
View ArticleJonah Peretti: Sex Is A Lot More Popular Than Jesus On Google
Apple Facebook Twitter Google Microsoft Disrupt NY Event Info › Coverage › Agenda › Sponsors › Video Clips › Watch Live entertainment Comment Jonah Peretti: Sex Is A Lot More Popular Than Jesus On...
View ArticleHow BuzzFeed Became A Huge Web Media Company By Ditching Google And Banner Ads
How Union Square Ventures Almost Invested In BuzzFeed—And Then Didn't Here's The Email-Alerts Service That BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Can't Live Without Nick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti...
View ArticleWTF, Indeed: Politico's Ben Smith Joins BuzzFeed To Build A "Social News...
Why did the meme factory hire the serious political reporter? They saw eye-to-eye on one important thing: the social network optimization of the news. BuzzFeed is a website that aggregates meme-y...
View Article>NICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleNICK DENTON: Zuckerberg Tweaked The Facebook Algorithm After The CEO Of...
Here's a juicy bit of gossip about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. Gawker Media leader (and Peretti foil) Nick Denton says that last year Peretti told Zuckerberg to tweak...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Has This ‘Sponsored Content’ Thing Down
The biggest “must read” story making its way around the web this week is New York Magazine’s profile of BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti and his enviably successful approach to paid content. To sum...
View ArticleWTF? Inside the launch of Buzzfeed UK
On a freezing Monday afternoon in central London, the brains behind Buzzfeed are discussing the delicate science of making cute lists of animal pictures go viral. "Cats do better than dogs," says Ben...
View ArticleBeyond cute cats: How BuzzFeed is reinventing itself
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BuzzFeed has come a long way from cat lists. This month one of its journalists was on the ground in Kiev reporting on the crisis in Ukraine, and last December it published an...
View ArticleBuzzFeed is going viral just like some of its videos
Jonah Peretti, founder and chief executive of the wildly popular website BuzzFeed, is trying to choose his favorite online video. "'Drunk vs. Stoned' was pretty fun," he finally says, singling out a...
View ArticleBuzzfeed chases viral-video magic
Jonah Peretti, founder and chief executive of the wildly popular website BuzzFeed, is trying to choose his favorite online video. Drunk vs. Stoned was pretty fun, he finally says, singling out a...
View ArticleFacebook Changed How The News Feed Works — And Huge Website Upworthy Suddenly...
In November, viral-content-for-a-cause site Upworthy posted insane traffic numbers, reaching almost 90 million people around the world, according to Quantcast. Then, in December, Facebook announced a...
View ArticleFEATURE-Beyond cute cats: How BuzzFeed is reinventing itself
NEW YORK Feb 23 (Reuters) - BuzzFeed has come a long way from cat lists. This month one of its journalists was on the ground in Kiev reporting on the crisis in Ukraine, and last December it published...
View ArticleBuzzfeed's Jonah Peretti Is The Stephen Hawking Of Radical Skateboarding Birds
When Jonah Peretti co-founded the Huffington Post, search engines were the defacto traffic directors of the web. And his success was often tied to the rankings of HuffPo pages in search results....
View Article>Buzzfeed CEO: Here's Why Facebook Isn't Crushing Us
In December, Facebook changed its News Feed algorithm to favor more "high quality" news over "memes." Looking at a bunch of charts yesterday, we found this change correlated with a sudden and massive...
View ArticleBuzzfeed CEO: Here's Why Facebook Isn't Crushing Us
In December, Facebook changed its News Feed algorithm to favor more "high quality" news over "memes." Looking at a bunch of charts yesterday, we found this change correlated with a sudden and massive...
View ArticleJonah Peretti: And at number one on Buzzfeed's list is...
If the name Jonah Peretti rings even fewer bells than his website Buzzfeed, then you're probably over 35 or ailurophobic. Only old age or a pathological fear of cats could explain not knowing about one...
View ArticleOMG, BuzzFeed's Investing In Serious News Coverage! Is It FTW?
Anyone who has hankered for a list of 10 of the most life-affirming dog rescue stories ever can rely on the social media site BuzzFeed. That list of 11 classic horror films that should never have been...
View ArticleSerious news muscles grow under a silly, frilly skin
WHEN a website called BuzzFeed broke the news in early January that John McCain was endorsing Mitt Romney, more than a few readers scratched their heads and said, "What is a BuzzFeed?" They're about to...
View Article>This 20-Year-Old Is The Mastermind Behind Distractify, A Fast-Growing Media...
Do we really need more things to distract us? Apparently we do. Enter Distractify, a new media startup that wants to make content go viral. After launching just last month, Distractify says it reached...
View ArticleThis 20-Year-Old Is The Mastermind Behind Distractify, A Fast-Growing Media...
Do we really need more things to distract us? Apparently we do. Enter Distractify, a new media startup that wants to make content go viral. After launching just last month, Distractify says it reached...
View Article66. Jonah Peretti
The Buzzfeed founder has won venture capital backing for his site's attention-grabbing mix of news, viral content and listicles...
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