BuzzFeed Announces $20 Million in New Financing
> BuzzFeed, the social news Web site that was one of the media industry darlings of 2012, began the new year by announcing Thursday morning that it had raised nearly $20 million in new financing...
View ArticleBuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti On What It Means To Go Viral, And How...
BuzzFeed is all about the social web, and taking advantage of the viral nature of news. In part two of our “Media Beat” interview with Jonah...
View ArticleBuzzfeed announces $19.3m in funding as it transforms internet advertising
Adding serious journalism in between the cat pictures is paying off for Jonah Peretti's popular social site – and its advertisers Buzzfeed offers a mix of frivolity, serious news and advertising...
View ArticleBuzzfeed in the UK: are kittens, owls and boy bands the media's future?
Any hip 20-something who logs on to list-loving social media site BuzzFeed tomorrow – and thousands around the world do daily – they will notice something a little different. Alongside pieces like "29...
View ArticleSteve Kendall Joins BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has hired Steve Kandell as its long form editor. At the site, Kendall will be responsible for jump starting its foray into long form pieces. Kendall was...
View ArticleReady For Huffington Post 2? Jonah Peretti Tells Us Why BuzzFeed Just Hired...
Today, BuzzFeed, a site know for viral/social content, shook up the media world by announcing it hired Ben Smith, a prolific reporter from Politico, which is known for serious political...
View ArticleINSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved...
BuzzFeed's office. The company has 175 employees. Jonah Peretti stretches out casually in his chair, sneaker over knee, in his downtown New York office. The office is encased in glass, a transparent...
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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 ArticleBuzzFeed Continues to Expand, Adds Doree Shafrir
Another big name is joining BuzzFeed. Doree Shafrir, most recently a Senior Editor at Rolling Stone, is joining the site to help expand its cultural coverage. The New York Times reports that...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti: We Raised A Whopping $15 Million To Build A 'Pure...
After raising a $15.5 million Series C round and hiring Politico's Ben Smith to lead a new push into original content, BuzzFeed's been getting some serious, well, buzz. We spoke with Jonah Peretti, a...
View ArticleViral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get...
Editor’s Picks Apple Android Facebook Google Crunchies Awards Click Here For Full CES Coverage, Including Video Interviews, Demos, Giveaways And More Comment Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To...
View Article'I Love Cute, Fluffy Animals': A Q&A With BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith
BuzzFeed's Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith, who's helped catapult the site to over 30 million monthly uniques this year. How Union Square Ventures Almost Invested In BuzzFeed—And Then Didn't Ready For...
View ArticleMeet the mad scientist of social media
London - This particular afternoon, for a few moments only, Jonah Peretti is trying not to create a social media sensation. No, he tells The Independent, with a shake of his head, he will not be...
View ArticleJonah Peretti: The nerd-genius is keeping his cool
To understand just how unusual that is, you need to know that Mr Peretti is the co-founder of The Huffington Post and now of BuzzFeed, a website whose societal ambitions used to extend no further than...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run By Gizmodo’s Matt...
Do we need more Web sites writing about tech? Yes, yes we do. Which is good, because here’s another one: BuzzFeed, the online publishing startup that’s the toast of people who like to write about...
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...
View ArticleEx-L.A. Times Editors Join BuzzFeed in Push to Cover Hollywood (Exclusive)
share Richard Rushfield will head a new Los Angeles bureau for the social news site as Kate Aurthur joins to cover television, film and celebrities. Social news website BuzzFeed is going Hollywood,...
View ArticleSirius XM to carry BuzzFeed radio show
BuzzFeed said late Sunday it built its Web audience of more than 30 million monthly unique visitors by posting viral content such as animal photos and witty lists such as "the 21 Absolute Worst Things...
View ArticleWhere BuzzFeed Is Trending (With $15.5 Million In Help)
A month after its hire of Politico's Ben Smith, BuzzFeed raises $15.5 million in Series C financing. How has the site changed over the past month? BuzzFeed is more than a few steps on its way to...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Announces Los Angeles Bureau
Richard Rushfield to Lead Team as Los Angeles Bureau Chief, Kate Aurthur to Serve as Chief Los Angeles Correspondent; Michael Hastings to Join Los Angeles Bureau as Correspondent-at-Large Following...
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 ArticleInterview with Ben Smith: the rise and rise of Buzzfeed (International...
(Source: International Journalism Festival) 25 gennaio 2013 He elected Mara Carfagna the world's sexiest politician and reached 9 million unique visitors with a gallery entitled «21 photos that will...
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...
View ArticleHow BuzzFeed Makes Everything Go Viral
If all companies are brands and all brands are publishers and all publishers live on their shareability, we all need to know as much as we can about how to get the share. So when BuzzFeed cofounder...
View ArticleThe Future of BuzzFeed Looks Like a Newsier Facebook News Feed
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets. As a content operation that caters...
View ArticleSignificant and Silly at BuzzFeed
When a Web site 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?” Yana Paskova...
View ArticleNick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's...
Ready for a good old fashion blog fight? Nick Denton is crushing BuzzFeed, and its cofounder Jonah Peretti, over at Gawker using its new commenting system. He says, "Jonah Peretti is one of the...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Makes Another Splashy Hire, This One From Rolling Stone
BuzzFeed, the social Web site that made a splash last month by hiring the blogger Ben Smith away from Politico, will signal its expansion plans on Friday by announcing that it has hired Doree Shafrir...
View ArticleGawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to...
After users accuse him of trying to emulate BuzzFeed, Denton jumps into the fray to accuse rival Jonah Peretti of 'stunt' tactics Nick Denton is already a seasoned user of Gawker's new comment system....
View ArticleWeb Video Pioneer Ze Frank, Buzzfeed Form Voltron Of Virality
Ze Frank was making gifs when people thought gifs were a brand of peanut butter. He went viral in 2001, before the phrase itself did, with an animated, interactive wedding invitation called "How To...
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 favourite online video. "Drunk vs Stoned was pretty fun," he finally says, singling out a...
View ArticleBuzzFeed's Peretti: Sharing is as important as reporting
By Alex Dalenberg December 4, 2013 | 4:08pm EST VIDEO BuzzFeed had a record-breaking November, raking in more than 130 million unique visitors, So it’s not that surprising that CEO Jonah Peretti tells...
View ArticleThe Link Between Viral Content And Emotional Intelligence
If you wanted to land a gig as a film writer for BuzzFeed, you'd have to a few expected traits: experience as critic, a love of entertainment, and a "proven ability to get viral traffic." Another...
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 ArticleBuzzFeed sets out to conquer the world
In December 2011, when Ben Smith, the high-octane reporter and blogger for Politico, jumped ship to become the editor of BuzzFeed, a site then better known for viral slideshows and cat videos, many in...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Launches Animals Vertical, Cuteness Ensues
BuzzFeed Enters Fast-Paced World Of Cute Animal News With Groundbreaking New "Animals" Vertical Led By Shepherd, Lamb New York, NY (PRWEB) April 10, 2012 BuzzFeed today launched a vertical dedicated...
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