9 posts and columns on Ben Huh

Maybe You’re Going to Have to Pay for Cable After All, Silicon Valley

in Media on April 4 at 11:47 am PT

Bravo’s upcoming seasons feature two shows — and maybe more — all about you! Or at least a version of you, brought to you by Randi Zuckerberg and Ben Huh.
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Cheezburger's $30M Gets the Taiwanese Animator Send-Up

in Social on January 21, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

Next Media Animation depicts Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as an evil stealer of memes, over-worker of cats and receiver of Internet flames. It’s pretty funny.

I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business

in Social on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud?

Weekend Update 8.08.09–The Lolcats Edition

in Social on August 8, 2009 at 5:48 pm PT

It’s been a long time between weekend updates, and a long week without Peter Kafka, All Things D’s intrepid MediaMemo reporter. He returns Monday, and just in time, too, since John Paczkowski and Digital Daily will be out all next week. Must be August–do Europeans still take the whole month off? Or is that an urban legend? No matter; it definitely has not been sleepy around here.
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Kara Visits Lolcats: I Can Has Cheezy Laughs and Make Money Online

in News on August 3, 2009 at 7:41 pm PT

On my recent visit to Seattle, the highlight for BoomTown was a visit I made to see Ben Huh, the CEO of Pet Holdings. Huh got a lot of attention when he bought icanhascheezburger.com in late 2007. The site, known as Lolcats, was well known for odd pictures of cats with even odder and often misspelled captions. Via even more sites, Huh has created a profitable network of pointless fun. The latest is, naturally, Emails From Crazy People, which just launched.
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SXSW: The Perils of Being Internet Famous

in News on March 17, 2009 at 1:54 pm PT

Death threats. Suspicious packages. Marriage proposals. Haters. These are the perils of being “Internet famous,” according to a panel of self-proclaimed Internet celebrities at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival.