13 posts and columns on BuzzFeed

Kitteh Culture

As the world has realigned from being about portals and then search and now social, how do you build a media company for a social world? And a big part of that is scoops and exclusives and original content, and it’s also about cute kittens in an entertaining cultural context.

– Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, in conversation with David Carr of the New York Times

Huffington Post Tech Boss Leaves AOL, For Real

in Media on January 10 at 3:42 pm PT

Like almost every other top Huffpo executive from the pre-AOL days, Paul Berry is on to something else — which happens to involve working with a lot of former Huffpo executives.
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News Byte

Buzzfeed Raises $15 Million to Make More Buzzy Content

in Media on January 9 at 8:37 am PT

News aggregator/newsmaker Buzzfeed has raised a $15.5 million C round led by New Enterprise Associates. The New York-based site, run by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, also features HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer as investor and chairman, and former HuffPo sales boss Greg Coleman has joined as a board advisor. The site recently signaled its intent to generate more of its own content, designed to be flung around users’ social networks, by hiring Politico blogger Ben Smith to beef up its editorial ranks.

Facebook, MoveOn Vets Working on Mystery Media Start-Up for Lefties

in Media on December 14, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is backing a news venture from former MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser that they’re calling a “viral media start-up” for progressives.
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“Oops”: Rick Perry’s Viral Classic Hits a Million Views Overnight

in Media on November 10, 2011 at 11:38 am PT

The Republican primaries continue to generate lots of video views for YouTube.
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Sharethrough CEO on Why You Should Care About Social Video Ads (Video)

in Social on February 17, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

Sharethrough is a new kind of ad platform: One focused exclusively on video and social sharing. Basically, it guarantees it can get your funny ad a lot of views.

New Facebook Profiles Susceptible to Pranks

in Social on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

As part of the new Facebook profile page redesign, users can now have a strip of the five most recently tagged photos of them running under their basic information. Some are having fun with this option, pranking each other to show inappropriate pictures and silly sequences of words.

The Secrets Behind a Viral Web Hit–And the Huffington Post's Success

in Media on August 13, 2010 at 7:41 am PT

If anyone really knew how to make viral Web hits, they’d be really, really rich. But BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, who helped the Huffington Post become an Internet sensation and launched several Web hits of his own, has some how-to tips.

Your iPad Is Going to Look Pretty Ancient One Day, Too

in Media on June 9, 2010 at 5:35 am PT

Remember when VCRs were expensive, exotic, cutting-edge technology?

BoomTown Interviews Arianna, Ken and Eric About Huffington Post Exec Changes: BAM!!

in News on June 15, 2009 at 6:18 pm PT

Apparently, if you want to think about the growth of the Huffington Post as a culinary dish, perhaps today’s replacement of CEO Betsy Morgan with longtime online media powerhouse Eric Hippeau might appear under the Emeril Lagasse cooking cliché: Let’s kick it up a notch! Both co-founders of the online media site, Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, said as much in interviews I did with them–as well as Hippeau–this afternoon. “The deal is that we simply have been growing so fast that we needed more firepower to accelerate in expanding the site and monetizing it,” said Huffington, who is also editor-in-chief of the news site.
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