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11 things you need to know about Buzzfeed

After raising nearly $20m in funding, the social news website is set to launch in the UK and take on Mail Online It figures … Buzzfeed's list-mad site is about to launch in the UK....

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Terry City Joins BuzzFeed as Vice President of Sales, West Coast

BuzzFeed Expands Social Advertising for Film and Television Industry New York, NY (PRWEB) April 13, 2012 Terry City has joined BuzzFeed as Vice President of Sales, West Coast. City was most recently...

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BuzzFeed Has Raised A $15.5 Million Round

BuzzFeed founder Jonah PerettiViral media site BuzzFeed has raised $15.5 million in a Series C round, reports TechCrunch. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates and followed up with Lerer...

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BuzzFeed Adds Emotional Reactions to Facebook Timeline with New Social App

Going Beyond the Like to Let People LOL, OMG, WTF Social Content New York, NY (PRWEB) January 18, 2012 BuzzFeed, the hottest, most social content on the web, today announced a new integration with...

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Buzzfeed 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...

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Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get...

Yahoo Apple Facebook Twitter Google Microsoft Disrupt SF 2013 news Comment Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News Alexia Tsotsis View Staff Page Follow me...

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The BuzzFeed Numbers Jonah Peretti Won’t Talk About

Lots of chatter in medialand today about BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti’s state-of-BuzzFeed memo, which is full of boast-worthy boasts: A ton of page views, a lot of employees, and a profit to boot....

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BuzzFeed 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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BuzzFeed'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...

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What BuzzFeed Can Teach Facebook

By Eric Jackson05/29/12 - 01:35 PM EDT TheStreet Premium Services A complimentary preview of Real Money NEW YORK (Real Money) -- There's a lot of hate out there these days for Facebook(FB), in the...

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BuzzFeed Is Now Valued At ~ $200 Million, But Investors Think It Has...

'I Love Cute, Fluffy Animals': A Q&A With BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith The 12 Coolest Startup Offices We've Ever Seen Holy Cow! Buzzfeed Just Raised ANOTHER $20 Million BuzzFeed, a media...

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Serious 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...

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A PONY! Click! You know you wanna ...

A custom 'My Little Pony' named Gothic Maytime. (AFP) Our Coverage How have I survived so long in my abysmal ignorance. Here's the definition from the Urban Dictionary: "Brony. A name typically given...

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How Union Square Ventures Almost Invested In BuzzFeed -- And Then Didn't

Last week, we took a tour of BuzzFeed and interviewed its co-founder and CEO, Jonah Peretti, and Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith. The full story will run later this week. In the meantime, there was one...

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BuzzFeed Raises $15.5 Million

BuzzFeed keeps growing. After making a statement by appointing Politico’s Ben Smith as editor-in-chief, TechCrunch reports that the news aggregator raised $15.5...

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Jonah Peretti Takes To LinkedIn To Celebrate BuzzFeed's Profitability

BuzzFeed is looking good. So good, in fact, that Jonah Peretti published his staff memo on numbers to LinkedIn. There were 85 million unique visitors to the site in August, making the site three...

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Duolingo's Users To Provide Translation For BuzzFeed's Posts On Foreign...

As BuzzFeed's vertiginous expansion continues to overseas markets, it's hit on an ingenious strategy to translate its articles: language students. The website has teamed up with language startup...

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Here's The Email-Alerts Service That BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti Can't Live...

If you haven't heard of Newsle, a service which alerts you whenever your friends make the news, you will soon. That's because Jonah Peretti, the viral genius behind the Huffington Post and BuzzFeed—as...

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Watch: Jonah Peretti Describes Launching The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed

In the final part of our three-part “Media Beat” interview with Jonah Peretti, the internet entrepreneur talks about launching The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. “I wasn’t sure if...

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BuzzFeed's 20 Million Uniques And 101 Employees Are Nothing To Laugh At

Who can resist bunnies in the tub?BuzzFeed is best known for its ridiculous, viral features like The 15 Most Adorable Pictures of Rabbit Bathtime and Corgis Explain The Final Four. Its business is...

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Buzzfeed moves into profit four years after launch

Buzzfeed, the social media website celebrated for its cat listicles, has moved into profit four years after launch, with its founder declaring it is going to be one of the "biggest sites on the web"...

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BuzzFeed 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...

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Nick 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...

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Gawker 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....

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Buzzfeed 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...

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Significant 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...

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WTF, 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...

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Buzzfeed 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...

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Meet 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...

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Listicle site Buzzfeed moves into profit four years after launch

Founder Jonah Peretti tells staff that it will become one of the biggest sites on the web within a year Listing his successes … Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti has predicted a bright future for his...

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INSIDE 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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How 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...

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BuzzFeed's Brazen, Nutty, Growth Plan

Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed, disclosed in a recent letter to investors that its traffic tripled over the past year, hitting 85 million visitors in August. Soon—thanks to our collective...

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Jonah 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...

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'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...

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7 reasons why Buzzfeed is the death/saviour of news

The social news site Buzzfeed is growing at a scary rate, racing past serious news services like the New York Times - and the BBC - as the way younger people hear about what's happening around the...

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Seven reasons why Buzzfeed is the death/saviour of news

The social news site Buzzfeed is growing at a scary rate, racing past serious news services like the New York Times - and the BBC - as the way younger people hear about what's happening around the...

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OMG, 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...

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The technology year

Smartphone battles, console wars, and conflict over web surveillance - it has been a turbulent year in the technology world. But as we look back at all the new products launched in 2013, what stands...

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Buzzfeed raises $15 million to boost editorial

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - BuzzFeed's new editor has $15 million to play with. The social-driven website known for viral videos and memes surprised many in December when it announced Ben Smith, one of...

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The Lerer Family Launches The Dodo, Which Is Arguably The Smartest Idea For A...

"Cute animals deserve respect." BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti told that to the audience at technology conference South by Southwest last year. And he should know. His site is investing in original...

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The Lerer Family Launches The Dodo, Which Is Arguably The Smartest Idea For A...

"Cute animals deserve respect." BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti told that to the audience at technology conference South by Southwest last year. And he should know. His site is investing in original...

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>The Lerer Family Launches The Dodo, Which Is Arguably The Smartest Idea For...

"Cute animals deserve respect." BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti told that to the audience at technology conference South by Southwest last year. And he should know. His site is investing in original...

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Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: 'We're not like something that came before'

The social news site's creator and CEO on how it became a hit, meeting Murdoch – and why cat posts grab so much traffic Jonah Peretti: spreading the word about Buzzfeed. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/Corbis...

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Beyond 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...

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Why 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,...

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