BuzzFeed Deletes Archives That Made It a Viral Success
BuzzFeed has been a massive success as a new media company. Indeed, the company was recently valued at $850 million after a $50 million round of funding, according to anonymous sources cited by The...
View ArticleSocial Media Newsfeed: Twitter Favorites | Facebook Satire Tags
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Twitter’s Latest Experiment Turns Favorites into Retweets (and it’s Annoying Lots of People) (The Next Web) Twitter is back in...
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Social Media Newsfeed: YouTube Stars | Twitpic Purchased
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. YouTube Will Pay Its Stars To Make Videos (Forbes) YouTube has a wealth of homegrown talent — and it wants to keep it that way. The...
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Social Media Newsfeed: Tech Firms Offer Egg Freezing | Google Takes on Amazon
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook and Apple Now Pay for Women to Freeze Eggs (NBC News) Two Silicon Valley giants now offer women a game-changing perk: Apple...
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BuzzFeed’s Social Division Makes New Hires
BuzzFeed Distributed, a new social division of the publisher, is gearing up for its official launch with several new hires. The division, which will officially launch in the next few months, is a team...
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Can BuzzFeed Be Trusted?
BuzzFeed, the social publisher that built its name on listicles and quizzes, has been trying to become a serious news source. In recent memory, BuzzFeed has: Hired investigative reporters. Launched a...
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Most People Don’t Know Enough to Distrust BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed gets a bad rap when it comes to journalism, and sometimes it’s well deserved. The site has been beefing up its staff of journalists and producing more longform content, but some of its...
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BuzzFeed Distributed Staffs Up
BuzzFeed Distributed, the social division of the publisher, is gearing up for its upcoming launch with a whole slew of new hires. Two weeks ago, the company announced the addition of six new staffers....
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We Live in a Clickbait World, And That’s OK
The Challenges of FacebookWorld, via Andrew Golis and Medium Last week, Buzzfeed’s news editor, Ben Smith, wrote a piece on how Buzzfeed doesn’t do clickbait. Which resulted in a lot of responses like...
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BuzzFeed Clickbait Shared Less Often Than Non-Clickbait
After our post on BuzzFeed and clickbait, Saif Anjani over at Keyhole, a hashtag analytics tracker, reached out to share some of their own research on clickbait and how it affects how posts are...
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