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BuzzFeed!
By
Adam Rifkin
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Buzzfeed's writers are
master baiters
.
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59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked. Most people retweet news without reading it.
ViralNova sold for $100 million even though Vice calls it the "Content Farm That's Killing the Internet"
Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl?
BuzzFeed's 200 million MAU's make it the sixth largest U.S. website. ~The (very) big fight for the small screen, by Erin Griffith, Fortune
Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are at war over the future of content — and one of them tried to buy a media company, by Alyson Shontell
April 2015: Refinery29 raises $50 million, worth $290 million with 25 million monthly unique visitors and 250 employees
Here is BuzzFeed’s first pitch deck to investors in 2008
Here is BuzzFeed’s first pitch deck to investors in 2008
R.I.P. Blogging, Killed By Screenshorts
Morpheus what if I told you I saw that on Reddit a week ago meme
Beating a dead horse black blue gold white thedress gif
Where does BuzzFeed source its content from?
BuzzFeed #thedress yielded 8 articles and 41 million views, peaking at 673k concurrent users. Here's what DevOps saw:
The Truth About UberFacts: They're Often Wrong
How a 23-year-old makes $500,000 a year tweeting random facts
The Next Internet Is TV - The Awl
Why The BuzzFeed-Snapchat Discover Deal Fell Through
Most Shared Phrases in Buzzfeed Article Titles
Dec 2014: YouTube serves 1.5 billion video views per week. Disney, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Buzzfeed are atop the Top 50 channels.
Facebook is the new AOL | The Verge
King of Clickbait | The New Yorker
18 Things (And 3 Penises) You Can Draw While Running
Buzzfeed is one model [of self-sustaining Internet content]. Others include Vice, Business Insider, Vox, Re/code, Gawker. ~Chris Dixon
The point when science becomes publicity
What is Silicon Valley’s Most Cliché Phrase?
Two Irish guys brutally deconstruct "Clickbait" journalism in... This Video Will Change Your Life
Reddit Sept 2014: 133 million monthly visitors, raises $50 million, worth $500 million
A Game of Sites
Downworthy: A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean
John Oliver on Native Advertising
The Millennia-Long History Behind the Headlines Your Mom Shares on Facebook | VICE United States
The 30 most viral stories of 2014 so far are all clickbait.
Facebook's Mike Hudack rants about the media: Why won't anybody do something about these shallow viral stories?
Disney tried to buy BuzzFeed
Wow. Facebook just did something amazing to crummy meme sites. And what they do next might shock everyone. - Salon
Facebook changed how the News Feed works in December, crushing Upworthy traffic in half.
Half of Buzzfeed's traffic is on mobile, including long articles. ~Megan Garber, The Atlantic
Ken and Ben Lerer Fund 185 Tech Companies—and Counting
4 Reasons 'Viral' Content Stopped Mattering in 2013
"This Article Will Make You Laugh, Cry, Then Resent Me"
Everything That Happened in 2013 in One Image | Wired.com
More bogus viral compassion marketing
Upworthy = What Happens When a Growth Hacker Launches a Media Company
Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere, Clickbaiting Articles To Millions Of Readers
Quora Will Push Its Most Link-Baity Content to BuzzFeed - Liz Gannes
Oct 2013 MAUs: LinkedIn 160M. Twitter 230M. Zynga 232M. WeChat 236M. WhatsApp 300M. Chrome 750M. Yahoo 800M. Facebook 1.15B.
Why publishers like BuzzFeed are kissing SEO goodbye | IJNet
The 35 Cutest Facts Of All Time - BuzzFeed
Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral
Upworthy Raises Another $8 Million Round for Clickbait with a Mission. Sept 2013: 22 million monthly actives.
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