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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ze Frank Games , the Los Angeles startup led by web video's Ze Frank , has been acquired by BuzzFeed , a social news publisher, the firm said Friday. According to BuzzFeed, Ze Frank has joined the company to build a team of video producers in Los Angeles, setting up a studio to create content native to the social web.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. BuzzFeed has seen their Instant Articles engage more people than any of their standard link posts and Gawker ’s founder tweeted that instant articles boosted daily uniques to their website.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Oh, sacred cow. In the steam.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. All great communication companies. And then the world changed.

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