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. It’s called showing good service to your most loyal customers. Good comment community = viral blog.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

The New York Times now includes a Bookshop link alongside an Amazon one, while BuzzFeed News, Vox, and New York Magazine are all in, and Hearst, Meredith, and Condé Nast will likely start using Bookshop next month. Top Publications: BuzzFeed News, Vox, New York Magazine. Bookshop’s goal isn’t to beat Amazon. eBay Partner Network.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

Now, Shopify has apparently approached major publishers including Complex and Vox Media as well as getting Buzzfeed to sign on to the new program. For publishers, it offers a potentially lucrative revenue stream — especially if the publishers can manage to refer potential customers at scale on relatively big-ticket items.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2015

The recent uprising and subsequent meltdown of Reddit can be attributed to the age-old problem of letting customers run your business for you. BuzzFeed and other sites have adopted this approach, focusing their site on providing a single unified editorial voice. Ditch the volunteers and hire an army of professional editors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

One thing with AllSay, is it looke like Buzzfeed did in the early days. Editors use Buzzfeed and read the news, to find proposals and decisions, and use the news as a source. Geoff Campbell: For any organization, at some point they need to activate their constituency, customers, or fans in some area of public discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. AOL and the like.

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