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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Others are skeptical, “Ha! Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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AllSay: Using Mobile Apps To Engage Users With Decisions, with Geoff Campbell

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How do you combine the world of online and mobile apps with the world of community and political decisions and discourse? 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. We''d like to change that.

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile. Many publishers have been wringing their hands over declining CPMs, shift from desktop to mobile, etc.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

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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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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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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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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.