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Jeff Domansky's insight:
Huh? Sorry, I was checking Buzzfeed. Fun! :-) 
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BuzzFeed is easy to bash; a fast-rising rocket ship is a visible target. And they do produce some pretty silly content. But when you discuss the future of journalism, BuzzFeed always seems to show up at that intersection between crazy and smart where genius so often lies. What’s actually crazy is seeing most everyone try to copy BuzzFeed’s voice and play catchup to its trendy listicle format at one point or another—from old media, including the Times, to new media like Digiday, to opportunistic startups like Playbuzz. When I say that publishers need to “stop chasing BuzzFeed,” what I mean is that they need to stop imitating BuzzFeed’s style and pay more attention to the brilliant way it runs its business.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
What makes BuzzFeed so effective? Read on for ideas.
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Jonah Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed. He writes: "BuzzFeed is a social publisher with 30 million monthly visitors and Facebook is our largest source of traffic." Then he tells you how they do it in this brilliant list of 13 tips.
[Excellent tactics for Facebook ~ Jeff] Via Mindy McAdams
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BuzzFeed has cracked the code on how to attract an audience. This is a media property that regularly generates over 200 billion video views per month and over 50 million unique monthly visitors. Thanks to BuzzFeed, the listicle has become de rigueur for those charged with owned media and social channels. Of course, it’s the BF algorithm — hey, the data says a story about Donald Trump’s barber would trigger clicks galore — that does the heavy lifting. Call it storytelling by the numbers. Still, we pay attention to BuzzFeed and periodically conduct our own experiments like predicting what would happen if the White House poached BF talent to extend its own publishing empire....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Hoffman Agency account professionals attended PRSA’s Inside the Newsroom BuzzFeed panel to get the inside scoop on media relations.
Anna Mroczkowski's curator insight,
October 2, 2015 10:56 PM
Buzzfeed has grown rapidly over the past years, and have became YouTube sensations. Will over 2 billion views per month, Buzzfeed must keep up with demands. They have a large team at the company that each contribute a role. There PR program is very important in order to keep the up to date with current affairs and new products, with out them they'd be lost. As a PR employee of Buzzfeed it is your job to make sure you are also keeping up to date, nothing worse them handing in old research.
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...BuzzFeed is to journalism what Geraldo is to Walter Cronkite. It sucks. It is built on meanest of readers’ instincts. These endless stream of crass listicles are an insult to the human intelligence and goodness you personify. Even Business Insider, a champion practitioner of cheap click-bait schemes, looks like The New York Review of Books compared to BuzzFeed. And don’t tell me that, by hiring a couple of “seasoned editors and writers” as the PR spin puts it, BuzzFeed will become a noble and notable contributor of information. We never saw a down/mass market product morphing into a premium media. You can delete as many posts as you wish, it won’t alter BF’s peculiar DNA. Fact is, quality content does exist in BuzzFeed (an example here), but in the same way as a trash can contains leftovers of good food: you must go deep to find it. It won’t change the fact that what people enjoy the most on BuzzFeed is unparalleled ability to package, organize and disseminate mediocrity broken down in this promising nomenclature:...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
What Frederic Filloux really thinks of VC investment in Buzzfeed.
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Huh? Sorry, I was checking Buzzfeed. Fun! :-)