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BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.Based in New York City, [2] BuzzFeed was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content.
BuzzFeed began in 2006 as a way of harnessing the virality of internet memes, and almost accidentally became a prominent force in investigative journalism, writes Bevan Hurley.
Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post along with Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart and Arianna Huffington in 2005. [4] [18] He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million. [4] [10] [19] In 2005, Peretti hosted the Contagious Media Showdown at Eyebeam in New York City, where he worked as director of the R&D Lab ...
BuzzFeed on Wednesday sold Complex to NTWRK, an e-commerce company specializing in collectible items rooted in street culture, in a deal that further shrinks the struggling Jonah Peretti-led ...
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Johnson founded art and technology center Eyebeam in 1997. [6] In 2003, Johnson hired Jonah Peretti as Director of Research and Development with the purpose of establishing the web as a place for art experiments. They went on to produce the first online series of public experiments in viral media in the "Contagious Media Showdown". [7]
BuzzFeed's stock-market debut is seen as a referendum on digital media and founder Jonah Peretti's stewardship of the company.
Everyday is an ongoing art project by American photographer Noah Kalina that gained widespread attention when the first segment of the project, Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years also titled everyday, was released in 2006 and became a viral video.