“Can anyone, any single one, can anyone shut the fuck up about anything, any single thing? Can any single person shut the fuck up about any single thing for an hour? Is that possible?”— Bo Burnham, buzzfeednews.com
“Relatability is rewarded, but at what cost? Because now I'm sharing so many personal details about myself with six million people, who can in turn, weaponize that and use it against me.”— Brittany Broski, papermag.com
“There’s dishes in my sink right now. I would be embarrassed to do a walk-through of my house.”— Brie Larson, nytimes.com
“BuzzFeed Inc. has agreed to acquire Verizon Media’s HuffPost in a stock deal, the companies said Thursday, uniting two of the larger players in digital media as companies across the sector search for ways to jump-start growth.”— Benjamin Mullin and Keach Hagey, wsj.com
“And yes, Topolsky says, he didn’t expect to end up working with Goldberg, either.”— Peter Kafka, recode.net
“Much of the site’s sizable quiz traffic comes from amateur quizzes created for free by members of the user-generated content hub BuzzFeed Community.”— Jenny G. Zhang, slate.com
“It was no longer enough to publish good content and know your existing readers would come to you. This is still true, now: A lot of the editors I know must overachieve for their publication just to survive.”— Tavi Gevinson, rookiemag.com
“Just like Wall Street, it’s nearly impossible to approach ad tech, with the greatest minds in a generation put to the task of making it that way.”— Dave Carroll, poynter.org
“That move to video didn’t pay off, not for Mic or the many other similar media companies that took their cues from all-powerful Facebook.”— Margaret Sullivan, washingtonpost.com
“Over the long-term, only innovation will enable advertisers to meet evolving customer expectations and demand.”— Jeff Lucas, adweek.com
“A recent study examined which emojis improved click-through rates. The results were a bit surprising.”— Garrett Mehrguth, semrush.com
“The internet is all about destroying the elite, destroying the gatekeepers. The people know best. You take that to its conclusion, and you get Donald Trump. What do those Washington insiders know? What does the elite know? What do papers like The New York Times know? Listen, the people know what’s r…”— Jonathan Franzen, nytimes.com
“Digital media, new since I ran, offers citizens a much easier way to do research, to get new knowledge and to communicate. However, the advent of the Citizens United case has dangerously tipped the scales in favor of our richest citizens, bending the process toward big money and, sadly, reducing pub…”— Walter Mondale, historynet.com
“All in all, what is happening is that the last decade of digital services is essentially over. The challenge and opportunity is now to invent a new set of service to meet the future needs of companies.”— Unknown, digiday.com
“Flickr has survived through thick-and-thin and is core to the entire fabric of the Internet.”— Don MacAskill, usatoday.com
“Just like with the rise of digital, the agency business isn’t going away anytime soon. Instead, a trend toward client control will end up benefiting nimbler agencies over massive ones and project work over retainers. As always, adaptability will ensure survival.”— Ilyse Liffreing, digiday.com
“Our goal is to double revenue from last year. Everything we do, we have to see a very clear link to revenue in the short term, knowing that whatever we build will drive revenue instantaneously. If you say you can’t [see a way to make money off of it] today, but you’ll figure it out tomorrow, you pro…”— Jim VandeHei, digiday.com
“Here’s the problem: No matter how hard Google and Facebook try to help publishers, they will do more to hurt them, because that’s the way they’re supposed to work. They’re built to eviscerate publishers.”— Peter Kafka, recode.net
“I don’t think Facebook becomes a no man’s land for publishers, but there will be a steeper slope from publishers who do well on the platform and the mediocre middle who didn’t necessarily design content specific to Facebook’s environment. It also means that the cost of branded content may go up as o…”— Noah Mallin, digiday.com