“The PopSugar playbook was all about its verticals: “pets, finance, food, all the way through.”— Geoff Schiller, digiday.com
“BuzzFeed’s core strength has always been our ability to adapt and innovate as the world changes. When BuzzFeed started, smart phones didn’t exist, the social platforms were just for personal updates, and digital video provided a terrible user experience. At the time, BuzzFeed was a website for deskt…”— Jonah Peretti, buzzfeed.com
“Twitter has also made a seemingly unforced implementation error: the list of Topics you subscribe to is public, just like the list of profiles you follow.”— Scott Duke, finance.yahoo.com
“SmugMug acquired Flickr two years ago, and since then, Flickr has gone through a series of tumultuous changes.”— 9to5 Mac, 9to5mac.com
“Together, Rubicon Project and Telaria will enable thousands of publishers to connect with hundreds of buyers and brands, creating a global, independent alternative to closed players in the ecosystem.”— Rubicon, rubiconproject.com
“It’s been a memorable 2019 in the world of news media and politics that we here at Mediaite cover on a daily basis.”— Elura Nanos, mediaite.com
“Consumer, creators, and distributors alike will benefit from collaborative solutions that make content more secure and curtail unauthorized copyright use and distribution, while preserving the customer’s ability to enjoy the content rights they’ve purchased on the network, platform, device, and loca…”— Tom Rutledge, washingtonpost.com
“We’d like to provide that kind of measurement and understanding because it’s going to make marketing better.”— David Fischer, adexchanger.com
“Barstool Sports has sold more than 30,000 people on its Barstool Gold subscription product.”— Erika Nardini, digiday.com
“Imagine an alcohol brand that wanted to reach female millennials who like to drink in the summer, love nail art and are interested in LGBTQA issues. With its new offering, internally called SponCon, BuzzFeed might take that request and ask its edit team to create five posts that align with the initi…”— Kayleigh Barber, digiday.com
“But if that link weren’t there, presumably they would click on the link just below it: the free link to eBay.com. The data consultants were basing their profit calculations on clicks they would be getting anyway.”— Jesse and Maurits, thecorrespondent.com
“Two years ago, a series of “Why I Left BuzzFeed” videos popped up on YouTube, with past employees complaining they were not allowed to create non-BuzzFeed content while employed by the company. The implication: BuzzFeed wasn’t creator-friendly.”— Kayleigh Barber, digiday.com
“Instagram is about to take its biggest step yet toward removing likes from its platform.”— CNN, cnn.com
“We want people to be less interested in how many likes a post gets, and focus more on connecting with other people.”— Mark Zuckerberg, later.com
“As the company has grown, those inside say they have been worried about the future of their jobs. According to current and former employees who spoke to Business Insider, Goldberg has been quietly cutting staff over the past year. Per the report, BDG let go at least 17 employees in October.”— Amanda Arnold, thecut.com
“Blogging is not like working in a slaughterhouse, grave-digging, diamond-mining, labor organizing, surgery, home healthcare, pediatric oncology, smuggling, teaching, or fighting forest fires. But it's skilled labor, and night- or weekend blogging is a particularly terrifying balancing act, full of p…”— Anna Merlan, vice.com