If you’re driven bonkers by the fake viral news stories that proliferate on your Facebook feed, usually posted by that girl you went to high school or your excitable uncle in Vermont,… Read more »
Emerson Spartz started creating viral content websites when he was 12, and now he runs a company that specializes in understanding how content spreads, and why — something more media companies… Read more »
Imagine you watch something funny on TV. You grab your remote control, press a button, and seconds later, that scene arrives in an app on your phone. You edit it down… Read more »
According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it… Read more »
The firm that implied it started the #AlexfromTarget meme now says it was just part of a chain reaction. So was this a naturally spreading viral phenomenon? Read more »
With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the Ice Bucket Challenge is still managing to go viral, with the help of Chinese social network Weibo. Read more »
You might think the market for viral clickbait sites is already saturated, but The Independent newspaper in Britain has launched its own version anyway, called i100 — complete with celebrity gossip,… Read more »
Upworthy often gets lumped in with creators of cheap clickbait content like ViralNova, but the company’s editorial director says it is driven by a different mission: to use social tools to… Read more »
Clickhole is the latest offering from the satirical news site The Onion, and it’s designed to parody the kind of dumbed-down lists, quizzes and viral clickbait used by other media sites… Read more »
In a series of interviews, BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti talked with blogger Felix Salmon about the rise of Huffington Post, the evolution of BuzzFeed and the future of media. It’s really… Read more »