The fact that there's a "Which Stolen Louvre Heist Jewelry Piece Are You?" is going to be even funnier years from now.

BuzzFeed is shutting down its BuzzFeed News operation, with CEO Jonah Peretti writing in a company memo that it "can no longer continue to fund" the site. The company, known for a millennial-friendly ...

If you’ve been around BuzzFeed for a while, you already know we cover a lot. One minute we’re helping you discover which type of bread best matches your soul, and the next we’re breaking down ...

A decade ago, BuzzFeed was redefining what news and entertainment on the web meant. The website’s mix of hard-hitting news, in-depth features, and viral listicles offered a vision of the future for ...

The ur-viral content site BuzzFeed has often served as a trailblazer — and sometimes a canary in the coal mine — for the digital media industry. Now, its struggle to succeed after a pivot to ...

BuzzFeed’s revenue is in free fall, and the company is counting on the robots to save it. Q2 revenue was down 27% YOY to $77.9 million from $106.8 million. In fact, all three of BuzzFeed’s main ...

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BuzzFeed News, a pioneer of the digital news landscape over the past decade, will shut down, the company’s CEO said in a memo to staff Thursday morning, noting the business model of news tailored for ...

BuzzFeed has sold First We Feast, the food-centered brand behind the popular YouTube interview show “Hot Ones,” to a group of investors for $82.5 million, ending a months-long search and raising cash ...

Online media company BuzzFeed plans to use artificial intelligence powered by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, to help it generate content. In a memo distributed to BuzzFeed staff on Thursday and ...

Peretti, who proudly announced in May 2023 that AI will “replace the majority of static content,” and gloated that its AI-generated content was outperforming its pesky human employees, has seemingly ...

BuzzFeed said in January that it would start using AI to write quizzes and other content — and now we’re seeing some of what the “other” content might look like. Specifically, it looks a lot like the ...