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BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti: news publishers only have themselves to blame for losing out to Google and Facebook

on Jun 29, 2017 | 0 comments

By Ian Burrell

BuzzFeed founder and chief executive Jonah Peretti says that traditional news businesses which are “opportunistically” attacking Facebook and Google only have themselves to blame for their demise after choosing not to invest more in digital despite “decades of massive cashflow”.

Peretti, 43, has been one of the most influential figures in shaping the digital information landscape, having been a co-founder of the Huffington Post (now HuffPost) before launching BuzzFeed in 2006. Today it registers 9bn monthly content views across all platforms, substantially more than any other publisher. It has 200 million unique monthly users of its website, and with Read full story ›

Source: The Drum