BuzzFeed's Jon Steinberg Trumpets Shift to Hard News

Adweek: Tell me about BuzzFeed’s Social Storytelling program, which you launched in May. Jon Steinberg: It’s very much evocative of the kind of authorization and training programs that we did when I was at Google [where Steinberg was strategic partner development manager on the company’s small medium business partnerships team], and we’ve seen Facebook do as well. Basically, when you have a new format or new ad product, you can’t just expect people to start using it. You have to offer training and accreditation and help. So the Social Storytelling program is very much a training program. We’re basically taking the training and education programs that we have for all new BuzzFeed hires, whether they’re on the business side or product side or creative side, and offering them up to agencies so they can understand how to use our dashboard and publishing system to create content that’s really good for young people and native to the Web. Your editorial side is completely separate from the group who works on sponsored posts, right? Yeah, we've been very rigorous about this. There’s a team of about 25 people that work on creative who are totally separate from the team of 90 people that does reporting. When I got here three years, we were 15 people, and we just crossed 300 people, not including interns. You also partnered with CNN to produce co-branded news videos earlier this summer. Do you think that BuzzFeed videos can achieve the same vitality as your lists and other... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

[ AdWeek | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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