At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television • Hacker News Board

Re: At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television

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Post by paul7986 » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 5:15 AM UTC

manachar wrote: post #10

paul7986 wrote: post #5

Buzzfeed should also open restaurants and or at least license “Tasty,” to a restaurant juggernaut company so they can create Tasty restaurants. It could be the first social media menu driven restaurant where the most liked Tasty videos/dishes establish the menu. I mean I don't cook, but constantly salivate over their videos.

Their Tasty content is social media gold (well produced food "porn"). It's highly viral and well liked by many people. It's weird to me that you're getting downvotes for suggesting that Buzzfeed take this content and do more with it. I may personally hate the idea of social media popularity being used to dictate the content of a menu, but I suspect there's a kernel of a great idea there. After all, this is essentiall…

Yeah i was initially getting downvoted ... i guess for whatever reason some folks wouldn't go to a social media menu driven restaurant but millions more would Im sure!

Also, they could just license their name to say the owners of Ruby Tuesday's or another dying chain to revitalize itself(at least try something new).

Re: At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television

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Post by overcast » Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 4:17 PM UTC

flukus wrote: post #30

manachar wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can an executive chef be replaced with enough data? I'm inclined to believe so. Also, recipes are not copyrightable or otherwise able to be locked up in some form of intellectual property. Thankfully. I would hate to see a world where I could only buy chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookie recipes from Nestle. Of course, it would be nice if they add attribution as needed, but tough to prove for something like this…

> Can an executive chef be replaced with enough data? I'm inclined to believe so. I want what tastes good to me, not what tastes good to most people. You can't solve personal subjective problems with data.

Especially when the masses enjoy justin bieber, and the olive garden.

Re: At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television

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Post by dghughes » Thu, Oct 26, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

kafkaesq wrote: post #13

dghughes wrote: post #6

I really hope not. Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I couldn't imagine in the 80s The National Enquirer starting a cable TV channel. Maybe the US version of Buzzfeed is different.

Buzzfeed Canada is terrible a slimy tabloid organization I don't doubt this necessarily, but could you provide a quick recap? As in, did they create a slimy tabloid site from scratch? Or did they, like, buy some site that was already slimy, and just continue trudging along in the path of sliminess? Coz like "we needz the ad revenue from the slimy stuff to bankroll our dalliance with serious journalism", and all that.

I avoid the website unless I click a link by mistake. My brief encounters are enough to avoid them. I think there is a difference between the US and Canadian organizations.

The most recent incident was they stated white men need not apply for a job there, they often had anti make or anti white articles. Isn't that racism or at least bigotry?

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/46mrmb/buzzfeed_can...

Re: At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television

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Post by xemdetia » Fri, Oct 27, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

kamphey wrote: post #27

xemdetia wrote: post #3

This makes sense to me because there are a lot of these youtube-esque clones that are finally reaching fairly good production value and can recut what they are building for a youtube format as well as a structured format. It feels like an easy landing area for these premium (in production) web channels, where their content has the youtube value curve of 1-3 days but easily could be repackaged in a form to be resold t…

That is exactly what we're doing at TBD http://www.tbd.com Packaging top quality digital content from YouTube, and vimeo, getting the rights direct from creators and managers. Then repackaging it into 30 minute and 60 minute shows.

Oh neat, I didn't know firms involved yet.