Walmart and Tasty partner to launch Shoppable Recipes

Walmart and Tasty partner to launch Shoppable Recipes

Walmart and Buzzfeed’s Tasty have partnered to launch a new in-app feature, Shoppable Recipes, which lets viewers add ingredients from a Tasty video straight to their Walmart grocery cart. To use the feature, customers need to download the Tasty app, where they can choose from 4,000 recipes. Once a recipe has been picked, a one-click process will […]

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed to reach audiences in China through licensing deal with Bytedance

BuzzFeed has signed a licensing deal with China’s Bytedance Technology Co, which will help the American publisher circumvent the country’s firewall and enter the Chinese market. The Chinese publisher owns Toutiao, a news and videos aggregator platform, and Xigua, which focuses on short video clips. It currently has about 200 million daily active users around […]

Walmart and Jet are joining forces with BuzzFeed in their quest for millennial shoppers

Walmart and Jet are joining forces with BuzzFeed in their quest for millennial shoppers

Walmart has struck a deal with BuzzFeed’s Tasty app to help the retailer sell its kitchen tools, appliances, and groceries to the viral recipe hub’s tens of millions of followers. Starting December 7, Tasty’s step-by-step recipe videos will contain links to buy products featured in the videos — such as pots and pans, bakeware, and […]

Buzzfeed and Brit+Co use OmniVirt technology to deliver innovation in 360° Creative

Buzzfeed and Brit+Co use OmniVirt technology to deliver innovation in 360° Creative

Buzzfeed and Brit+Co are using OmniVirt’s technology to deliver 360° photos and interactive 360° video for the latest Samsung holiday campaign. In its continued effort to promote ways that people can create and share 360° content, Samsung has teamed up with Buzzfeed and Brit+Co to showcase the power of its newest Gear 360 camera. Both campaigns […]

eBay dives into Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages

eBay dives into Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages

Online marketplace eBay is one of the first retailers to try Google’s AMP, which allows mobile sites to load as fast as possible on smartphones. eBay Inc. is making sure its mobile site not only loads fast, but loads instantly. The online marketplace recently updated some of its mobile pages with Google Inc.’s Accelerated Mobile […]

Snapchat Discover gets a reader-friendly makeover, giving users the chance to subscribe to channels

Snapchat Discover gets a reader-friendly makeover, giving users the chance to subscribe to channels

Snapchat has revealed a fresh look for its Discover and Stories section, in a bid to boost its audience and keep publishers using the platform happy. Active media owners on the platform, which include the likes of Daily Mail, Mashable and BuzzFeed, will now see their content distributed in a more magazine-like style, which places […]

Snapchat Plans to Redesign Discover

Snapchat Plans to Redesign Discover

The new look will allow publishers including Vice, Daily Mail, BuzzFeed and Cosmopolitan to show off their content instead of the current logos. It is understood that the revamp could be as soon as next month, according to VentureBeat. The site also said that the new look is being shared with people on the site. […]