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BuzzFeed Brings On HuffPost’s Andy Wiedlin As Chief Revenue Officer

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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Huffington Post SVP of Sales Andy Wiedlin is moving on to BuzzFeed this week, joining the viral content-focused startup as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to his position at HuffPost, Weidlin held down the fort as VP of East Coast Sales at Myspace and put in a five-year stint at Yahoo as VP of Sales for the Northwest.

In his hiring press release, Wiedlin emphasized that the fact that Buzzfeed’s was ideally positioned technology and content-wise to ride the current social shift happening in media factored largely in his decision to move to the small company. At BuzzFeed Wiedlin will be directly under Buzzfeed CEO (and HuffPost co-founder) Jonah Peretti.

BuzzFeed, which basically has Internet virality down to a science, presently has over 13 million monthly unique visitors on site, with the BuzzFeed affiliate “viral media” network reaching an additional 225 million.

Wiedlin will presumably be tasked with putting some advertiser money where all those rapt eyeballs are.

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Company: BuzzFeed
Website: buzzfeed.com
Launch Date: 2008
Funding: $46.3M

BuzzFeed is a leading social news organization, intensely focused on delivering high-quality original reporting, insight, and viral content across a rapidly expanding array of subject areas. Our technology powers the social distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the moment. Our site is rapidly growing and reaches more than 20 million monthly unique visitors. Jonah Peretti, founder & CEO of BuzzFeed, previously co-founded the Huffington Post....

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Person: Andy Wiedlin
Companies: BuzzFeed, MySpace, Yahoo!, Wedding Channel, iVillage

Andy Wiedlin is the Vice President of East Coast sales for Myspace. Formerly he was the regional vice president of northwest sales at Yahoo! where he led a team of seasoned media sales professionals focusing on Fortune 200 accounts. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2003, Andy was a sales director at iVillage & BlueMountainArts, and the VP of Sales for WeddingChannel.com. Before diving into online in 1999, Andy spent several years with AT&T International/Bell Labs. He spent 10 years working...

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