Crossing the content generation gap | Ben Huh | TEDxPoynterInstitute

Описание: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It’s not about our age. It’s about evolving the product formerly known as content. The initial
success of New Media is now being eclipsed by NEW New Media. Ben Huh will explain why
linear evolution in media has failed and how thinking about products creates room for radical new ideas in organizations.

Ben Huh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cheezburger (http://cheezburger.com). The former journalist turned successful entrepreneur has been credited with pioneering Internet culture as entertainment, crowdsourcing, and bringing Internet memes to the mainstream.

Since first acquiring I Can Has Cheezburger? in 2007, Huh has grown the media company to now include more than 50 online humor sites that generate more than 400 million page views monthly. His Internet culture empire includes popular sites such as FAIL Blog, The Daily What, Know Your Meme and Memebase. Cheezburger has also released five books, two of which are New York Times bestsellers, and was the focus of the LOLwork reality television series, which aired on the Bravo network in 2012.

The Internet culture connoisseur has been featured in many high-profile media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Mashable, WIRED, Inc., and TIME. He was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in the Business” by Fast Company, and was recognized as one of the “Top 10 Worst Dressed Men in Silicon Valley” by GQ. In 2011, Huh received the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and in 2012, he received Newsweek’s “100 Most Influential Digital Disrupters.”

As a top industry expert, Huh has been tapped to speak on numerous panels at leading conferences including SXSW, TEDx, Ad Age Digital SF, Engadget Expand and Web Summit. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Circa, an online journalism startup which re-imagines the way people will consume news.

Huh holds a BSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and resides in Seattle with his wife Emily.

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