Raybearer is a 2020 young adult fantasy novel by Nigerian American writer Jordan Ifueko . Ifueko's debut , it was published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams , on August 18, 2020.
55-564: It is the first of two books in the Raybearer series. A continuation, Redemptor , followed in 2021. It was included in the New York Times Bestseller list . It received many awards and acclaim. A young girl, Tarisai, is bound by a magical wish made by her mother, who is absent and distant in Tarisai's early life. Tarisai has the ability to see the stories of other people's lives with
110-460: A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and planned to acquire Complex Networks . After initially listing on Nasdaq at $ 10 a share, valuing the company at around $ 1.5 billion, the share price subsequently declined to under $ 1 by 2023, leading to a delisting notice by Nasdaq in May 2023, requiring them to raise the share price above $ 1 within 180 days or risk being removed from the exchange. Once
165-686: A child of immigrants in California. In September 2021, it was announced that Netflix will be adapting the novel into a television series, under a new overall deal with Gina Atwater. The project will be produced by Suger23 and Macro Television Studios with Atwater as writer, director and producer. Raybearer is a New York Times Bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by People , BuzzFeed , New York Public Library , Chicago Public Library , Kirkus Reviews , School Library Journal , and Publishers Weekly . The book has received many positive reviews. Entertainment Weekly called
220-576: A combined total of over 17 million followers. In January 2024, a lot of the Animation Lab team were laid off (including Loryn Brantz ), leading to the cancellations of Weird Helga and The Good Advice Cupcake . The most interesting thing to me is that it traveled. It went from New York media circle-jerk Twitter to international. And you could see it in my Twitter notifications because people started having conversations in, like, Spanish and Portuguese and then Japanese and Chinese and Thai and Arabic. It
275-439: A cookbook. The company also operates international versions of Tasty . Tasty has also released its own kitchenware, which includes several products such as spatulas, cooking sheets, and mixing bowls. These products are sold in collaboration with Walmart. Tasty also sells their "One Top", which is a smart induction cooktop, as well as "Tasty Kits", which are kits that contains cooking items for cooking at home. In light of
330-465: A link to popular content. The messages were sent based on algorithms which examined the links that were being quickly disseminated, scouring through the feeds of hundreds of blogs that were aggregating them . Later, the site began spotlighting the most popular links that BuzzBot found. Peretti hired curators to help describe the content that was popular around the web. In 2011, Peretti hired Politico ' s Ben Smith, who earlier had achieved much attention as
385-523: A news site. In a subsequent Pew report based on 2014 surveys, BuzzFeed was among the least trusted sources by millennials . A 2016 study by the Columbia Journalism Review found readers less likely to trust a story (originally published in Mother Jones ) that appeared to originate on BuzzFeed than the same article on The New Yorker website. In a 2017 survey among US readers, BuzzFeed
440-500: A political blogger, to assemble a news operation in addition to the many aggregated "listicles". In 2016, BuzzFeed formally separated its news and entertainment content into BuzzFeed News and the newly formed BuzzFeed Entertainment Group, which also includes BuzzFeed Motion Pictures. As of 2016 , BuzzFeed had correspondents from 12 countries, and foreign editions in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and
495-578: A satirical piece entitled "Suggested BuzzFeed Articles", prompting BuzzFeed to create many of the suggestions. BuzzFeed listed McSweeney's as a "Community Contributor". The post subsequently received more than 350,000 page views, prompted BuzzFeed to ask for user submissions, and received media attention. Subsequently, the website launched the "Community" section in May 2013 to enable users to submit content. Users initially are limited to publishing only one post per day, but may increase their submission capacity by raising their "Cat Power", described on
550-566: A single photography company. In June 2020, BuzzFeed News senior reporter Ryan Broderick was fired after it was revealed he had "plagiarized or misattributed information in at least 11 of his articles." In October 2014, a Pew Research Center survey found that in the United States, BuzzFeed was viewed as an unreliable source by the majority of people, regardless of political affiliation. Adweek noted that most respondents had not heard of BuzzFeed, and many users do not consider BuzzFeed
605-455: A social media food brand. The moves marked a retreat for the company after its December 2021 public listing done to finance acquisitions and came during a difficult period for media companies. It also announced layoffs. In July 2024, the company sold travel-brand Bring Me! to media publisher LOST iN. In May 2024, activist investor Vivek Ramaswamy acquired a 7.7% stake in BuzzFeed, making him
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#1732876442500660-541: A touch, while her story unfolds and is yet to be seen. She discovers that while her mother, known as The Lady, is human, her father is a magical being known as an "alagbato". She was conceived to fulfill her mother's plot to kill the Crown Prince. The Lady sends Tarisal to the city of Oluwan, the capital of the Aritsar Empire in order to train and compete to become one of the Crown Prince's closest confidantes. If Tarisai
715-549: A variety of topics including politics, DIY , animals, and business. BuzzFeed generates revenue through native advertising , a strategy that helps increase the likelihood of viewers reading through the content of advertisements. In late 2011, BuzzFeed hired Ben Smith of Politico as editor-in-chief, to expand the site into long-form journalism and reportage under the BuzzFeed News banner. After years of investment in investigative journalism, by 2021 BuzzFeed News had won
770-562: Is a 2021 young adult fantasy novel by Nigerian American writer Jordan Ifueko , published on August 17, 2021 by Abrams Books . It is the sequel to Raybearer and the last book in the Raybearer duology. Following the events of the previous book, Empress Tarisai forms her own council of eleven connected by the Ray and works as the High Lady Judge alongside Emperor Ekundayo while also trying to fulfill her promise of sacrificing herself to
825-620: Is an act of disrespect to the reader", Smith said. "We are deeply embarrassed and sorry to have misled you." In total, 41 instances of plagiarism were found and corrected. In 2016, claims surfaced of the YouTube channel BuzzFeedVideo stealing ideas and content from other creators. BuzzFeed has been the subject of multiple copyright infringement lawsuits, for both using content it had no rights to and encouraging its proliferation without attributing its sources: one for an individual photographer's photograph, and another for nine celebrity photographs from
880-455: Is one of the best YA fantasies I’ve read in a long time”. Buzzfeed named Redemptor one of the best books of August 2021, saying it was "[i]mmersive and gorgeously written." BuzzFeed This is an accepted version of this page BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media , news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media . Based in New York City , BuzzFeed
935-446: Is picked, she will be joined with the other members of a council through the Ray, a bond considered deeper than blood. In the end, Tarisai resists her mother's plan for her. Ifueko began writing the novel in its early stage as a teenager. The novel is set in a secondary world based on the author's Nigerian heritage and other world cultures . It was influenced by Ifueko's knowledge of West African culture, civilizations and experiences as
990-593: Is similar, in that three items or experiences are valued from different companies, each at their different price point, but focus on material items and experiences, such as plane seats, hotel rooms, and haircuts. Lim left BuzzFeed in 2019 to start his own production company Watcher. BuzzFeed Unsolved was the most successful web series on BuzzFeed's BuzzFeed Multiplayer. The show was created by Ryan Bergara and features both him and Shane Madej (who replaced original co-host Brent Bennett). The show covers some of history's most famous unsolved mysteries, presenting them and
1045-464: The COVID-19 pandemic , on March 25, 2020, BuzzFeed announced in an internal memo that it would cut employee salaries on a sliding scale of 5% (lowest income bracket) up to 25% (highest income bracket). Peretti said he would not be taking a salary until the end of the pandemic. Many staffers expressed relief at this announcement as there were no layoffs. On May 13, 2020, the company shut down its divisions in
1100-462: The Huffington Post , Peretti started BuzzFeed (originally called BuzzFeed Laboratories) as a side project, in partnership with his former supervisor John Johnson. In the beginning, BuzzFeed employed no writers or editors, just an "algorithm to cull stories from around the web that were showing stirrings of virality." The site initially launched an instant messaging client, BuzzBot, which sent users
1155-705: The National Magazine Award , the George Polk Award , and the Pulitzer Prize , and was nominated for the Michael Kelly Award . BuzzFeed News later moved to its own domain rather than existing as a section of the main BuzzFeed website. On April 20, 2023, Peretti announced that BuzzFeed would be shuttering BuzzFeed News and focusing its news efforts into HuffPost , laying off about 180 workers. A 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that in
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#17328764425001210-549: The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz , more than doubling previous rounds of funding. The site was reportedly valued at around $ 850 million by Andreessen Horowitz. BuzzFeed generates its advertising revenue through native advertising that matches its editorial content, and does not rely on banner ads. BuzzFeed also uses its familiarity with social media to target conventional advertising through other channels, such as Facebook. In December 2014, growth equity firm General Atlantic acquired $ 50 million in secondary stock of
1265-480: The $ 1 a share threshold. According to Reuters, British media group The Independent is reportedly discussing a multi-year agreement to acquire control of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post 's operations in the UK and Ireland . In February 2024, BuzzFeed announced the sale of Complex to NTWRK, a livestream shopping platform, even as it would retain some popular franchises. At the same time, it reportedly considered selling Tasty,
1320-737: The Abiku by going to the Underworld to stop the death of 200 Redemptors as the Ojiji, spirits of dead Redemptor children begin to haunt her. Meanwhile, an activist called the Crocodile is turning the mind of peasants and miners away from the empire's noble class, which has thus far abused their authority under the empire. Tarisai must fight to rectify the past crimes of the empire while retaining her sanity. The book received generally positive receptions from reviewers and readers. A review from Kirkus Reviews called
1375-930: The BuzzFeed News division would close on April 20, 2023. BuzzFeed Video, BuzzFeed Motion Picture's flagship YouTube channel, produces original content. Its production studio and team are based in Los Angeles. Since hiring Ze Frank in 2012, BuzzFeed Video has produced several video series, including " The Try Guys ". In August 2014, the company announced a new division, BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, which may produce feature-length films. As of September 1, 2021, BuzzFeed Video's YouTube channel had garnered more than 17.4 billion views and more than 20.3 million subscribers. BuzzFeed later announced that YouTube signed on for two feature-length series to be created by BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, entitled Broke and Squad Wars . BuzzFeed started an in-house podcasting team in 2015, through which
1430-405: The BuzzFeed website as "an official measure of your rank in BuzzFeed's Community." A user's Cat Power increases as they achieve greater prominence on the site. In January 2017, BuzzFeed's user-generated community content accumulated 100 million views. In February 2019, BuzzFeed News voted to unionize, following major layoffs. A dispute between BuzzFeed's upper executives and the union began when
1485-720: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, "Tasty" streamed the Saturday Night Seder , an online Passover Seder that featured many celebrities and benefited the CDC Foundation . Since 2016, Tasty also sponsors a show named Worth It starring Steven Lim, Andrew Ilnyckyj, and Adam Bianchi. In each episode, the trio visit three different food places with three drastically different price points in one food category. Steven Lim also stars in BuzzFeed Blue's "Worth It – Lifestyle" videos. The series
1540-453: The UK and Australia, furloughing 10 news staff in the UK as well as four in its Australian outpost. According to a news from June 24, 2021 on Variety, BuzzFeed, valued at $ 1.5 billion through a SPAC deal, is to go public and acquire Complex Networks for $ 300 million. BuzzFeed raised $ 16.2M in its latest funding round, which was Post IPO round held on Dec 03, 2021. BuzzFeed's first acquisition
1595-675: The United Kingdom. By the end of 2017 , BuzzFeed employed around 1,700 employees worldwide, although it announced plans in November of that year to lay off around 100 employees in the US, 45 in the UK, and 100 in France in June 2018. On January 23, 2019, BuzzFeed notified all employees via memo that there would be an upcoming 15% reduction in workforce affecting the international, web content, and news divisions of
1650-515: The United States, BuzzFeed was viewed as an unreliable source by the majority of respondents, regardless of age or political affiliation. The company's audience has been described as left-leaning . Prior to establishing BuzzFeed, Peretti was director of research and development and the OpenLab at Eyebeam , Johnson's New York City-based art and technology nonprofit organization, where he experimented with other viral media. In 2006, while working at
1705-525: The book "dazzling." Buzzfeed said it was "one of the most exceptional YA fantasies of all time." People said it was a "brilliantly conceived fantasy." Seventeen called it a "bold new world," and PopSugar lauded Ifueko's "exquisitely detailed world." A sequel titled Redemptor was published in August 2021. Buzzfeed named Redemptor one of the best books of August 2021, saying it was "[i]mmersive and gorgeously written." Redemptor Redemptor
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1760-754: The comedian Gallagher , and "just as stupid-funny, but with incredible immediacy and zero production costs". The video is seen as part of Facebook's strategy to shift to live video, Facebook Live , to counter the rise of Snapchat and Periscope among a younger audience. BuzzFeed has been accused of plagiarizing original content from competitors from the online and offline press. In June 2012, Gawker 's Adrian Chen observed that one of BuzzFeed's most popular writers— Matt Stopera —frequently copied and pasted "chunks of text into lists without attribution." In March 2013, The Atlantic Wire also reported several "listicles" had apparently been copied from Reddit and other websites. In July 2014, BuzzFeed writer Benny Johnson
1815-451: The common Class A shares Ramaswamy had purchased. 90% of Class B shares are held by founder Peretti and close associates, meaning that Ramaswamy has little voting power despite his large shareholding. BuzzFeed produces daily content, in which the work of staff reporters, contributors, syndicated cartoon artists, and its community are featured. Popular formats on the website include lists, videos, and quizzes. The style of such content inspired
1870-819: The company uses this formula to let editors, users, and advertisers try many different ideas, which maximizes distribution. Staff writers are ranked by views on an internal leaderboard. In 2014, BuzzFeed received 75% of its views from links on social media outlets such as Pinterest , Twitter , and Facebook . BuzzFeed's video series on comfort food , Tasty , is made for Facebook , where it has 100 million followers as of December 2019. The channel has substantially more views than BuzzFeed's dedicated food site. The channel included five spinoff segments: "Tasty Junior"—which eventually spun off into its own page, "Tasty Happy Hour" (alcoholic beverages), "Tasty Fresh", "Tasty Vegetarian", and "Tasty Story"—which has celebrities making and discussing their own recipes. Tasty has also released
1925-550: The company. In August 2015, NBCUniversal made a $ 200 million equity investment in BuzzFeed. Along with plans to hire more journalists to build a more prominent "investigative" unit, BuzzFeed planned on hiring journalists around the world and plans to open outposts in India, Germany, Mexico, and Japan. It planned on hiring staff for its UK bureau, its rapidly-expanding motion picture unit and its food-themed business, Tasty. NBCUniversal invested an additional $ 200 million in 2016 after
1980-882: The company. The layoffs would affect approximately 200 employees. In 2020, BuzzFeed signed a deal with Universal Television to produce content based on its stories. Three top BuzzFeed News editors in March 2022 announced that they would be resigning and the newsroom would face voluntary layoffs or job cuts. The cuts came after BuzzFeed investors encouraged Peretti to shut down all of BuzzFeed News , but he refused, CNBC reported. BuzzFeed raised $ 3.5 million in 2008 through Hearst Ventures and Softbank. In 2011, BuzzFeed ran more than 100 social media campaigns, resulting in their revenue tripling compared to 2010. In January 2012, BuzzFeed announced that it had earned $ 15.5 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates , Lerer Ventures, Hearst Interactive Media, Softbank, and RRE Capital to expand
2035-430: The deadline for this notice passed in November 2023 with the stock price still below $ 1, they were given a further 180 days until May 2024. By January 2024, the stock price of the company had declined 98% since its initial listing, with the entire company now only worth around $ 37 million, and the company was significantly burdened with debt. In May 2024, BuzzFeed implemented a 4:1 reverse stock split , bringing them above
2090-741: The end of each episode, Ned and Ariel would decide whether they preferred the home-cooked meal (and the accompanying ambiance and price tag) or the meal at the restaurant. However, the couple left BuzzFeed with the Try Guys in 2018, and the series was subsequently canceled. Around 2017, BuzzFeed launched Animation Lab with a focus on short-form animation content that is posted on platforms such as Instagram , TikTok and later YouTube and Twitter . The studio has launched 30 projects during its existence, 4 of which have since been focused on due to finding success ( Weird Helga , The Good Advice Cupcake , The Land of Boggs , and Chikn Nuggit ), which as of 2021 had
2145-591: The executives failed to show up to a meeting. BuzzFeed receives the majority of its traffic by creating content that is shared on social media websites. BuzzFeed works by judging their content on how viral it will become, operating in a "continuous feedback loop" where all of its articles and videos are used as input for its sophisticated data operation. The site continues to test and track their custom content with an in-house team of data scientists and an external-facing "social dashboard". Using an algorithm dubbed "Viral Rank" created by Jonah Peretti and Duncan Watts ,
2200-559: The fourth-largest shareholder, which he later increased to 8.37%. Ramaswamy said that he thought the company was undervalued, and that he wanted to shift the company's political leanings, such by hiring right-wing media personalities. Elizabeth Lopatto, writing in The Verge , called his effort futile, as voting power in Buzzfeed is primarily in Class B shares, which have 50 times the voting power of
2255-423: The novel “A strong and worthy successor that showcases the skill of a master worldbuilder.” A review from NPR states that “Redemptor continues the breathtakingly beautiful tale of a young woman who is being torn apart by the responsibilities of being both empress and sacrifice”. Alex Brown in a review for Locus stated that “this is a series begging to be reread. Jordan Ifueko’s West African-influenced duology
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2310-484: The parody website ClickHole . While BuzzFeed initially was focused exclusively on such viral content, according to The New York Times , "it added more traditional content, building a track record for delivering breaking news and deeply reported articles" in the years up to 2014. In that year, BuzzFeed deleted over 4000 early posts, "apparently because, as time passed, they looked stupider and stupider", as observed by The New Yorker . BuzzFeed consistently ranked at
2365-480: The podcasts Another Round and Internet Explorer were developed and launched. In September 2018, BuzzFeed shut down its podcast department and laid off the staff due to a lack of desired ad revenue. It cancelled most of its podcasts, including See Something, Say Something . In late January 2019, they fired 200 staff across the company and cancelled the remaining podcast, Thirst Aid Kit . On July 17, 2012, humor website McSweeney's Internet Tendency published
2420-448: The results. In June 2018, the four left BuzzFeed and created their own independent channel, also titled " The Try Guys ". Night In/Night Out was a series run by Ned and Ariel Fulmer. This show features the couple on two different dates, one at home featuring a homemade meal (using a BuzzFeed Tasty Recipe) and one at a restaurant in the Los Angeles area. Each episode focuses on one particular meal, such as baked salmon or hamburgers. At
2475-434: The site's social media team, who immediately began arguing about the dress colors among themselves. After creating a simple poll for users of the site, she left work and took the subway back to her Brooklyn home. When she got off the train and checked her telephone, it was overwhelmed by the messages on various sites. "I couldn't open Twitter because it kept crashing. I thought somebody had died, maybe. I didn't know what
2530-515: The site's content. Later, in October 2012, BuzzFeed ran sponsored content for the Obama administration leading to an increase in ad revenue. By January 2013, BuzzFeed announced that New Enterprise Associates had raised $ 19.3 million. The company was reported to be profitable in 2013. In 2014, it was reported that BuzzFeed had passed $ 100 million in revenue. In August 2014, BuzzFeed raised $ 50 million from
2585-400: The theories that surround them in a comedic manner. In some episodes, they visit the places involved with the mystery. Many of these episodes focus on the supernatural or paranormal and often include the pair ghost hunting during the investigations. In late 2019, Bergara and Madej started their own digital production company, Watcher Entertainment, with Worth It's Steven Lim ; however,
2640-497: The top of NewsWhip 's "Facebook Publisher Rankings" from December 2013 to April 2014, until The Huffington Post entered the position. BuzzFeed's news division began in December 2011 with the appointment of Ben Smith as editor-in-chief. In 2013, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schoofs of ProPublica was hired as head of investigative reporting . By 2016, BuzzFeed had 20 investigative journalists. Chief executive Jonah Peretti announced
2695-596: The two companies had collaborated on many projects, namely the Rio Olympics . The companies planned to work together to market themselves to advertisers. Together, Comcast and its NBCUniversal subsidiary own about a third of BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed has said that it intends to stay independent. After laying off 100 employees in 2017, BuzzFeed laid off 200 of its employees in 2019 to help facilitate growth despite raising revenue by 15% from 2017 to 2018. Facebook began funding two BuzzFeed News shows in 2019 for Watch . Because of
2750-480: The two continued collaborating with BuzzFeed to produce BuzzFeed Unsolved until November 2021. The spiritual successor to BuzzFeed Unsolved is Ghost Files , a documentary entertainment web series by Watcher Entertainment that was first released on September 23, 2022. The Try Guys are a trio of friends ( Eugene Lee Yang , Zach Kornfeld , Keith Habersberger , and formerly Ned Fulmer ) who put themselves in different, and at times, compromising situations and record
2805-576: Was accused of multiple instances of plagiarism. Two anonymous Twitter users chronicled Johnson attributing work that was not his own, but "directly lift[ed] from other reporters, Misplaced Pages , and Yahoo! Answers ", all without credit. BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith initially defended Johnson, calling him a "deeply original writer". Days later, Smith acknowledged that Johnson had plagiarized the work of others 40 times and announced that Johnson had been fired, apologizing to BuzzFeed readers. "Plagiarism, much less copying unchecked facts from Misplaced Pages or other sources,
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#17328764425002860-421: Was amazing to watch this move from a local thing to, like, a massive international phenomenon. Cates Holderness In February 2015, a post resulting in a debate over the color of an item of clothing from BuzzFeed's Tumblr editor Cates Holderness garnered more than 28 million views in one day, setting a record for most concurrent visitors to a BuzzFeed post. Holderness had shown the picture to other members of
2915-425: Was founded in 2006 by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III to focus on tracking viral content. Kenneth Lerer , co-founder and chairman of The Huffington Post , started as a co-founder and investor in BuzzFeed and is now the executive chairman . Originally known for online quizzes, " listicles ", and pop culture articles, the company has grown into a global media and technology company, providing coverage on
2970-417: Was going on." Later in the evening the page set a new record at BuzzFeed for concurrent visitors , which reached 673,000 at its peak. On April 8, 2016, two BuzzFeed interns created a live stream on Facebook , during which rubber bands were wrapped one by one around a watermelon until the pressure caused it to explode . The Daily Dot compared it to something from America's Funniest Home Videos or by
3025-491: Was in 2012 when the company purchased Kingfish Labs, a startup founded by Rob Fishman , initially focused on optimizing Facebook ads. In October 2014, BuzzFeed announced its next acquisition, Torando Labs, which would become BuzzFeed's first data-engineering team. On November 19, 2020, BuzzFeed announced that they would acquire HuffPost in a stock deal that made Verizon Media minority shareholder in BuzzFeed. In June 2021, BuzzFeed announced its plans to go public via
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