BuzzFeed Named One Of The Most Iconic Companies In Internet History

New York, NY – September 17, 2025 – The Webby Awards have named BuzzFeed as one of the most iconic companies in internet history, recognizing BuzzFeed’s role in shaping the way people create, share and experience culture online. Selected as one of just thirty honorees, BuzzFeed is celebrated for its trailblazing influence on virality, short-form storytelling and the joy of the internet at its best.

Over nearly two decades, BuzzFeed has shaped internet culture and history. From viral quizzes, hilarious and heartfelt videos, groundbreaking news reporting, mouthwatering recipe creations and so much more, BuzzFeed is home to the best of the internet. 

Watch BuzzFeed’s sizzle reel here. 

The full list of honorees can be found here. 

From The Webby Awards 30 Most Iconic Companies of All Time: 

First recognized at The Webby Awards as a Cultural Blog/Website Honoree in 2012, it became the place where quizzes, listicles, and “50 Animal Pictures You Need To See Before You Die” spread like wildfire, revealing an algorithmic Internet in its infancy. BuzzFeed Video, honored by the Webbys numerous times, scaled short-form storytelling into billions of views and launched creators like Quinta Brunson and the Try Guys. Tasty, honored first in 2017, became one of the Internet’s most influential cooking shows, while “Puppy and Kitten Interviews,” also honored in 2018, distilled celebrity culture into pure Internet joy. And BuzzFeed News proved the outlet born of memes could deliver scoops with global consequence, including its 2018 investigation into China’s Xinjiang internment camps. BuzzFeed showed how the Internet could reflect and shape human behavior at scale, pioneering formats that continue to influence digital culture today.

About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. is home to the best of the internet. Across entertainment, news, food, pop culture and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, buy, and obsess over next. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to making it better: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. 

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