HuffPost

HuffPost is a digital news brand owned by BuzzFeed, Inc., which describes itself as “a premier digital media company” and names HuffPost, BuzzFeed and Tasty as its “iconic, globally-loved brands.”

Corporate Position

BuzzFeed reports its business as a single segment and derives revenue chiefly from digital advertising. It states that audiences spent more than 276 million hours with its content in 2025, citing Comscore and comparing itself against a competitive set of Condé Nast Digital, Vox Media, People, Inc. and Bustle Digital Group. That figure covers all BuzzFeed brands, not HuffPost alone.

Sourcing Note

The founded: 2005 value is removed — BuzzFeed’s filings do not state it and no first-party HuffPost page could be fetched (huffpost.com/static/about-us returns HTTP 406 to automated clients). The reach line “110 million monthly visitors globally” is removed for the same reason.

The arianna-huffington connection, describing her as co-founder and “editor-in-chief until 2016,” is removed: the slug does not resolve to a page in this knowledge base and no fetched source states the role or the date.

Also removed as unsourceable: the account of the “blog-to-newsroom model” and the “vast network of blogger contributors”; the claim that the site “positioned itself as a liberal counterpart to conservative digital outlets like the Drudge Report” — an unsourced political characterization of two outlets at once; the claims that it “was among the first to fully integrate social media sharing” and “helped establish standards for digital political journalism, including fact-checking practices”; and the closing assertion that it “played a crucial role in legitimizing digital-first political journalism.”

Nothing here should be read as doubting HuffPost’s history. It is simply not evidenced by anything that could be fetched, and the corporate filing is the only source this page now rests on.