Virgin Mobile's Faris Helps Steinberg Pitch Buzzfeed

Brand's manager, site's president talk up social content's success

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Buzzfeed president Jon Steinberg took the stage at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO Monday, to make the now-familiar case for his publication's unique, content-based advertising model—this time, with the help of Virgin Mobile brand director Ron Faris.

During a seminar titled Social's New Starting Point: Brands as Publishers and Harnessing Supersharers, sponsored by Buzzfeed and part of the Creative Week 2012, Steinberg ran through a slideshow presentation that included pictures of Basset Hounds running, and offered his (interested) perspective on the future of news.

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