We've just made all of our data and traffic public; and we've done it using our own Viral Dashboard. To our knowledge, we may be the largest publisher on the web to make our internal stats public.
Now, you can see our most viral stories in ranked order, as well as, drill down to the item level to explore the spread of a story. We think this level of data transparency is the future.
This completely algorithmic data is also content. It's a way for users to explore viral content on the basis of community surfacing.
The Dashboard is currently available for all users on BuzzFeed.com and BuzzFeed Network Partners. For publishers who want it on their own domain, you can get on the waiting list for the beta. And we will make a self serve version available end of Sept. We want everyone in the world to have one. If you're already in our Publisher Network, let us know if you'd like to make your dashboard public, as we have with ours.
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