BuzzFeed’s chief revenue officer Andy Wiedlin to open inaugural publishing conference

Tim Burrowes

September 22, 2014 1:50

BuzzFeed’s global chief revenue officer Andy Wiedlin will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural conference exploring the future of print and digital publishing staged by Mumbrella in a joint initiative with Publishers Australia.

Called Publish, the two-day event on 19-20 November will examine the major challenges and opportunities for the publishing industry across magazines, newspapers and online.

Wiedlin, who joined BuzzFeed in 2011 and is responsible for leading its revenue growth strategy both in the US and globally, will headline the Publish conference. He has built the social content site from zero revenue to profitability with more than 500 employees worldwide.
Before joining BuzzFeed, Wiedlin was the senior vice president of sales at Huffington Post where he pioneered the idea of social news, built a successful sales team, developed a market strategy, and defined social marketing products. He started in the social space

in 2008 at MySpace as vice president of sales and from 2003 to 2008 worked at Yahoo as vice president of the northwest region.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.