Press
Over the past few years, Flavorpill has garnered press from outlets ranging from The New York Times and The Economist to psfk and WIRED. We've made some of our favorite articles available here for review.
If you're a journalist with an interest in Flavorpill's publications or one of our events, please contact our press team.
The Economist
-July 26, 2007
"Deciding what to do in any big city can be difficult, making it tempting to stay in and catch up on e-mail instead. But that might in fact be the answer."
The New York Times Magazine
-September 10, 2006
"How did two veterans of the first Internet boom become the Web's arbiters of urban hipness?"
Business Week
-September 4, 2006
"Flavorpill is further proof that you can build a Web media company from an email."
New York Magazine
-March 2, 2008
Flavorpill rated best museum party in "Best Of New York" issue
The Daily News
-January 29, 2008
"...Kanye West made a surprise appearance at Flavorpill.com's One Step Beyond party Friday night...said one reveler: 'It was the hotness.'"
The Village Voice
-January 29, 2008
"One Step Beyond could be the best (and only?) reason to hoof it to the Upper West Side."
New York Times
-January 28, 2008
"The audience at Flavorpill’s One Step Beyond party at the American Museum of Natural History in New York got a huge surprise on Friday night."
Chicago Magazine
-January, 2008
"Flavorpill.com suggests local happenings that hip, arty types would like in a well-culled calendar of art, film, music, theatre and book events...."
Mashable.com
-December 10, 2007
"In partnership with mobile local service BuzzD and support from Nokia Nseries, Flavorpill Mobile is the latest piece of its growing network. With the mobile tool, users will get real-time reviews and ratings as well as events listings."
NME
-August 1, 2007
"Bondo De Role are gearing up for a very special show in New York in September."
The Economist
-July, 26 2007
"Deciding what to do in any big city can be difficult, making it tempting to stay in and catch up on e-mail instead. But that might in fact be the answer."
psfk
-June 13, 2007
"the unique venue provides a superb platform for Flavorpill to flaunt their cool connections and rope in even more subscribers"
The Tripwire
-November 7, 2006
"Current TV and Flavorpill Sitting in a Tree..."
CNET News
-October 11, 2006
"The archetypal New York geek actually gets out and hits the city."
The New Zealand Herald
-September 15, 2006
"The curator of cool is discussing the importance of "eyeballing" fashion."
The New York Times Magazine
-September 10, 2006
"How did two veterans of the first Internet boom become the Web's arbiters of urban hipness?"
Business Week
-September 4, 2006
"Flavorpill is further proof that you can build a Web media company from an email."
CNET MEDIA BLOG
-July 13, 2006
"Partytime: A blockbuster book about the demise of the blockbuster."
Media Bistro.com "Fishbowl"
-July 13, 2006
"It seemed that anyone even-remotely associated with New York's new media resurgence was in Tribeca last night at the Flavorpill-hosted New York debut of Wired editor Chris Anderson's Long Tail."
Brutus
-May, 2006
"What's happening now."
Creativity
-April, 2006
"A-B buys more Super Bowl ads than anyone else, but they still see the value in nontraditionl partnerships."
Financial Times
-April 13, 2006
"Cheap computing tools and hardware are giving start-ups the freedom to turn down venture capitalists."
Creativity
-March 2006
"Eight talents, hand picked by Flavorpill, will create signature ads for the Budweiser Select Brand, decidedly geared toward the hip and creative set."
psfk
-March 20, 2006
"What's awesome about this growth is that it's being led by the people, not by mainstream media or because the major portals are pushing certain services and features."
The New York Times
-March 12, 2006
"Flavorpill has run ads for American Express, Audi and Anheuser Busch. The company now publishes nine e-mail letters with over 300,000 subscribers."
BPM Magazine
-February 2006
"Flavorpill is the big boy of indie culture calendars for NYC (and half a dozen other cities)."
Village Voice (The Best of NYC, 2005)
-October 2005
"When boredom strikes, FLAVORPILL nearly hits Google levels of far-reachingness."
Financial Times
-October 22, 2005
"These bloggers and webzine-ites, the self-taught and style-sassy, have come in from the cold and may exert more influence over what you wear than you think."
Time.com
-July 2005
"Music, art, fashion and other carefully selected event highlights in five cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Chicago. Type in your email address to get the weekly newsletter for the urban mecca of your choice, and you'll always know just what to do with your free time."
Wall Street Journal, Online Edition
-April 29, 2005
"Though Flavorpill had no advertising when it started as a part-time hobby in 2000 by co-founders Mark Mangan and Sascha Lewis, it eventually attracted advertisers including Nike Inc, Volkswagen AG's Audi, Diesel and Sony Corp."
The New York Times Magazine
-April 10, 2005
"Over the past five years, the owners of Flavorpill have turned this (filtered content) line of thought into something that is a kind of mini-media company if not a quite an empire."
am New York
-March 4, 2005
"Everyone has that friend who knows all the coolest stuff going on that night."
Surface
-March 2005
"What separates Flavorpill from its myriad of competitors is its military-grade radar for cool."
The Times, London
-February 20, 2005
"If you live in London and have, or at least aspire to have, a social life, you simply must pop a weekly Flavourpill."
Wired
-December 2004
"This free email magazine is guaranteed to make you an instant member of the cultural cognoscenti... It's like an HTML happy meal for your inbox."
am New York
-October 26, 2004
"Since its debut in 2000, Flavorpill has gained a reputation for uncovering the city's truly precious cultural gemstones."
USAToday.com
-July 23, 2004
"Consider subscribing to this free e-mail newsletter, put out by the same folks who bring you the endlessly entertaining Boldtype book mailing we told you about a few months ago. The listings are hand-picked by clever folk, and the site includes nifty extras such as a reader-commentary area."
