Brightest Young Things

Brightest Young Things
Type of site
Online magazine
Available inEnglish
URLbrightestyoungthings.com
Launched2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Current statusInactive

Brightest Young Things, or BYT Media Inc., was an online magazine and event production and marketing agency based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Founded in 2009 by Svetlana Legetic,[1] a former Architecture Designer from Serbia, Brightest Young Things publishes original articles, interviews, guides and calendars pertaining to “food”, “style”, “music”, “art”, “theatre”, “film”, “gays”, and “weird” social events and trends in Washington, D.C., and, as of August 2012, New York City. The site regularly published up to 30 posts a day and published about 100 original articles a week, and was known for its cultural knowledge about Washington, D.C.'s trending restaurants, nightlife, and events, targeting young, 20-something “hipster” crowds in both Washington, D.C., and New York City.[2]

Brightest Young Things also put on multiple yearly events in both cities, such as the Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival in Washington, D.C., often collectively selling up to 30,000 tickets for these events.[3] Events in Washington, D.C., included Brightest Young Things collaborations with National Geographic, Virgin Mobile, and The Kennedy Center.

The website shuttered in January 2021. [4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Freed, Benjamin R. "Brightest Young Things Dismisses Plagiarist, Takes Nearly Entire Site Offline for 'Internal Audit'" DCist. N.p., 28 March 2013.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Samantha. "The Brightest Young Thing." What Weekly Magazine. What Works Studio, 4 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Brightest Young Things Says Goodbye - Washingtonian". 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2024-07-27.