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Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding
- johnx123-up 15y agoCongrats!
- johnx123-up 15y agoWhy downvoting? (answers will help me to fix myself)
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- ent 15y agoComments that don't really add anything to the discussion, even if they are appropriate, usually get downvoted on HN.
- mathattack 15y agoThe game is still going! It's great to see that bad news on the IPO market and broader economy is not killing upstream entrepreneurs.
- vide0star 15y agoWhat percentage of Tumblr traffic is pornography?
- vide0star 15y agoIt's interesting that this question keeps getting mod'd up and then mod'd back down again. Elephant in the room? For as successful as Tumblr's growth has been, my guess that it's in large part due to the platform distributing a bazillion free porn images and videos. I would be curious to know how much of their traffic is actually porn. My sense is it could be > 80%. Fwiw, I have nothing against porn. I think it is part of what powers the internet. But I think it's disingenuous to tout the success of a site when you're giving away something for free (much like free music or videos) virtually everybody wants.
- timjahn 15y agoThis celebration of "businesses" who make no money (and show no interest in making money) has to stop. It's one thing if we call them what they are - neat little side projects. But if we're to believe these companies are businesses that make money and put food on the table, that's hogwash.
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- ma2rten 15y agoI beg to differ, the ultimate goal of a business should be to create value. Money should only serve as a yardstick for the value created.
- subpixel 15y agoThe really irresponsible thing here is that the article doesn't make an explicit point of Tumblr's lack of revenue or revenue model and ask 'wtf is the plan?'. Reminds me of ra-ra coverage celebrating the 'success' of Digg.
- timjahn 15y agoExactly.
- bonzoesc 15y agoI'm kind of in favor of rebranding "startups" that have no business like Twitter or Tumblr as "charities." "For only 30¢ per day you can make a difference in the life of a young adult who wants to reblog naked girls from other Tumblr sites and tweet about animated GIFs."
- rudiger 15y agoTumblr gets over 10 billion page views a month. It's something bigger than a "neat little side project." The criticism of Tumblr (and Twitter) that they're not "real" businesses or that they're not interested in making money ignores how young these companies are and how early in their lifetimes we're judging them.
- samof1976 15y agoCool! Congrats.
- Torn 15y agoHas Posterous lost the race against Tumblr yet?
- morsch 15y agoThere's also soup.io. Does anybody use that outside of Europe? Apparently they've got 800k monthly unique visitors vs. 13.4 million for Tumblr.
- Maro 15y agoThey have some impressive numbers: Mr. Karp said that Tumblr’s growth has exploded in the past year. It’s attracted popular musicians such as Lady Gaga and traffic leapt to 13 billion page views per month from 2 billion page views per month. Since the site was first introduced, 30 million blogs have been created using the tool. Those 30 million blogs now generate more than 40 million posts each day. A recent report from Nielsen said that the audience for the site tripled in the past year and has drawn more female teens to the site than any other social network. Although Facebook still dominates the majority of the time Americans spend on the Web, occupying more than 53 billion minutes each month, Tumblr manages to capture a reasonable share of screen time as well, with more than 623 million minutes per month. So the avg. American spends ~3hrs a month on Facebook and 2mins on Tumblr.
- rudiger 15y agoYou're dividing minutes per month by the total population of the USA (appx. 300 million) to get "avg. American," but I'm sure Facebook has more unique users than Tumblr. So the disparity in time spent on site per person probably isn't so much.
- corin_ 15y agoNot really a useful calculation to make. Obviously Facebook is a lot more popular, and if you can't see that from reading "53 billion" vs "623 million" then... What is interesting is some other statistics that show Tubmlr to be impressive, such as: - 10% more "minutes spent" by US visitors than Twitter - Tumblr generated the second most UK pageviews of any social network, after Facebook (again, obviously, a long way behind Facebook) - With 11 million unique US viewers, Tumblr has less than Twitter (23m), Wordpress (22m), MySpace (19m), LinkedIn (17m), yet has more minutes spent on it than any of those. Blogger has 50m uniques (321% more than Tumblr) and only 700m minutes (16% more than Tumblr). All this shows that while it isn't huge in how many people use it, the audience it does have is much more engaged that other sites.
- Maro 15y agoIt's useful because 3 hours and 2 minutes are figures that I can easily remember, 53B and 600M not so much.
- bond 15y agoLike the other guy said: "Show me the money!"...
- tyler_ball 15y agoAs a long-time Tumblr user I've always wondered, do they have income? There are no ads on the site, and no premium plans or pricing (other than the paid themes, but I assume that most of that goes to the theme's author) that I can see. How can it last?
- stfu 15y agoHas anyone figured out how to use tumblr in some "meaningful" way e.g. not just reposting the same old memes over and over again? I still struggle to get the point of using it.
- wanorris 15y agoThere are tumblr subcultures that are more like a sequel to LiveJournal, which makes it more meaningful (at least to those users) than just a meme delivery device. It also gets some use as sort of an improved Twitter. If you like a post you can, um, Like a post, reblog it as is, or reblog it with a comment of your own. You also get much better options for embedding media easily. Of course, if you don't have any interest in having a LiveJournal and don't want an improved Twitter (with a lower user count), there may still not be any point to you using it.
- stfu 15y agothank you wanorris. actually a helpful reply. appreciate that!