Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr • Hacker News Board

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by no1youknowz » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

If I were Pornhub, I'd really low-ball them. After all Verizon wrote down the purchase by 30%? [0] and I'm sure they just want rid by now. So between 10% - 50% is a good offer.

On Pornhubs side, it's essentially a steal. They could very well foster a good atmosphere when it comes to porn and then offer through their mindgeek advertising platform access to Tumblr for their marketing affiliates.

These marketing affiliates spend ALOT of money on ads and it's very profitable if you know what you are doing.

If they started to get their own studios or their affiliates in creating films (actresses) in the recording space to use Tumblr to blog and not use twitter. Again, this would drive engagement by quite a margin.

There is so many things Pornhub could do here to make hundreds of millions off the back of Tumblr and they have the management to do it.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-looking-sell-tumblr-...

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by wesammikhail » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

Off topic: I am genuinely curious, why doesn´t Pornhub create a Youtube competitor? it is probably the best positioned company on earth to do so. Any info as to why they haven´t done it or why it would be bad idea for them to do so?

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by irrational » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #7

irrational wrote: post #5

Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.

For obvious reasons, Tumblr and its critical mass already exists. How often do clones succeed?

I assume Pornhub's user base is higher than Tumblr's ever was. I would think they could use Pornhub to drive users to the new platform.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by stcredzero » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

Simulacra wrote: post #15

partiallypro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might get downvoted for this, but...I can't believe you didn't think of the name "Cumblr"

-spits out energy drink all over my keyboard- ....Thanks for that.. LOL

Pornhub, Tumblr, and the rest of the Internet: Causing various fluid spills onto keyboards, since the late 20th century.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by nojvek » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #11

It's bizarre that it's legal for me to look at pictures of a naked person, but effectively illegal to use technology to do so, just because advertising is subject to the whims of a moralistic and prejudicial minority.

I think it’s the minors that are illegal and that’s what Verizon is afraid of.

Adult sites are perfectly legal.

Also US is a very religious country (some parts) compared to other western nations. So that’s where some of this comes from.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by jplayer01 » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

partiallypro wrote: post #12

I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.

Pornhub is probably the best party able to refocus Tumblr on mostly porn. I feel there are plenty of people who are interested in the kind of kink communities that grew organically on Tumblr, but felt Tumblr as a platform wasn't appropriate. Maybe Pornhub can give Tumblr the love and direction it needs to fill the kind of niche that Pornhub.com itself can't, and that might draw a much larger audience than before.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by kermitismyhero » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

irrational wrote: post #5

Why don't they just have their engineers create their own Tumblr clone? Tumblhub or Tumhub or Pornblr. It would probably be cheaper than buying Tumblr.

Someone (not pornhub) has already created a tumblr clone called "bdsmlr". It's actually got an extremely wide variety of content, not just BDSM.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by CM30 » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

partiallypro wrote: post #12

I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.

Honestly, those users were using the site even when porn and other such content was allowed, and clearly weren't bothered by existence on the platform overall. So if they allow it again, then so long as they don't promote these blogs to users who don't care for them, no one's gonna be bothered.

It's like Reddit; yes it allows adult content, but since you're not forced to view subreddits that allow it, no one cares.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by Dynomite54 » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

Finally I can get all my gay kinky porn back now.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Post by olivermarks » Fri, May 03, 2019, 5:53 PM UTC

pornhub is one of Mindgeek's properties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek I've never understood their business model - they seem to host endless illegally uploaded porn yet more and more porn seems to be being created. Not clear where the money is made ultimately. Mindgeek dominate the online porn world which gets huge traffic. https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review Tumblr was historically another repository of illegal uploads of other people's adult materials.