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Previously Yahoo have made tree $1 billion offers, one to each of eBay, Google and Facebook. All where turned down, and for all it turned out to be the right ting to do[0].
0: http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg-...
I see a lot of people talking about Tumblr's userbase rather than the quality and potential profitibility of this userbase. As someone who has worked in brand management at P&G, i do not see any major consumer brand who's personality fits with lol cats and porn, therefore which major brand are you going to find to put ads next to that crap. Secondly lets take a look at the demographics and LSM's, tumblr is mainly mad…
Considering Tumblr is a waste dump of animated GIF's and memes it's only a matter of time before something new and hip comes along and Tumblr becomes another Geocities.
Remember Geocities? Yahoo! paid 4.6 billion for it back in 1998 and then it lagged behind and got shut down. 4.6 billion down the drain, Tumblr will be the next Geocities and the novelty of a free blogging platform all the hipsters used to use before something cooler and new came along will wear off like Myspace when Facebook took off.
Here's my perspective as a hardcore tumblr user - Tumblr is a good example of an 'uncontrolled platform'. What started as a beautiful blogging platform, has now turned into a junkyard of cat memes, 'blurr-photo-in-the-background' quotes and animated GIF thumbnails of movie snapshots and softcore pornography. Of course your feed depends on what/who you subscribe to..but due to the nature of Tumblr's platform, even the…
Has there ever been an acquisition similar to Tumblr (company that has existed for 5+ years that hasn't found a profitable business model) which has contributed positively to the acquirer's net income? Is there any chance that this cannot turn out to be a boondoggle, because that seems to be the consensus among the commenters on HN.
YouTube. Possibly Reddit? Personally I find that in the end, the question should be: can Yahoo! make better use of the $1B elsewhere? If not, the purchase is worth taking the chance.
However, Conde Nast no longer owns Reddit directly, so Reddit has no effect on Conde Nast's net income (only their shared parent company's).
Also, in Reddit's case, an argument can be made that it's a 'loss leader' - it may be operating in the red, but the value it adds to their portfolio of publications as a whole justifies the cost.
(Consider, for example, the alternative: shutting down an unprofitable Reddit, at which point all the users flock to the "next" discussion website which they don't own and control.)
Someone should build a straight up reddit-for-blogs.
Here's my perspective as a hardcore tumblr user - Tumblr is a good example of an 'uncontrolled platform'. What started as a beautiful blogging platform, has now turned into a junkyard of cat memes, 'blurr-photo-in-the-background' quotes and animated GIF thumbnails of movie snapshots and softcore pornography. Of course your feed depends on what/who you subscribe to..but due to the nature of Tumblr's platform, even the…
Actually, Instagram turned out to be a fantastic deal. Many thought it was over-valued at the time but Instagram has passed 100 million active users early this year and users spend more time on Instagram than they do on Twitter (or practically any other app than Facebook or email). In retrospect, I think $1 Billion was a steal.
Has there ever been an acquisition similar to Tumblr (company that has existed for 5+ years that hasn't found a profitable business model) which has contributed positively to the acquirer's net income? Is there any chance that this cannot turn out to be a boondoggle, because that seems to be the consensus among the commenters on HN.
YouTube. Possibly Reddit? Personally I find that in the end, the question should be: can Yahoo! make better use of the $1B elsewhere? If not, the purchase is worth taking the chance.
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thanks for the information. I never knew wordpress emails support adding tags like tumblr up to now. It was really helpful. The reason I switched from wordpress to tumblr is wordpress started displaying ads on my blog as they do with some blogs at some times. But if yahoo buy tumblr should consider switching to wordpress or blogger or some self hosting platform
There is so much angst from the teenage users using Tumblr that are panicking about the buyout and making similar threats. I don't expect to see that mentality without sound reasoning on HN.