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Blog Service Tumblr Raises $85 Million

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:48:38 +0000

Tumblr is a popular blogging service that has raised $85 million in a new round of funding. Tumblr is best known for simple blogging tools to post photos, videos, songs, etc. The investment in this round was led by Greylock Partners. Insight Venture Partners, the Chernin Group, Richard Branson, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Sequoia Capital also participated in this round.

Tumblr founder David Karp said that this extra round of funding “allows us to continue to scale our business and give real focus to the further development of Tumblr.”

Traffic increased to 13 billion page views per month. There are now 30 million blogs that have been created using Tumblr. Across these 30 million blogs, 40 million posts are being generated per day. About 623 million minutes per month are being spent by people looking at Tumblr blogs.

“Tumblr has come far since we began our journey,” said Mr. Karp. “From the early users signing up to easily share all of the things they cared about, to the global community today where creators have an incredible opportunity to reach an audience of hundreds of millions, it’s been a remarkable four years.”

Tumblr and 4chan In A DDoS Attack War

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:37:57 +0000

Tumblr and 4Chan are in the middle of a DDoS attack war. Users at 4Chan and Tumblr have been attacking each other’s servers. 4Chan was down today and it is a possibility that Tumblr decided to push up their attack time to earlier. Tumblr founder David Karp said “As always, we’re aggressively suspending any accounts encouraging DoS attacks or other illegal behavior.” The conflict between the two took place when a 4chan user accused Tumblr users of stealing meme ideas from their forum boards. Check out the DDoS attack war graphics below:

[TechCrunch]

Tumblr Updates iPhone App To Support Video

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:14:53 +0000

Tumblr is growing at a rapid pace. They hit 6 million users and just hit about 1.5 billion pageviews per month (Quantcast). About a year ago, Tumblr saw about 255 million pageviews. In November of last year, it was up to 420 million pageviews.

Tumblr is now a top 50 website in the U.S. About 6.25 million Tumblr users are based in the U.S. The U.S. users are posting 4.5 million posts per day. A year ago Tumblr was creating 650,000 new posts per day.

Tumblr founder David Karp said that there is more new features coming soon. Users can choose between the English, French, Japanese, German, and Italian language for each of their themes.

Tumblr also recently updated their iPhone application to support video. You can choose to upload an existing video or record a new one to upload.

[Traffic stats via TechCrunch]

Many Traditional Media Outlets Are Creating Tumblr Accounts

Amit Chowdhry — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:44:08 +0000

Blog platform company Tumblr.com, founded by David Karp in 2007, is growing at a rapid pace. Like any other social media platform, traditional media outlets are exploring how to get on board.

Here is a list of 13 traditional media outlets that have accounts on Tumblr.
1. Newsweek (http://newsweek.tumblr.com)
2. The New York Times (http://nytimes.tumblr.com)
3. The New Yorker (http://newyorker.tumblr.com)
4. Life Magazine (http://life.tumblr.com)
5. NBC Local (http://nbclocal.tumblr.com)
6. The Travel Channel (http://travelchannel.tumblr.com)
7. The Today Show (http://today.tumblr.com)
8. Elle (http://elle.tumblr.com)
9. Nylon (http://nylonmag.tumblr.com)
10. Parenting Magazine (http://parentingmag.tumblr.com)
11. The Village Voice (http://villagevoice.tumblr.com)
12. The Atlantic (http://theatlantic.tumblr.com)
13. Rolling Stone (http://rollingstone.tumblr.com)

[BusinessInsider]

Tumblr Raises $5 Million From Spark Capital and Union Square

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:34:44 +0000

Blog platform company Tumblr has raised $5 million from Spark Capital and Union Square. Tumblr currently has 4.5 million users and hits about 1 billion page views per month. Tumblr founder David Karp is not a fan of advertising so he is trying to find ways to make money through other forms, such as virtual stickers and premium themes. Tumblr is based in New York and was founded in 2007. The company raised a total of $10 million in funding.

Tumblr Hits 20 Million Uniques And 420 Million Impressions

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:21:01 +0000

David Karp did a presentation in Spain recently and reported some of the stats around the blogging service. Tumblr has over 2 million Tumblr bloggers, 40 million new posts per month, 420 million impressions, and 20 million visitors. On average Tumblr adds about 10,000 new people every day.

Tumblr has about 10 full-time employees. The company has about $5.25 million in funding. Karp said that they have about 2 years of runway left before running out of cash. Some of Tumblr’s users include John Legend, Katy Perry, etc. Tumblr has funding from Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and Spark Capital.