People love to stay at Tumblr. The average visitor spends 89 minutes there, tying it with Pinterest at #2 behind Facebook for this metric. And, the number of people taking up the Tumblr habit is increasing: from 6.9 mn unique …
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Tumblr gets bold with advertising rates
Timid Tumblr? I think not. The social media company’s first real foray into advertising (its ‘highlighted post’ product really doesn’t count) is a bold one: the starting point is $25,000, according to Business Insider. The ads will appear on Tumblr …
Tumblr president quits to ‘learn a bunch of new things’
White-hot start-up Tumblr is losing its president. John Maloney put the word out on his Tumblr-powered blog, explaining that he’s going to ‘spend more time with my family, more time supporting startups/founders, paying some things forward, and learn[ing] a bunch …
Tumblr to sell out, sell advertising [TURNING POINT]
Well, it’s about time! New York start-up Tumblr has long resisted the advertising model, and CEO David Karp has finally realized that that insanity has to stop. So far, the company has only allowed a lightweight form of promotion, in …
Tumblr explodes
There’s definitely something to celebrate in the New York start-up scene. Tumblr, which raised $85 mn in a venture capital round last year, has put up impressive numbers. In only six months, according to Business Insider, the number of posts …
Twitter acquires Posterous!
On the surface, at least, this acquisition makes a lot of sense. Twitter has nabbed social media service Posterous, showing once again that it isn’t afraid to make a deal. Posterous has lived somewhere between Twitter and blogging in the …
Social media: length of stay leaders
We learned in the late 1990s that eyeballs alone don’t make a great company, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need them! The growth of the social media space has led to an intense amount of competition, and nobody is …
Pinterest, Tumblr and Facebook: quick stat
Did you know the average Pinterest user spends 98 minutes per month on the site? It’s an impressive amount … until you get to Tumblr and Facebook. The average Tumblr user spends two and a half hours a month on …
Money grab: the top 5 venture capital recipients in New York
Okay, we all know that Silicon Valley is the place to go for venture capital money, soundly beating the #2 and #3 cities in the US market, Boston and New York. Well, that doesn’t mean the New York scene isn’t …
Five tech IPOs to watch in 2012
In the tech IPO market, there wasn’t much to celebrate in 2011. Sure, some companies popped, but many of them fell back to Earth. Imperva is among the exceptions, according to an International Business Times report, but the likes of …