Yahoo Board Agrees to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion - GoFuckYourself.com

CAHEK · 05-19-2013, 12:30 PM

What an waste of investors money....

Reminds me when Google tried to buy Groupon for $6 Billion and they rejected offer and now it worth half less now.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100748972

Markul · 05-19-2013, 12:32 PM

wow that's pretty crazy

crockett · 05-19-2013, 12:48 PM

Tumblr will never be the next facebook.. I bet they never even make a billion back from it.. It's already been around a long time and has never gained critical mass.

2013 · 05-19-2013, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Tumblr will never be the next facebook.. I bet they never even make a billion back from it.. It's already been around a long time and has never gained critical mass.

true that.

faxxaff · 05-19-2013, 12:56 PM

Pretty cheap. It's worth much more than that.

Babaganoosh · 05-19-2013, 12:57 PM

Where is yahoo going to get a billion dollars?

Klen · 05-19-2013, 12:59 PM

Wait,doesn't tumblr owner first need to agree with offer ?

twinvisible · 05-19-2013, 01:27 PM

I hope they don't ban my porn stuff on there after buying it.

grzepa · 05-19-2013, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by twinvisible

I hope they don't ban my porn stuff on there after buying it.

I doubt it as tumblr is mostly porn stuff

TrashyGirl · 05-19-2013, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by twinvisible

I hope they don't ban my porn stuff on there after buying it.

I read both of the boards of directors agreed to it in another article. But yeah, banning porn and adult is a concern to anyone in adult using Tumblrs to drive traffic, promote, etc. Remember when Yahoo went on a purge of adult Yahoo Groups? I doubt the Yahoo BoD or the new CEO want the Yahoo brand associated with porno.

Tumblr hasn't generated huge profits since its inception, despite its vast popularity. I would foresee ads coming to Tumblr since that's Yahoo modus operandi ads ads ads ad nauseum. And that might alienate users since one of the reasons users flocked to Tumblr was its social platform sans ads & sans constricting rules on adult content.

Fat Panda · 05-19-2013, 01:50 PM

tumblr is 70% porn...it will all be deleted and the site worthless

Kolargol · 05-19-2013, 01:58 PM

now google will remove tumblr from serps

Matt 26z · 05-19-2013, 02:07 PM

This is Yahoo's purchase of Geocities all over again. Tumblr is about to be ruined.

xNetworx · 05-19-2013, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CAHEK

Reminds me when Google tried to buy Groupon for $6 Billion and they rejected offer and now it worth half less now.

I've read multiple sources that say it is only worth around $100 Million now. Epic, Epic Fail by PooPon

Dankasaur · 05-19-2013, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Tumblr will never be the next facebook.. I bet they never even make a billion back from it.. It's already been around a long time and has never gained critical mass.

Sure it's not Facebook popular, but Tumblr is WILDLY popular to teens.

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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

Where is yahoo going to get a billion dollars?

They have $4 billion spending money.

CamTraffic · 05-19-2013, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by CamBoss

I've read multiple sources that say it is only worth around $100 Million now. Epic, Epic Fail by PooPon

Where At? GotA Link?

bloggerz · 05-19-2013, 04:36 PM

And i thought Yahoo was broke...

HomerSimpson · 05-19-2013, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Tumblr will never be the next facebook.. I bet they never even make a billion back from it.. It's already been around a long time and has never gained critical mass.

tumblr is alexa #32 site so it has the critical mass for sure...
problem is - how to make profit out of it and how to monetize it?

Creatine · 05-19-2013, 06:32 PM

This is terrible. Honestly.

Ever since twan shut down is blog networks I've been using tumblr to build a huge porn network of websites.

Most likely Yahoo will want to ban porn and place their shitty Yahoo ads on it.

xNetworx · 05-19-2013, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CamTraffic

Where At? GotA Link?

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/1...ash-posistion/

This article says they are worth $540 million but Ive read that they would be lucky to get 100-200 million if they tried to sell

Gozarian · 05-19-2013, 08:08 PM

That money would be better spent buying cam sites

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2013 · 05-19-2013, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Gozarian

That money would be better spent buying cam sites

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i like cams

epitome · 05-19-2013, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by crockett

Tumblr will never be the next facebook.. I bet they never even make a billion back from it.. It's already been around a long time and has never gained critical mass.

32nd largest website in the world, 19th in the US.

Have only the 18 biggest sites on the internet gained critical mass?

Edit: Whoops, I see somebody already addressed that.

Anyway, porn is synonymous with Tumblr. Maybe they'll just enforce that NSFW blogs actually be labelled NSFW (as the feature has already long existed) and they won't put mainstream (or maybe any) ads on them. Marketers might be quickly cleared out, but it is not uncommon for the average Tumblr user to reblog an inspirational quote, a cityscape, another quote, more SFW pictures and then random porn. How would they address that?

MainstreamGuy · 05-19-2013, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by twinvisible

I hope they don't ban my porn stuff on there after buying it.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I read the news yesterday.

zipppy · 05-20-2013, 08:54 AM

I don't think stuffing a few ads in a tumblr feed will be difficult at all. It's probably by far the easiest social network to do it with since so many of the posts on the dashboard are a) graphics and b) random.

Tofu · 05-20-2013, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Kolargol

now google will remove tumblr from serps

They already do.

Dankasaur · 05-20-2013, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Creatine

This is terrible. Honestly.

Ever since twan shut down is blog networks I've been using tumblr to build a huge porn network of websites.

Most likely Yahoo will want to ban porn and place their shitty Yahoo ads on it.

They're gonna do with Tumblr what Conde Nast did with Reddit. They own it, but it's totally independent from the parent company.

seeandsee · 05-20-2013, 09:40 AM

they will market on ads, pro service and other stuff!

TrashyGirl · 05-22-2013, 10:47 PM

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/20/ya...tizing-tumblr/

?We want to let Tumblr be Tumblr," she said.

despite the above, ads are coming to Tumblr

Mayer highlighted that she would bring the company?s newly launched streaming ads product to the site, which are now featured on both Yahoo?s homepage and its newsfeed.

wonder if porno will be purged

Dankasaur · 05-23-2013, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by TrashyGirl

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/20/ya...tizing-tumblr/

?We want to let Tumblr be Tumblr," she said.

despite the above, ads are coming to Tumblr

Mayer highlighted that she would bring the company?s newly launched streaming ads product to the site, which are now featured on both Yahoo?s homepage and its newsfeed.

wonder if porno will be purged

No it will not.

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