It now looks pretty certain that Yahoo has pulled off a deal to buy Tumblr for 1.1B. The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr’s own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there’s healthy import and export traffic both ways. (Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000.)
News like this, whether from a friend or a competitor, is always bittersweet: I’m curious to see what the creative folks behind Tumblr do with their new resources, both personal and corporate, but I’m more interested to know what they would have done over the next 5-10 years as an independent company. I think we’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain, and while Yahoo’s all-cash deal by some metrics, like revenue, is very generous, I think it’s a tenth of the value that will be created in these platforms over the coming years.
Update: Some people are reading too much into the import numbers — I don’t think there will be an exodus from Tumblr. For more color read the comments on this post.
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what is a splog?
It’s a spam-blog.
I’m hoping we get some closure on that $100m in revenue Babe Ruth call in one form or another. That to me was a bigger deal than the $1b+ purchase price if Tumblr could pull it off without alienating their base.
So there is an order of magnitude difference in price and value for the web. That is likely a good approximation to keep in mind around internet publishing platforms…
The idea of remaining independent appeals emotionally but you could see it as a healthy thing that, when a service matures to a certain point, a larger company with, presumably, a better monetization infrastructure steps in and pays the founders a meaningful amount that they will, presumably, direct towards innovative new ideas.
People and companies have different stages in their lives, is it not good that proven, successful innovators get to move on to new adventures?
Sure, there can be a backlash from users, but startup guys truly who get it are an extremely limited resource, would the Internet be better today if Evan Williams was still running Blogger as an independent company?
I don’t wish to give any of the WordPress faithful an aneurysm but it wouldn’t necessarily be the end of the world if Automattic got bought out in a similar mega-deal, it might turn out to be rocket fuel that has a substantial and unexpected impact on the Internet as a whole.
I would say that everyone has to keep an open mind to these things, because it’s inevitable that the value you create is wanted by a larger organization with more resources. We have to remember that Yahoo! itself was probably the size of Tumblr or WordPress.com. Now, it’s a massive, multi-billion dollar revenue generator and it’s going to going on a buying spree. They all do, whether it’s Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft… in the end, a portion of the user base will be angry. But, they’re not the ones that spent many years developing the product. They may use it and want it to stay the way it is, but sometimes in life, things outgrow where they once were and the world changes. So, I agree.
I was around when Yahoo swallowed Geocities and E-groups. They would do good to leave Tumblr operate as a separate division.
Any chance you can share the hourly export traffic as well?
Sure — last week there were about 67 WP.com exports generated an hour.
I sure hope you’re right that 10X value will be created. Of course the intangible value that comes from new voices enabled by self-publishing technology is greater than any monetary sum. Thanks to WP and Tumblr for generating so much of that value. Let’s hope Yahoo doesn’t screw it up.
Though you may be correct about that 1/10 of revenue prediction, it’s probably a lot better feeling to have 1.1 Bn in your Bank Account than 11.1 Bn in a may-come-in-the-future-if-all-goes-right-and-the-stars-align bank account.
A bird in the hand, and all that.
Matt,
I don’t know enough about how these crazy internet valuations work but how do you make sense of the massive $1.1 billion price tag when Tumblr reportedly generated only $13 million in revenue in 2012?
Yahoo! might be the most incredible business on the planet at monetizing traffic but I can’t see how you could get from $13 million in revenue to say $390 million (30x) in revenue in the next 3-5 years to make the acquisition begin to make sense.
Do you think that sort of growth would be achievable or does a smaller/larger revenue figure in 3-5 years time make more sense to you?
Al.
In an advertising business a lot of it comes down to attention: how much and where advertisers spend to get your attention usually lags 3-5 years from where people are actually spending their time, and when that gap closes it can be very impressive. Of course it doesn’t happen for free, there are lots of organizational changes needed to execute on that opportunity, and probably as many people screw it up as get it right.
I believe there is also an even-larger-than-advertising opportunity around subscriptions and products. The big shift from older forms of media is that people aren’t just passively consuming as they might in front of a TV, they’re creating. It’s a hobby and a passion, not a vice. In that context I think subscriptions are more aligned with users than advertising, and that’s the direction Automattic is pointed in.
When Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.57B (!!), it had a market cap of $2.3B – and right after “GeoCities posted a net loss of $8.4 million” for the quarter. Anything for eyeballs… http://money.cnn.com/1999/01/28/technology/yahoo_a/
Automattic is pointed in the direction of subscriptions? I guess you mean in the sense of a platform and the freemium model — paying for higher-end use and service. Or am I missing your point, and you mean in the sense of paying for content (as with magazine or cable subscription)? Cuz if it’s the latter, that’s news. Curious your thoughts. Thanks.
It’s the former.
I think the issue for Yahoo is much bigger than how much of a return they are going to get on their Tumblr investment. If Yahoo stock has a big increase because of this purchase, that alone will justify what they paid. This purchase also increases their overall credibility, their attractiveness to getting great employees, and will most certainly bring more internet users into the other Yahoo services.
Google bought Youtube for $1.6B in 2006. Youtube will do $4B in revenue in 2013. projections are for $20B by 2020.
A good deal? I’d say yes. That’s what Yahoo is hoping for.
http://allthingsd.com/20130515/morgan-stanley-thinks-youtube-will-be-a-20-billion-business/
Looks like my other comment didnt get posted…lol
My point is there is no way anyone can predict the future.
David Karp in 5 years from now could easily say that he wishes he didn’t sell or that he is happy that he took the money and run to the Bank.
Hint hint, Real estate 5 years go….yeah the prices kept going up….
No one can predict the future.
When it comes to the “ultimate value of web publishing platforms” I feel WP has the lead.
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Bittersweet indeed. Will Tumblr go the same way as other services now that Big Corporate has taken over, or will those behind Tumblr be allowed to continue what has been – especially in the last couple of months – a series of good upgrades and enhancements?
There appear to be two feelings on this: (1). Yahoo! will kill the service with adverts and user-unfriendly changes and (2) David Karp should ‘upgrade’ his girlfriend (Daily Mail comments).
Let’s hope that it goes the path of improvements.
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My reply on Techcrunch: FWIW, I don’t think there will be any sort of exodus from Tumblr. For most folks habits overcome internet-outrage. Even if a million people left, that’s just about a week’s worth of signups.
Matt, you say it very well with this comment. While I don’t think Tumblr was worth anywhere close to 1 Billion dollars (cue Austin Powers scene)… I also think most people don’t even know this is happening at all yet, and of the ones who do know it’s happening, I’m guessing most will just go on blogging.
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I am not surprised to see Yahoo acquiring Tumblr. I think that the large, older companies like Yahoo and AOL that are the public face of the web, realize that if they don’t have a large social presence they risk being doomed into irrelevance. Looking at some of AOL’s acquisitions of the last three years, which include, TechCrunch, About.Me, The Huffington Post, and gdgt, shows that they are positioning themselves into the Social/News area.
It will be interesting to see into what area Yahoo will choose to position itself. I think Tumblr is the just the beginning of a lot of acquisitions by Yahoo. I would not be surprised to see Yahoo spending a lot more money over the next few years on a variety of social sites.
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Though I understand it’s just another path in a business paradigm to get sold or be absorbed, emotionally, for a end user, it’s hard to digest. You tend to build a bond with a tool that you use to write everyday – be it a hardbound diary or a blog. Tumblr, like wordpress, was built on the ideals of providing users a friendly, free and independent platform for publishing. When I say independent, I mean moulding the product according to how the users want it, and not how the company wants it. I hope (against all hope), with Tumblr, that doesn’t change.
I still remember when WP2.5 (I think) was out, there was a survey rolled out to choose the best navigation style/icons that the users think WP should adopt. What this creates in the minds of the users is the feeling of ownership and no wonder WP has such wide support from millions in the blogging community.
That said, I wonder, if Tumblr was in fact, open source, could this buyout be possible?
Great comment. I’m sure Tumblr uses a ton of OS software, and even if the entire platform was open sourced Yahoo could still buy the company. The brand, users, domain, and people are where the value is, not a proprietary license to some # of lines of code.
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Tumblr was clean out of cash, and would either have had to grossly compromise their no-ads (or at least minimal ads) policy or looked for other investors. I think it’s in Yahoo’s interest that they keep their integrity and “cool,” but servers don’t run themselves.
What’s interesting about this is that Instagram was acquired with 13 employees for $1Bn. Tumblr was acquired with 170+ employees for $1.1Bn. There’s far more cost in Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr than Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram.
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So much of tumblr is just porn garbage. They obviously have a valuable site, but I have to wonder how much of that would die if they were a little more strict and had more control over their platform.
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So at $3.50 per user valuation it costs Yahoo 250K per hour.
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Jag skrev tidigare idag om att Yahoo kommer att köpa upp Tumblr för 1,1 miljarder dollar, motsvarande cirka 7,4 miljarder kronor. Tumblr har funnits i ungefär sex år men bloggtjänsten har knappast genererat några omfattande inkomster, eftersom användar…
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I’ve heard over the years that value in owning technology platforms, the fact is that there is no value in any platform. The real value is in the people that build, solve and fix problems. If Yahoo can keep the core team then it may transition into a Yahoo product.
I think this is a good deal for Yahoo! I’ve been rooting for Yahoo lately and I think Marissa Mayer doing good things. I want Yahoo to be bigger competition for Google.
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Hey Matt – does this mean that WordPress is worth $100bn? 🙂
WP is free and priceless at the same time. 🙂
There is Tumblr. Then there is the hoss of blogging, WordPress.com! Any questions? 😉
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Let us look forward to a better Tumblr experience.
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[…] Tumblr for $1.1 billion, it’s inevitable we’ll see some user backlash. Rival blog host WordPress claims that backlash has already begun: founder Matt Mullenweg says that imports from Tumblr to WordPress rose from the typical rate of […]
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[…] usuarios ya ven una razón para darse a la fuga: el fundador de WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, dijo en una publicación en su blog la noche del domingo que el número de usuarios de Tumblr que exportaron su contenido a WordPress […]
[…] Matt Mullenweg on Yahoo-Tumblr […]
[…] layanan blog WordPress, Matt Mullenweg beberapa waktu lalu sempat menulis dalam postingnya serta tulisan melalui akun blog WordPress miliknya. Ia mengungkapkan fakta bahwa telah terjadi […]
[…] what can only be called an exodus, WordPress’ co-founder Matt Mullenweg posted on his blog Sunday night that over 72,000 new blog posts were imported within a single hour. This is a massive […]
[…] a lot of negative comments coming in from Tumblr users in lead-up to the deal, and some competitors claiming that they’re witnessing a kind of exodus from Tumblr as a result, Karp has also weighed […]
[…] pe mulți. Drept dovadă, Matt Mullenweg, fondatorul și dezvoltatorul platformei WordPress a anunțat că numărul importurilor de bloguri din Tumblr în WordPress a crescut de la 400 – 600 pe […]
[…] what can only be called an exodus, WordPress’ co-founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg posted on his blog Sunday night that over 72,000 new blog posts were imported within a single hour. This is a massive […]
[…] Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress on Tumblr […]
[…] mix of proprietary and open source, independent versus funded yet, or even if there is one, but the evolution is happening. Will Tumblr let its users continue to be themselves? We’ll […]
[…] Matt Mullenweg, Gründer von WordPress über Tumblr […]
[…] de Tumblr a WordPress tras la compra de Yahoo. El consejero delegado de WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, ha asegurado que tras conocerse ayer que el consejo de Yahoo había aceptado la compra de Tumblr, más de 72.000 […]
[…] Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr might be something Mullenweg might need to worry about. He isn’t. In a post, he wrote that while typically WordPress imports 400 to 600 posts an hour from Tumblr, on May 19, […]
[…] Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr might be something Mullenweg might need to worry about. He isn’t. In a post, he wrote that while typically WordPress imports 400 to 600 posts an hour from Tumblr, on May 19, […]
[…] acquisition of Tumblr might be something Mullenweg might need to worry about. He isn’t. In a post, he wrote that while typically WordPress imports 400 to 600 posts an hour from Tumblr, on May 19, […]
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[…] di post da Tumblr a WordPress sono arrivate a 72mila in un’ora (mentre di solito, scrive il ceo sul suo blog, raggiungono al massimo i 600 post all’ora). Un buon risultato, che però impatterà poco sui […]
[…] Tumblr-Konkurrent Posterous eingestellt, nachdem er 2012 von Twitter übernommen worden war. Der Blogeintrag von WordPress-CEO Matt Mullenweg bestätigt diese Ängste. Am Sonntag nach Bekanntwerden des Kaufs seien zeitweise pro Stunde mehr […]
[…] des Deals bereits mehrere Zehntausend Umzüge von Tumblr-Blogs zu WordPress. Dessen Chef Matt Mullenweg glaubt jedoch nicht daran, dass dieser Trend anhält und Tumblr dadurch ohne User […]
[…] exactly, what users did was import their content from Tumblr into WordPress. A post from Matt Mullenweb, the CEO of WordPress states that in the last weekend the number of imports was 72,000 in a single […]
[…] le importazioni di post da Tumblr a WordPress sono arrivate a 72mila in un’ora (mentre di solito, scrive il ceo sul suo blog, raggiungono al massimo i 600 post all’ora). Un buon risultato, che però impatterà poco sui […]
[…] In a few years Automattic should scale well beyond Tumblr’s valuation with ease. The question isn’t one of a buyout as Matt has shared his desire to stay independent on many platforms and in some ways he’s forecasted the under-valuation of Tumblr: […]
[…] the day of the Tumblr acquisition’s leak, Matt Mullenweg posted about the acquisition stating that imports from Tumblr to WordPress spiked: normally they import 400-600 posts an hour […]
[…] Yahoo and Tumblr’s public confidence, the Huffington Post reported, “WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg wrote on Sunday that his publishing platform is seeing a huge spike in import traffic from […]
[…] this week, there were rumors of a mass exodus from Tumblr. Much of the uproar was due to a post by WordPress’ co-founder Matt Mullenweg who noted a “healthy” spike in the number of blog posts getting imported into […]
[…] Non-interference is vital to Yahoo’s potential with Tumblr, state the experts. Yahoo’s superb technical expertise will surely benefit Tumblr; however, the “new kid on the block” needs to be defensive of its creative barriers. The recent Facebook-Instagram deal is a pivotal exemplar of an independently governed attained company. It is yet to be established whether the deal has been profitable for Facebook; nonetheless, the integration has been advantageous for shareholders and users. Thus far, Instagram has not garnered a cent for its new owner. Though acting independently and developing updates at an acceptable rate, it is difficult to determine whether Instagram may have made the same accomplishment alone without any inference from Facebook! Yahoo must, therefore, endeavour to achieve the feat of equity between autonomy and transparent regulations amid the parent company and Tumblr. […]
[…] this week, there were rumors of a mass exodus from Tumblr. Much of the uproar was due to a post by WordPress’ co-founder Matt Mullenweg who noted a “healthy” spike in the number of blog posts getting imported into […]