The Inception Of Tumblr

Explore. Post. Share. Repeat.

One of the most remarkable microblogging websites that is always open in one of our tabs is Tumblr. You can explore, post, blog and repeat, with its amazing layout and features this website has all of us hooked to it!

Here’s how the idea of Tumblr came to life!

The inception of Tumblr took place in the year 2007 when the founder of tumblr David Karp, was on an internship programme at the same place where Tumblr is headquartered at, New york.  Karp was always interested in tumblelogs (short form blogs). He was waiting for the right time to make it happen and establish a blogging platform to introduce his own tumblelogging platform. As no one had done so after a year of waiting, Karp along with the developer Marco Arment started working on their own tumblelogging platform. After loads of research and hard work, the website was finally under progress. In the initial days of 2007, Marcel Molina who was a consultant received a message from Karp out of nowhere. Karp was living in New York and he had seen Molina’s website Projectionist and used it as inspiration to create a new site he was launching with his friend Marco Arment. It was called Tumblr. Tumblr took the best of what Projectionist and another similar website Anarchaia had to offer, Karp combined the two in one platform. Tumblr was finally launched in February 2007. In no time two weeks after the launch, the platform had gained 75,000 users. How amusing! Arment left the company in September 2010 to focus on Instapaper. This media network is powered by an army of independent creators and is the home to an audience of more than 400 million unique visitors. 

By the end of 2011, Tumblr received an enormous $ 125 millions of funding from several investors including Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Martín Varsavsky, John Borthwick (Betaworks), Fred Seibert, Krum Capital and Sequoia Capital. In early 2012, Tumblr featured its first major brand advertising campaign in conjunction with Adidas, who launched an official soccer Tumblr blog and bought placements on the user dashboard. One of the most fascinating news it that Adidas was Tumblr’s first official big advertising campaign! This launch came only two months after Tumblr announced it would be moving towards paid advertising on its site Much of the Tumblr’s features are accessed from the dashboard interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.

The company was acquired by Yahoo in 2013!

Here’s how Tumblr works!

The site has a dashboard which is the main attraction for Tumblr users. Tumblr comprises of a live feed containing the most recent posts and uploads from texts, images, videos and links. The dashboard allows Tumblr’s users to upload a large range of content from video  short blogs.

With each passing year, Tumblr has gained prominence as a micro blogging platform which has allowed millions of people around the world to share whatever they like! The Tumblr.com has already achieved rapid growth and only seems like it is going to continue.

As of now, Tumblr is valued at $ 800 million.