It was a big year for Tumblr, which was bought for $1.1 bn by Yahoo in one of this year’s most buzzed-about deals. Now, the blogging platform is flaunting its credentials with its first-ever breakdown of the year’s hottest trends, topics and celebrities. The retrospective http://YearinReview.tumblr.com explores 20 categories ranging from the most popular musical […]
It was a big year for Tumblr, which was bought for $1.1 bn by Yahoo in one of this year’s most buzzed-about deals. Now, the blogging platform is flaunting its credentials with its first-ever breakdown of the year’s hottest trends, topics and celebrities.
The retrospective http://YearinReview.tumblr.com explores 20 categories ranging from the most popular musical groups to the most interesting architecture of 2013.
The image heavy review will continue through December with daily posts that will culminate on New Year’s Eve with the best fireworks displays featured on Tumblr during the year.
Similar end-of-the-year lists are annual rites at Yahoo, Google and other websites equipped with search engines that sort through billions of requests for information to determine which topics piqued people’s interests.
Tumblr’s musings figure to stand out because they are drawn from a younger audience that differs from the more conventional crowds that flock to general-purpose search engines.
More than half of Tumblr’s 170 million users are under 35 years old, a demographic that has helped turn the service into a free-wheeling forum filled with provocative imagery, snarky humor and occasionally ribald commentary.
“The people on Tumblr never cease to amaze me with their creativity and their wit and the amount of fun they are having online,” said Danielle Strle, Tumblr’s director of product for content and community. “There are certain things they are crazy about that I am sure that a more general Internet audience is not super nuts about.”
Tumblr’s eclectic tastes are evident in some of the categories featured in the service’s year-end roundup. Entire sections will be devoted to photo bombing, fingernail art, unicorns, bacon, pretty colors, student loans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.
In contrast, the annual lists released by the mainstream search engines tend to be more prosaic and predictable recitations that pore through the most popular celebrities, movies, singers, TV shows, and news stories.
Top viral blogs on Tumblr in 2013:
1. Reasons My Son Is Crying
2. This Charming Charlie
3. Hot-Dog Legs
4. Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things
5. The Worst Room
6. Brides Throwing Cats
7. Emojinal Art Gallery
8. Exploding Actresses
9. Yacht Cats
10. Buzzfeed Articles Without the GIFs
Top new and notable blogs on Tumblr in 2013:
1. The Official White House Tumblr
2. The Daily Bugle
3. Menswear Dog
4. Shit Rough Drafts
5. Nine Inch Nails
6. Black In History
7. Museum Gifs
8. National Geographic Found
9. Cook Your Cupboard
10. Walt Disney Animation Studios
Read more here:
http://YearinReview.tumblr.com
