Tumblr draws 48 percent of its audience from Gen Z. Ads on the platform achieve 25 percent higher engagement rates for that group than on other social sites. The site now hosts 614.9 million blogs and more than 586 billion total posts.
Key Takeaways
- Tumblr ads have a 25% higher engagement rate than other social platforms for Gen Z
- Ad-free browsing is offered for $4.99 per month as part of Tumblr's monetization
- The Tumblr 'Important Blue Internet Checkmarks' cost $7.99 for two
- Over 12.8 million posts are tagged with 'Art' annually
- The 'Minecraft' tag remains among the top 5 most engaged gaming tags
- Tumblr's 'Year in Review' reported that 'Marvel' was the top movie fandom in 2022
- There are over 614.9 million total blogs on Tumblr as of 2024
- The platform hosts more than 586 billion total posts
- Tumblr receives approximately 188 million monthly visits globally
- Tumblr banned adult content in December 2018 leading to a 30% traffic drop initially
- The iOS app was temporarily removed from the App Store in 2018 due to content issues
- In 2022 Tumblr updated its policy to allow for 'artistic nudity'
- 48% of Tumblr's audience identifies as Gen Z (ages 13-25)
- 61% of new users signing up for Tumblr are under the age of 24
- Male users make up approximately 43.43% of the desktop audience
Gen Z engagement on Tumblr is up, with strong ad and creator revenue plus massive traffic from fandom-driven communities.
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Business & Revenue30 stats
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Tumblr ads have a 25% higher engagement rate than other social platforms for Gen Z
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Ad-free browsing is offered for $4.99per month as part of Tumblr's monetization
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The Tumblr 'Important Blue Internet Checkmarks' cost $7.99for two
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Automattic reported that Tumblr’s operating costs are roughly $30 million per year
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Tumblr Mart has sold over $1 million worth of digital goods since its launch
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The 'Tip Jar' feature allows users to send up to $100per tip to creators
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Sponsored Posts make up 90% of Tumblr's advertising revenue
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CPM (Cost Per Mille) rates for Tumblr ads are 15% lower than Instagram on average
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Brand awareness increases by an average of 12% after a campaign on Tumblr
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Tumblr's creator fund has distributed over $250k to original content creators
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Over 10,000 brands use Tumblr as part of their official social media strategy
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Pinterest leads social referrals to Tumblr at 39%
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Twitter/X accounts for 30% of social referrals to the site
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Reddit contributes 12% of the social media traffic coming to Tumblr
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YouTube referrals make up 8.5% of incoming social traffic
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Facebook social referrals account for only 5.2% of traffic
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Automattic's CEO stated Tumblr's revenue goal is to reach $100 million annually
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More than 50,000 users subscribed to ad-free browsing in the first month of launch
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Gifted subscriptions (Post+) account for 5% of all subscription transactions
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Tumblr receives about 1% of its total traffic from paid search keywords
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Over 15,000 blogs have enabled the Post+ monetization feature
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Tumblr’s 'Domino Effect' advertising study claims brands reach 3x more people via reblogs
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Direct traffic increased by 15% following the introduction of the 'Blaze' feature
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'Blaze' allows users to pay $10to boost any post to a massive audience
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Over 60% of 'Blazed' posts are original art or memes from personal blogs
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Automattic paid $3 million in cash for the acquisition (excluding employee equity)
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Tumblr’s global revenue per user remains below $1.50according to industry estimates
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In 2022 Tumblr's mobile app revenue reached $1.2 million through in-app purchases
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The site’s 'Tumblr Mart' includes items like 'Crab' and 'Skeleton' digital stickers for engagement
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Over 70% of the platform’s advertising revenue comes from US-based companies
Interpretation
Business & Revenue Interpretation
Tumblr has ingeniously monetized its uniquely engaged Gen Z audience by selling them blue checkmarks and crab stickers while quietly running on ads that are cheaper but more effective than Instagram's, proving that a niche community can be both deeply weird and seriously valuable.
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Content Trends & Communities30 stats
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Over 12.8 million posts are tagged with 'Art' annually
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The 'Minecraft' tag remains among the top 5 most engaged gaming tags
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Tumblr's 'Year in Review' reported that 'Marvel' was the top movie fandom in 2022
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Original art posts receive 3x more reblogs than text-only posts on average
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The 'Anime' community accounts for 15% of total engagement on the dashboard
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Over 200,000 unique tags are used daily across the platform
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'Critical Role' was the most popular web series community on Tumblr in 2023
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User engagement with 'Original Fiction' increased by 25% year-over-year
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The platform hosts over 100,000 active 'RP' (Roleplay) communities
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72% of posts on the platform are reblogs rather than original posts
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Photo posts make up the largest percentage of content types at 54%
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Video content engagement has grown by 150% since the introduction of Tumblr Live
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Texts posts account for approximately 25% of the total content on the site
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The 'Stranger Things' fandom generated over 50 million interactions during Season 4
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GIF usage on Tumblr is 10 times higher than on most other social platforms
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Over 80% of users follow more than 10 different fandom-specific blogs
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Music-related blogs represent 12% of the top 1000 most active blogs
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The 'Dark Academia' aesthetic peaked with a 300% search increase in 2021
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'The Bear' became the top trending TV show rookie on Tumblr in late 2022
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Horror remains the most popular literary genre discussed on the site
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Tumblr users create an average of 3,000 new tags per hour
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The 'Good Omens' fandom saw a 400% engagement spike following the Season 2 release
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Links only account for 3% of the total posts shared on Tumblr
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Audio posts (including podcasts) make up 1.5% of the total content
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'Supernatural' remains one of the top 3 most searched shows of all time on the platform
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Over 1 million users use the 'Ask' feature daily
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Quote-style posts account for 2.5% of content on the site
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User-generated 'Ship' names (fandom pairings) total over 1.2 million unique variations
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The 'Genshin Impact' tag was the most engaged game tag of 2023
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Over 50% of the platform's content is shared within 24 hours of its original posting
Interpretation
Content Trends & Communities Interpretation
The numbers paint a picture of Tumblr as a chaotic, sprawling digital bazaar where millions gather to create fan art and ship characters, obsessively tag their niche passions, reblog images into infinity, and prove that an ancient website can still feel vibrantly alive because its users never, ever stopped building their own worlds.
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Platform Growth & Scale30 stats
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There are over 614.9 million total blogs on Tumblr as of 2024
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The platform hosts more than 586 billion total posts
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Tumblr receives approximately 188 million monthly visits globally
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Approximately 6.7 million new posts are created on the platform every single day
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Tumblr is available in 18 different languages for global users
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The average visit duration on the site is roughly 8 minutes and 42 seconds
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The platform's bounce rate is estimated at 43.16%
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Users visit an average of 7.23 pages per session
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Automattic acquired Tumblr for approximately $3 million in 2019
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At its peak in 2013 Yahoo purchased Tumblr for $1.1 billion
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Tumblr currently ranks in the top 150 websites globally by traffic
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Over 48% of Tumblr’s desktop traffic comes from direct visits
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Organic search accounts for 24.5% of the total desktop traffic
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There are over 200 employees currently working specifically on the Tumblr product at Automattic
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Mobile users account for more than 70% of the total time spent on the platform
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Tumblr’s app is ranked in the top 50 social networking apps on the iOS App Store
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The platform saw a 10% increase in monthly active users following the Twitter rebranding to X
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Tumblr Post+ allows creators to charge between $1.99and $9.99 for exclusive content
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Over 500 million blogs have been created since the site's inception in 2007
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Tumblr serves over 18 billion monthly page views across its network
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Approximately 2.4 million blogs are created on the platform every month
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David Karp founded the site in February 2007 from his mother's apartment
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The site hosted its first post on February 19 2007
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Tumblr’s largest traffic source is the United States at 44.9%
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The United Kingdom accounts for 5.17% of the total desktop traffic
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Germany contributes 4.54% of the platform’s traffic
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Brazil accounts for 4.01% of the site's global traffic share
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Canada contributes approximately 3.99% of Tumblr's web traffic
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Tumblr supports over 50 different social sharing integrations
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The platform's API handles over 10 billion requests per day
Interpretation
Platform Growth & Scale Interpretation
Despite its dramatic corporate devaluation, Tumblr endures as a shockingly vast and oddly sticky digital archipelago where millions still obsessively catalog their inner lives, proving that a platform's cultural footprint can far outlive its market price.
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Safety, Tech & Policy30 stats
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Tumblr banned adult content in December 2018 leading to a 30% traffic drop initially
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The iOS app was temporarily removed from the App Store in 2018 due to content issues
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In 2022 Tumblr updated its policy to allow for 'artistic nudity'
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Tumblr uses the PhotoDNA hash technology to detect illegal content
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Over 500,000 blogs were terminated in 2018 for violating the new safety policy
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Tumblr’s engineering team migrated its infrastructure to Google Cloud in 2021
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The platform's 'Safe Mode' is turned on by default for users under 18
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Tumblr handles over 100 million tags for content filtration every day
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Approximately 2% of blogs use the 'Password Protection' feature for privacy
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The platform’s search algorithm was updated in 2023 to prioritize 'original posts' over 'reblogs'
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Tumblr employs a 24/7 global Trust and Safety team across three time zones
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Over 40,000 bots are purged from the platform on a weekly basis
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The platform's accessibility score (WCAG 2.1) improved by 30% after the 2022 redesign
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Multi-factor authentication is used by less than 15% of the total user base
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Tumblr’s 'Community Guidelines' have been updated 12 times since Automattic's takeover
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The 'Hidden Tags' feature is used by 25% of active bloggers to organize content
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Tumblr's API documentation is accessed by over 50,000 developers monthly
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85% of content reports are reviewed by a human moderator within 48 hours
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The platform blocks an average of 5 million spam attempts per day
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Automattic committed to maintaining the 'open web' philosophy for Tumblr's backend
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Tumblr announced it would integrate with ActivityPub to become part of the Fediverse
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The platform uses an AI-based 'Global Block' system to prevent harassing comments
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65% of Tumblr traffic is served over HTTPS to ensure user data security
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Tumblr’s 'Terms of Service' was simplified in 2022 to be more 'user-readable'
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The platform has a dedicated 'Transparency Report' released annually
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Over 1 million users utilize 'Filtered Tags' to block specific topics from their feed
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Tumblr’s mobile app occupies 150MB of storage space on average on devices
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The 'Ask' feature has an 'Anonymous' toggle used in 60% of total interactions
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Tumblr’s help center receives over 200,000 support tickets annually
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The site utilizes 'Memcached' to speed up dashboard loading times for users
Interpretation
Safety, Tech & Policy Interpretation
Tumblr has spent years in a frenzied, high-stakes dance, trying to patch the leaks from its own adult-content ban with one hand while frantically upgrading its plumbing and decor with the other, all in a desperate and oddly sincere bid to become a safer, shinier, yet still somehow chaotic home for its uniquely devoted users.
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User Demographics30 stats
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48% of Tumblr's audience identifies as Gen Z (ages 13-25)
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61% of new users signing up for Tumblr are under the age of 24
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Male users make up approximately 43.43% of the desktop audience
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Female users make up 56.57% of the desktop audience globally
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The 18 to 24-year-old age group is the largest demographic at 31.95%
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The 25 to 34-year-old age group represents 28.18% of users
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Users aged 35 to 44 make up 15.11% of the platform traffic
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About 9.77% of Tumblr users are between 45 and 54 years old
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Roughly 6.99% of the user base falls in the 55 to 64 age bracket
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Users aged 65 and over constitute 7.99% of the platform's audience
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Tumblr has a significant LGBTQ+ community with over 25% of users identifying as non-heterosexual
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Internal surveys show that 35% of Tumblr users identify as neurodivergent
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Over 80% of Tumblr users use the service on at least two different devices
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About 22.5 million users in the United States access Tumblr monthly
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Tumblr users are 50% more likely than the average internet user to be interested in alt-fashion
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The average household income of a Tumblr user in the US is roughly $70k
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44% of Tumblr users claim they "prefer to buy brands that support causes I care about"
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Tumblr has a nearly equal split between Android and iOS mobile app users
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30% of Tumblr's traffic comes from users in non-English speaking countries
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Around 32% of users have a college degree or higher education
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Tumblr's Gen Z user base spends 20% more time per session than Millennial users
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15% of users say they use Tumblr as their primary news source for fandom updates
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Tumblr sees an average of 4.5 million daily active users on its mobile apps
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US desktop users spend approximately 10 minutes per visit compared to the global average of 8
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Over 40% of Tumblr users follow at least one 'aesthetic' tag
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About 22% of Tumblr users are active in the 'gaming' sub-communities
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Roughly 18% of global traffic comes from Search engines via long-tail keywords
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User retention for the 13-17 age group increased by 14% in 2023
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Approximately 10% of users are based in the Asia-Pacific region
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50% of the platform's active users have more than 3 secondary blogs
Interpretation
User Demographics Interpretation
Tumblr is a vibrant, multi-device haven where a largely young, neurodivergent, and LGBTQ+ audience, armed with considerable spending power and a penchant for niche interests, gathers to curate aesthetics, dive into fandoms, and build complex secondary blog empires far from the mainstream's gaze.
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Isabelle Moreau. (2026, February 13). Tumblr Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/tumblr-statistics
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Isabelle Moreau. "Tumblr Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/tumblr-statistics.
Chicago
Isabelle Moreau. 2026. "Tumblr Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/tumblr-statistics.
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