The best way tumblr could monetize would be to create a marketplace tab. Let people sponsor posts for it that promote their commissions and bandcamps and etsy shops and whatnot. There is a real dearth of places to promote indie art these days, especially with twitter dying.
It would be a good revenue stream for tumblr, a way for creatives to get their content promoted, and would actually be a fun place to look for new music or crafts or art ect for the rest of us.
Like… I want to find cool bands and handmade gifts and new books and things like that, and if there were a little feed where I could specifically check that stuff out, I’d be down with that sort of being marketed to.
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So I was just watching Strange Aeons new vid about the tumblr Blaze Feature this morning during breakfast, and something very clever about it occurred to me: you can’t see Blazed posts if you’re using an unmodified ad-blocker(I mean: presumably you can find the Blaze element and unblock that specifically, and you’d be fine but shushshushshush: Give Me a Second Alright?!?).
So: Blaze isn’t JUST a way to monetize aspects of tumblr users enjoy; it’s also a very subtle, no pressure, all-upside-way to ENCOURAGE users to stop using adblockers on tumblr; if you don’t, you can’t be randomly cursed by other users, afterall. And they released it After releasing a no-ad subscription feature, which(OK this next part’s just assumption I could be wrong about it) presumably still shows, or allows you to enable, Blazed posts; also-also making it an even-subtler way to encourage users to buy subscriptions!
It’s SO SMART, you guys :> :> :>
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I don’t think the tumblr team knows what it’s doing with this site or understands what theyve created, but tbh the users don’t either so
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ads aint the problem i would jus rather y'all have other ads besides manscaped so i wouldn't have 2 pay 2 not see bush razors on my agedre account <3
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me: minimalist (the best i can b still living with my parents)
also me: imagine how swag id b with a tumblr handbag i can puts little pins on it!
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