Comments on: Why Tumblr and BuzzFeed are on a collision course in 2013

By: kempsnews

kempsnews — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:01:00 +0000

I don’t know if this is a realistic comparison. One site is a content creator/news aggregator while the other is a platform.

Am I missing something here? There may be some perspective missing on the part of the author. Maybe it’s the link baity title that’s off base while the article raises some salient points.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:14:39 +0000

What a great suggestion (re: Tumblr and companies intermingling with GREAT content). So, that means that the 99.99% of ads which are COMPLETE CRAP can be replaced with actual design (the way advertising was SUPPOSED to be). Yes, the all-caps are annoying but the emphasis is clear. If you want to advertise your crap you better have a design team to do it (I HATE ads).

By: stevenkane

stevenkane — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:49:36 +0000

Hi Matthew — In my comment I specifically did say “print newspapers are fading fast” and mentioned NYTimes and Tribune by name. And in what way has TimeWarner “declined”? its bigger and more profitable than ever before. Sure, the print divisions are struggling, but so what? Huge diversified corporations sometimes have divisions and product groups that fail. And like I said in my original comment, print media are in serious decline, thanks to digital media. But my point still stands — despite the constant hype coming from the digerati… plus ca change.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:31:04 +0000

Thanks for the comment, but I can’t help but notice that you’ve left out every major newspaper chain. Not only that, but companies like Bertelsmann and TimeWarner are very different beings than they were at the height of their power — have they been destroyed or obliterated? No, but they have definitely declined, and I would argue they have fallen as well.

By: stevenkane

stevenkane — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:27:07 +0000

“The decline and fall of traditional media empires”? Jeez, will that silly bogus statement never die? What decline and fall? Of what traditional media empires? At the dawn of the internet age, say, 20 years ago, the list of big dominant media companies looks amazingly the same as today: TimeWarner. Comcast. NewsCorp. Disney. Bertelsmann. Electronic Arts. AT&T. Apple. Microsoft. The New York Times. Liberty. Verizon (then known as the Baby Bells.) A few new names have come and gone – AOL. Lycos. @Home. A few new names have come and stayed: Google. Yahoo. Amazon. Facebook (maybe.) Ok, print newspapers are fading fast. NYTimes, maybe dying. Tribune, likely. And some retailers have been eviscerated. Tower Records. Barnes and Noble. CompUSA. But the digital revolution, such as it is, has toppled no major traditional media companies.

By: gregorylent

gregorylent — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:26:16 +0000

there is room for more than one highest-common-denominator news site in the future … the lowest-common-denominator ones will eat each other.

imo.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:29:49 +0000

Thanks a lot, Meghan. I will check that out.

By: Meghan Peters

Meghan Peters — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:06:26 +0000

Very interesting points, Mathew. Tumblr is in fact hiring reporters, ie – Jessica Bennett, formerly of Newsweek. I talked to her about Tumblr’s content strategy at Mashable’s Media Summit in November: http://on.mash.to/TxSQxq Might help support your argument here as well.