if i hear a melody, it's merely the way you sigh
found myself feeling sappy about these two again
if i hear a melody, it's merely the way you sigh
found myself feeling sappy about these two again
Bucky Barnes for @cuidadolasllamas
For Endgame: 2014 - Part 24 of 4 Minute Window
by @cesperanza
Holy shit I think I just cracked the code of why people think you canโt sell things on Tumblr ๐ญ
I was reading one of the Substacks I subscribe to, talking about how they promote their publication and their various sources of traffic, when I came across this paragraph:
Now I happen to also run a fairly popular Substack (about gay vampires). One whose readers are almost entirely Tumblr users. And Tumblr clicks have just never shown up in my stats, Iโm used to it. Naturally I had to comment:
Itโs not just Substackโs tracking that doesnโt work on here. NO tracking works on here. Tumblr is just one of the last platforms left that completely obscures its usersโ data!
Thatโs why thereโs this persistent myth that you canโt advertise on Tumblr. It's not that you can't sell things here, it's that you can't use the invasive methods that are standard everywhere else.
I canโt wrap my head around why Tumblrโs self-promo is all about Goncharov and dashboard crabs and not THIS! My god, their website on its last legs and this - this thing which is purely for the benefit of all their users - is certainly hurting their revenue. They arenโt patting themselves on the back for not selling us out? Not even a little?
You would think they would tell people that 'hey, we are the good guys, we aren't doing all this tracking!'... but they aren't very good at communicating. And I hear there are good staff at tumblr... maybe they all know and don't want to shout about it too loudly to make sure their CEO doesn't hear about this and change it. BTW, I hear their CEO doesn't use tumblr, so won't see this post ;)
reminder to submit your art to tumblr radar it's like a free blaze + they will usually accept it
link to submit if you're not sure how:
days without nightmares