Tumblr Brings Hipster Twist to Year-End Lists (Update) 3 December 2013, by Michael Liedtke

Tumblr brings hipster twist to year-end lists (Update) 3 December 2013, by Michael Liedtke

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, Ask 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 In this Thursday, July 11, 2013 photo, the Tumblr logo is under 35 years old, a demographic that has helped displayed at Nasdaq, in New York. Yahoo has paid $1.1 turn the service into a free-wheeling forum filled billion to buy the blogging site Tumblr in one of this with provocative imagery, snarky humor and year's most buzzed-about deals. Now, Tumblr is occasionally ribald commentary. flaunting its hipster credentials with a first-ever breakdown of the year's hottest trends, topics and "The people on Tumblr never cease to amaze me celebrities. The retrospective starts Tuesday, Dec. 3, with their creativity and their wit and the amount of 2013, with an exploration of 20 categories ranging from the most popular musical groups to the most interesting fun they are having online," said Danielle Strle, architecture of 2013. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) 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 is where the Internet's cool kids hang out. That's why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the Tumblr's eclectic tastes are evident in some of the blogging site in one of this year's most buzzed- categories featured in the service's year-end about deals. roundup. Entire sections will be devoted to photo bombing, fingernail art, unicorns, bacon, pretty Now, Tumblr is flaunting its hipster credentials with colors, student loans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual a first-ever breakdown of the year's hottest trends, and transgender communities. topics and celebrities. In contrast, the annual lists released by the The retrospective started Tuesday at mainstream search engines tend to be more YearinReview.tumblr.com with an exploration of 20 prosaic and predictable recitations that pore categories ranging from the most popular musical through the most popular celebrities, movies, groups to the most interesting architecture of 2013. singers, TV shows, and news stories. Boasting a plethora of images, the review will continue through December with daily posts Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine also reviewed spanning 40 more categories that will culminate on the most popular social media services in its year- end list released Monday. (Tumblr ranked sixth

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behind Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.)

Tumblr's look back delves into some of that well- worn territory, too, though its selections may send some people scurrying to a search engine to find out more. For instance, the most blogged-about actor on Tumblr during this year was Benedict Cumberbatch, an English performer who has primarily had supporting roles in U.S. films (he most recently played the villain Khan in "Star Trek Into Darkness.")

Cumberbatch doesn't appear in a separate year- end roundup to be released Tuesday by Yahoo, but "Star Trek Into Darkness" tops Yahoo's rankings of the most-searched movies on its site.

Tumblr's list also underscores its audience's devotion to the British TV series, "Doctor Who." The top actress rankings include three performers—Billie Piper, Karen Gillan and Jenna- Louise Coleman—who have appeared on "Doctor Who," a show that didn't make the cut on Yahoo's list of the most popular TV series.

In a tip to Tumblr, Yahoo is highlighting three of the blogging site's categories in its own breakdown.

Now Yahoo Inc. wants 6-year-old Tumblr to start selling more ads. One of the upcoming categories in Tumblr's retrospective will highlight the best ads that appeared on the service this year.

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