Tumblr has lost popularity since its original launch, partly due to its more recent ban on adult material, but Automattic may breathe new life into this free blogging site.
Examples of Blog Posts Created on Tumblr
Here’s a fun one from NPR:
Example of a Blog Post on Tumblr (screenshot)
And here’s another example of creative Tumblr content:
Tumblr Free Blog Site Example of Post Format
A Look Inside Tumblr
Tumblr allows you to include things like gifs, audio, and quotes.
How to Use Tumblr as a Free Blogging Platform
It functions as a social media platform as well, but it’s very playful in nature.
Here’s what it looks like when you first log in to your account.
Tumblr Content Editor Screenshot
You can also add videos, images, and tags.
Pros of Tumblr as a Free Blogging Site
Fun, Creative and Interesting Community
If you want to produce fun and interesting content without b2b email lists poland weighed down by website construction, Tumblr is a vibrant place to express your creativity—and one of the most widely used free blogging sites in the world.
Free to Use
Like Medium, you don’t have to pay to post on Tumblr. You’re free to do what you want on the platform without extra fees—it’s a truly 100% free blogging site.
Ability to Monetize
Surprisingly, Tumblr offers a variety of ways to monetize your blog, including ads and affiliate links.
Cons of Tumblr as a Free Blogging Site
You Don’t Own your Site or Your Content
When you use Tumblr, you have no control over changes made to the platform, which is one of the biggest drawbacks of using this as a free blog site. And while you own the “subscriber content” you create, Tumblr also has certain rights to it. Their privacy policy explains,
“When you provide Subscriber Content to Tumblr through the Services, you grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to conform it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Services are available), and create derivative works of, such Subscriber Content.”