
Last week Tang sent a letter to the American Apparel and Footwear Association calling for a “complete makeover” of the U.S. The biggest hurdles that Shein faces ahead of the rumored IPO are mounting negative press for its use of forced labor in Xinjiang, ESG problems and import tariff violations.

“In addition, we are continuing to expand the product categories on our marketplace beyond fashion and apparel to other categories, including home appliances and other home products,” Tang revealed in the memo. Its Brazilian site boosts 6,000 active third-party sellers, which make up more than one-third of Brazil’s total GMV.

In the memo, Tang told investors that monthly gross merchandise volume has tripled to almost $100 million in Brazil. It is expanding with a similar approach in Germany, Spain France and Italy. In May, the retailer began setting up marketplaces selling goods from local vendors alongside Shein products in the U.S., Brazil and Mexico. Tumblr app users spent an average of almost 118 monthly minutes on the social app, ranking behind Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit.Eyeing a potential IPO, Shein has been working to reposition itself as a fashion and lifestyle online platform to better compete with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Despite Tumblr being a relatively niche social network, its users used to be highly engaged until the content ban at the end of 2018 - however, as of March 2019, U.S. The website uses the followers-based system made famous by Twitter, where interested users can follow other users' blogs, whether they are friends, strangers or even celebrities.ĭue to its fast-pace communication style, multiple mediums and heavy use of sometimes specific imagery, pop-culture references and slang, Tumbler is unsurprisingly most popular among young Millennials. Another function permits communication between different accounts, although users can also chose to keep their content private. The social media function allows users to “like” and/or reblog a post. The platform supports several different types of posts, such as text posts, whether plain or accompanied by images, hyperlinks or videos, but also photo posts, quote posts, link post, chat posts, audio posts and video posts, whether uploaded from a device or imported from websites such as Vimeo or YouTube.
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Tumblr’s blog-like function allows account-holders to use the platform in order to create diaries of their daily lives, to post different types of information that inspires them, as well as to liveblog about events as they happen or about TV shows as they are aired. dollars, a far cry from the billion-dollar acquisition in 2013. In August 2019, Automattic (parent company of blogging platform WordPress) purchased Tumblr for less than 3 million U.S.

This decision has been Tumblr's undoing, as visitor numbers and community engagement dropped amongst public backlash. As of the same period, the website had almost 376 million unique visitors worldwide - a stark decline since December 2018, when the company decided to ban adult content on its platform. As of July 2019, the platform had surpassed 472 million registered accounts. in June 2013 for the sum of 1.1 billion U.S.

Due to the company’s almost immediate success and popularity, it was acquired by technology giant Yahoo! Inc. Tumblr is a New York-based internet platform, part microblog, part social network, which was created by web developers David Karp and Marco Arment and launched in 2007.
