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Automattic

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84 articles accelerating

Automattic has appeared in 84 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2024Q4 with 12 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, WordPress.com, Tumblr.

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84
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.500
velocity change
Sources
21
publications

Coverage Timeline

2024-10-02
The Verge 2 related

Automattic demanded an 8% cut of WP Engine's monthly revenue to use the WordPress trademark in a seven-year deal proposed on September 20; WP Engine declined

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, asked rival hosting service WP Engine to hand over 8 percent of its revenue each month …

2024-08-29
TechCrunch 6 related

Automattic plans to shift Tumblr's backend to WordPress in a bid to make sharing work across the platforms easier, after acquiring Tumblr for $3M in August 2019

Tumblr is making the move to WordPress.  After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale …

2024-04-10
Bloomberg 27 related

Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging

- Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join  — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices

2024-04-09
Bloomberg 11 related

Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper co-founder Eric Migicovsky will become Automattic's head of messaging

- Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join  — Beeper briefly brought Apple's iMessage to Android devices

2024-02-28
404 Media 16 related

Docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where parent company Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools

Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge …

2023-10-24
The Verge 4 related

Automattic plans to acquire Texts, a $15 per month messaging app that works with WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessage, and more, for $50M

Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind …

2023-03-14
TechCrunch

WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires the WordPress plugin ActivityPub and hires its developer, to help blogs integrate with the Fediverse, including Mastodon

2021-07-17
The Verge 12 related

Automattic, owner of Tumblr, buys podcast app Pocket Casts from a public radio collective that includes NPR, which reportedly lost $800K on it last year

Ashley Carman / The Verge :

2021-07-16
The Verge 5 related

Automattic, owner of Tumblr, buys podcast app Pocket Casts from a public radio collective that includes NPR, which reportedly lost $800K on it last year

A new home for the popular podcast app  —  Pocket Casts has a new owner.  Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and recently purchased Tumblr …

2021-06-15
TechCrunch 6 related

Automattic acquires Day One, a popular journaling app for Apple devices with 15M+ downloads on the Mac and iOS App Store; terms of the deal were not disclosed

Automattic is expanding its lineup of online writing platforms with its acquisition of Day One, a popular journaling app for Mac and Apple mobile devices. Source: Matt Mullenweg , The WordPress.com Bl...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 75 Techmeme articles mentioning Automattic, dating back to March 2015. The biggest stories include WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200... and Automattic acquires Beeper, a source says for $125M, and absorbs its 27 employees; Beeper.... Frequently covered alongside WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, WordPress.com, Tumblr, and WP Engine. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from enterprise, regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q3enterprise -33pts; safety +17pts; developer -33pts
2024Q4enterprise +6pts; safety -17pts; developer -17pts
2025Q1enterprise -22pts; consumer -33pts; regulation +78pts

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