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WordPress.com

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25 articles accelerating

WordPress.com has appeared in 25 articles since 2015-11. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Automattic, WordPress, Tumblr, Mastodon.

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25
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Velocity
+200.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+2.500
velocity change
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5
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 …

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

2021-07-16
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 …

2021-02-08
Axios 4 related

Automattic's enterprise-focused WordPress VIP says it is acquiring content analytics service Parse.ly

WordPress VIP (WPVIP), the enterprise arm of WordPress.com, is acquiring Parse.ly, a content analytics platform that's used by thousands of digital publishers.

2019-08-14
Axios 6 related

WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M

It is not surprising that the news … Ana Valens / The Daily Dot : Tumblr's getting a new owner; does that mean porn is back? Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News : A Brief On Tumblr's Funding History...

2019-08-13
Axios 52 related

WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M

Verizon is set to sell the social network Tumblr to Automattic Inc, the owner of blog site and publishing tool Wordpress, the Wall Street Journal reports.

2019-05-24
TechCrunch 6 related

Automattic acquires Prospress, the company behind WooCommerce Subscriptions and other automated tools; the 20-person Prospress team will join Automattic

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress.

2016-05-13
VentureBeat 10 related

Automattic quietly acquired the rights to .blog TLD in 2015 for about $19M, will start selling the domains this year

The company behind the world's most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen.  —  WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has …

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 24 tech news articles mentioning WordPress.com, dating back to November 2015. The biggest stories include WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200... and Perplexity is launching a program to share ad revenue with partners such as Time, Der.... Frequently covered alongside Automattic, WordPress, TechCrunch, Sandy Hook, and Tumblr. Coverage has shifted toward consumer themes and away from enterprise.

Key Moments

2025Q2enterprise -100pts; consumer +100pts
2026Q1enterprise +33pts; consumer -33pts

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