StumpleUponthe service that helps you discover websites has reached 500 million page views a month. It’s Founder and CEOGarret Campjust tweeted this out: Below is theInstagramimage Camp also tweeted, it shows the user growth in the last 7 months: The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
In January, we reported thatStumbleUponhad broken a new record with27.5 million stumbles in one day. At the beginning of this month,we interviewed Marc Leibowitz, StumbleUpon’s VP of Marketing and Business Development who told us that since 2009, StumbleUpon has grown from 6 million to 15 million users. Recommendations have tripled, now surpassing 800 million every month. Each month, over 3-4 million users are active on StumbleUpon, with the primary base being in the US....
As of today,popular traffic driver StumbleUponis rolling out a new beta feature it is appropriately calling the “Explore Box”. The Explore Box builds on StumbleUpon’s ability to find the subjects you are most interested in by allowing you to manually explore the topic you are searching for. How does it work? Simply type in an interest you would like to investigate into the Explore Box (keywords like “technology” or “social media”, for example), and from that point on, every click of the “Stumble” button will only bring up sites related to that theme or recommended by other Stumblers....
Those who are dedicated users ofStumbleUponwon’t be at all surprised by what I found via an interview on Friday. For those of you who haven’t used the service, or perhaps you have but you’ve not done so fully, read on. StumbleUpon is a true example of the power that a site can hold, even when it’s one that nobody really talks about. First, a history lesson. StumbleUpon was created in 2001 as a better way to find really great photos online....
StumbleUpon, thatmassive networkthat people never seem to mention, has just taken another step toward helping publishers to not only get but also keep traffic on their sites. According to theNew York Times, the company has just released a new set of tools comprised ofwidgets, that should accomplish the goal. Traditionally, StumbleUpon traffic is generated by people “stumbling” onto a page of your site. From there, they can rate it up, rate it down or stumble on to the next....
