SplashPress Media Acquires Tubetorial and Cutline

March 10, 2007 | By David Krug | Filed Under General

Joss over at 901am breaks the news first a few minutes early but that’s ok.

SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald and Performancing, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Tubetorial LLC including the Tubetorial website and the Cutline Theme Community.

SplashPress Media operates and owns 30 blogs, and a variety of other online web properties. SplashPress Media has been online as a hosting company and a support agency for publishers for a few years before launching several blogs and acquiring others.

According to David Krug, “Over the last year Tubetorial has defined itself as a destination for people looking to learn on the web. We plan to continue that growth and dominance in the future for a long time to come. On a side note the Cutline acquisition allows us to develop customizable themes to fit the needs of the entire blogosphere in a fashion that fits in well with our community at Performancing. Cutline and Tubetorial will be operated independently of SplashPress Media under the guidance of the Performancing Team.”

The great thing about this acquisition is my excitement to see both the Tubetorial community and the Cutline Community grow in a positive direction. I plan to put resources into play to help the Cutline community get as much active support as possible while making themes something that are easy to customize and fit for any level of blogger.


About the author: David Krug is the founder of WordPress Upgrades, a site covering all things to pimp out your WordPress Install. For more interesting content Follow him on Twitter.



Comments

12 Responses to “SplashPress Media Acquires Tubetorial and Cutline”

  1. Liz Strauss on March 10th, 2007 1:52 am

    Congratulations to SplashPress Media. It’s a fabulous acquisition. Both products and their correspoinding communities are vibrant rich resources that bloggers need. Good luck, David moving forward!

  2. Matt Wolff on March 10th, 2007 2:21 am

    Congratulations from all of here at midPhase to everyone at SplashPress Media! Thanks for being such great advocates of our hosting and we wish you nothing but continued success and prosperity! We are truly in the age of the blogger and you’re helping lead the charge in this, the new Internet revolution.

  3. David Krug on March 10th, 2007 2:27 am

    Matt,
    As usual a pleasure to be hosting at MidPhase :)

  4. Chris Baskind on March 10th, 2007 10:49 am

    Nice catch! Tubetorial is a great brand, and Cutline is probably my all-time favorite WP theme. Good luck with both.

  5. Chris Cree on March 10th, 2007 1:42 pm

    Sounds like a really good move. I’m with Chris above. Love Cutline.

  6. Lorelle VanFossen on March 10th, 2007 4:44 pm

    Awesome. Now we have to figure out what these things are and how to use them. Congrats!

  7. Darren Cronian on March 10th, 2007 7:57 pm

    I was just thinking the same Lorelle. Congratulations.

  8. jhay on March 11th, 2007 12:58 am

    Wow, I hope this change brings even more improvement to the Cutline theme. I just love it.

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