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Flickr's mobile app finally launched in 2009, but it was slow and beset by bugs. Silicon Valley talked of the “Flickrization of Yahoo.” And Yahoo retired its photo service, Yahoo Photos, and made Flickr its flagship.īut innovation at Flickr sputtered under the Yahoo umbrella, Butterfield told Wired. He and his co-founders found themselves scrapping for resources, delaying critical progress as smartphone photography exploded. Founded in 2004 by Stewart Butterfield and his then-wife, Caterina Fake, Flickr was sold a year later to Yahoo for $35 million after the service gained a massive following. The SmugMug acquisition brings to a close a long and frequently painful chapter for Flickr.

We try to listen to our customers and when enough of them ask for something that’s important to them or to the community, we go and build it,” he said. “It sounds silly for the CEO not to totally know what he’s going to do, but we haven’t built SmugMug on a master plan either. We are going to have to take a detailed look at the business and make sure it’s growing and healthy.”Ī longtime fan of Flickr, MacAskill says before making any decisions, he plans to collect feedback from employees and users. “We certainly think we need to operate it with an eye to our cash flow and our profitability.

MacAskill says he does not yet know what his plans are for Flickr’s business. Flickr also offers “Pro” subscriptions for $6 a month or $50 a year.

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The majority of Flickr users have free accounts that run advertising alongside photos. “SmugMug has the potential to offer that community a much more curated offering as well as the guarantee that photography is not just a core focus, but a priority.” “While most regular consumers might have moved on from Flickr, the platform is a go-to point for a vibrant community of people who love photography,” Milanesi said. That may be especially true when it comes to the safekeeping of photographs, which are often more personal than words, says Carolina Milanesi, a technology analyst with Creative Strategies. As preferences shift - or as users of digital platforms become better informed about the consequences of sharing their private data - we could be entering a world in which a substantial number of consumers view their data as an asset they won’t part with for free,” Makan Delrahim, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, said at a conference in Chicago Thursday. “We may now be witnessing a fundamental change in the marketplace. “We don't mine our customers' photos for information to sell to the highest bidder, or to turn into targeted advertising campaigns,” he said.Īfter revelations that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information pilfered by Cambridge Analytica, a British political firm with ties to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, consumers are having second thoughts about trading their data for a free service. MacAskill says the SmugMug model works for the business and his conscience because it aligns his incentives with his customers.

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The surprise deal ends months of uncertainty for Flickr, whose fate had been up in the air since last year when Yahoo was bought by Verizon for $4.5 billion and joined with AOL in Verizon’s Oath subsidiary.Īnd, in an industry that dangles free services to suck up people’s personal information to target ads, SmugMug has catered to people who are willing to pay for privacy and storage, offering four levels of subscriptions to appeal to everyday shutterbugs and professional photographers alike. “Flickr has survived through thick-and-thin and is core to the entire fabric of the Internet.” It’s a fantastic product and a beloved brand, supplying tens of billions of photos to hundreds of millions of people around the world,” MacAskill said.

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“Flickr is an amazing community, full of some of the world's most passionate photographers. He declined to disclose the terms of the deal, which closed this week. SmugMug, an independent, family-run company, will maintain Flickr as a standalone community of amateur and professional photographers and give the long neglected service the focus and resources it deserves, MacAskill said in an exclusive interview. SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill told USA TODAY he's committed to breathing new life into the faded social networking pioneer, which hosted photos and lively interactions long before it became trendy. SAN FRANCISCO - Flickr has been snapped up by Silicon Valley photo-sharing and storage company SmugMug, USA TODAY has learned.

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