When we see the beautiful artistry of the internet, the creativity of several photos and videos amaze us all. But behind the mastery of such art, lies the artist who has spent years perfecting the craft. This helps us as viewers to enjoy the content and get inspired from it.
The photos and videos usually get uploaded to a platform, which also encourages the individual to pursue making more content. Flickr is a very popular platform that allows its users to upload content to the platform. Flickr was founded in 2004 in Canada and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.
The company was founded by Stewart Butterfield along with Caterina Fake. Although over the years, Flickr had several changes in management, the ecosystem of the company has always remained unchanged. But Flickr has recorded a significant drop in revenue as the competition in online content sharing platforms is very high.
The idea behind Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting along with a video hosting online platform. The popular American company is also said to offer several other advanced features for its users. Flickr can be considered as a social networking platform, where users get to create a free account and share contents like images and videos with the internet.
Reports indicate that Flickr also provides a subscription plan, Flickr Pro, where it offers unlimited storage, thereby making it an inexpensive and accessible hosting platform. The company is said to operate as a B2C setup with a freemium business plan. The basic features of Flickr are offered to its users, who use the free plan.
The subscription plan of Flickr is said to be around $7.99 for a monthly plan, $21.99 for a 3-month plan and $5.99 per month for an annual plan. Some of the key partners of Flickr are Yahoo along with Verizon Communications and several others. The company encourages its users with many activities like photo and video sharing along with hosting it. It also works as a source of inspiration for its users to upload beautiful content for the Flickr community.
The customer relationship development of Flickr is stellar as it works towards more interaction on the company’s social media platform. Some of the customers of Flickr can be businesses, entrepreneurs, daily average users and many others. Some of the categories of Flickr channels are app marketplaces, APIs, Android along with iOS, Flickr.com and many others.
The features of Flickr
Customers can set their profiles on Flickr in a process similar to that like other social networking platforms. The gallery section of Flickr stores your content, which is similar to other social networking platforms. Flickr offers a feature called ‘Photostream’, where the content is solely yours. Here, the platform offers us to keep our content public or private.
If you choose to keep your content public, users visiting your account can see your content. But if your settings is turned to private, it cannot be viewed, unless the access is shared by you.
- In the album section, you can set your photos accordingly in an order and users can understand the message behind any photo from the type of your album. The album feature helps users to organize the content and create a desirable portfolio, if required. The album feature is really helpful for photographers and businesses, working on several projects.
- The ‘Faves’ feature of Flickr is very useful when it comes to saving a picture for future projects. This section helps you organize any image that you want to work on later. The whole idea of a social networking platform is to interact and network with other people. And Flickr provides a wonderful ecosystem of connecting its users with one another. As a user, you can connect with other people on the website.
When it comes to checking the statistics of your Flickr account, the platform offers a seamless process for it. Adding to this, as a user you can tag your photos like ‘mountains’, ‘vacation’, ‘everest’ and many others. You can tag your pictures one by one or altogether. You can also use the tag feature for several photos with the help of the batch editor of Flickr.
Flickr is an inclusive platform
You can create a set on the platform. On Flickr, you have the feature to add a set button for any photo. Here, Flickr also forwards the other drop down sets that you have created. You can give a name to the set and also add some description to it.
On adding more than one photo to the set, you have to organize it on the top menu section. You can pick your selected set from it and add more to it. For a free member, you can add up to 3 photos. But for a paid member, Flickr allows you to add unlimited photos.
When you look into the collections section, you have the ability to add more than one set to a collection. If you are traveling to different locations, Flickr helps you organize all those photos under one collection.
Flickr was once a more popular photo sharing platform. And the people really enjoyed sharing photos on Flickr. But with the rise of other social networking platforms, the competition became more difficult. We all have to consider staying innovative and adapt ourselves to the progress of technology. Any piece of tech that ceases to develop with time might steer towards downgrade. Flickr, although a really diverse photo and content sharing platform, had to compete with other platforms that have navigated themselves to be tech giants of our time. In a world that is daunted by the onset of artificial intelligence, we have to look forward to embracing newer technology and building our skills for serving the upliftment of society. In any organization that wants to grow, understanding the latest market trends and creating an inclusive and supportive work culture is a great way to start.
