I am one of those who understood the value and have continued my Pro subscription – originally signed up for in 2009. Some people understood the value and doubled down to stay. Some people didn’t like that letter and bailed. ( See the letter from Don and read for yourself.) Flickr needs to do more of this and I wish EVERY business were this open about their situation. They asked the photography community to help keep Flickr alive.

SmugMug bought Flickr to save it but most likely underestimated the cost of hosting tens of BILLIONS photographs in very high-resolution.Ī month ago, the owners issued a letter that was transparent, honest and frank. I know the people behind SmugMug and they are all hard-working, dedicated, sincere, people. Verizon bought Yahoo and things got worse. Yahoo bought the company from its husband and wife founders a year later, and pretty much ran it into the ground. I think Flickr’s worth saving and I think it IS on those of us in the photography community who rely on Flickr to do the work.įlickr has been around since 2004.

Existing Pro subscribers can renew now for the old price of $50.NOTE: I don’t depend on income from this site to support myself, so I didn’t use a Click-Baity headline like “Should we save Flickr? – Who cares?” I probably would get more views if I did that, but it’s not my style. As well as the annual subscription for $60, there’s a $7 monthly subscription, a $19 three-month subscription, and a $118 two-year subscription. The new pricing went into effect on January 21st. The Pro subscription offers users various benefits, including unlimited full-quality storage, ad-free browsing for themselves and their visitors, access to advanced account stats, and partner discounts, among other things. We need more Flickr Pro members if we want to keep the Flickr dream alive.” MacAskill adds: “We cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we’ve been doing.”

In CEO Don MacAskill’s open letter, he had said the company is “losing a lot less money than it was. Following the admission in December 2019 that the company is still losing money despite SmugMug’s acquisition of the company and subsequent efforts to update and modernize the platform, Flickr has announced that the price of a Pro subscription is increasing to $60 per year, up from $50 previously.

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