Flickr had been the leading Photo sharing site for quite a while but off late it’s been trumped by Facebook. Flickr adds about 3 million photos every day as opposed to Facebook which adds around 30 million photos every day. Social networks, it seems have come up as preferred locations for sharing photos as opposed to the photo sharing services.
Facebook Photos saw over 153 million uniques in Jan '09, while #2 Flickr saw only 66.7 million
Stan Schroeder of Mashable explains
Flickr has many additional features, and the images can be bigger, but ultimately people use Facebook for the same thing – sharing photos with their friends. Add to that the fact that photo management on Facebook is very elegantly done, with some simple editing options such as rotating and tagging added into the mix, and you’ve got yourself a nice, large photo sharing site for not-too-demanding users – and all your friends are already using it
I’d say it makes perfect sense. You’d like to share those moments with your friends, and they’re already there on social networks… why bother with an additional service… so I guess Youtube is next.
What do you think?
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Sachendra Yadav // April 19, 2009 at 9:22 pm |
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Phil Barrett // April 20, 2009 at 5:27 pm |
facebook has trumped flickr because of usability differences. flickr has limits on what you can upload, it’s harder to find, and fewer of the “masses” are on it.
With facebook, even my mother can upload an entire album quickly and easily and she doesn’t have limits as to how many.
Once again user experience trumps technology
Having said that, i doubt facebook will ever take over youtube as the video leader as most people don’t create or search for videos like they take or search for pictures – or at least they don’t today.
What makes youtube great is that you can find amazing videos from around the world… where as you are only mostly interested in pictures of your friends and family.
Techgutter.com // July 13, 2009 at 10:09 pm |
I go to Flickr to look at amazing photography or download a new wallpaper every now and then, I go to Facebook to see pictures of my friends drunk on the weekend.
They kinda have different USPs
Sachendra Yadav // July 13, 2009 at 11:47 pm |
Completely agree… these figures just show that the primary market of photos is personal and that’s why Facebook is going off the charts