Flickr Wall Art

I doubt it's any real challenge to FAA - as far as I can determine - few if any have ever even seen my three flicker accounts (from back when you could only have about 30 images without paying). Even though I've updated a couple of them.

Flicker is a very strong brand name in terms of photography and was already used by photographers 'illegally' to sell and market images. My very first sale was through flickr, although that's quite a while ago. Flickr also does quite well in terms of google rankings. I need to further explore the small print first though.

Roy, far more people use flickr to search for images. I have more views per day at flickr than a whole month here. I sold images for commercial use there.

My first sale was at Flickr about 7 yrs ago. A calendar company contacted me about using one of my photos. It worked out pretty well. Since joining FAA, I pretty much stopped uploading there until the past year but I'm not part of their program nor do I allow sharing of my photos. I only post small files.

OK - perhaps for commercial use - as in licensing - but how will flikr compete with a POD, FAA or any other. ??

I'm aware of it, in fact Sean mentioned it too in another thread a couple days ago .... but I don't think we're suppose to talk about competition here so I'll keep my thoughts and opinions to myself. Hint: what Alfred said.

looks like its only available for certain types of Creative Commons licensing so at this point I don't think I would be interested. Roy, from what I gather you can order a print and flickr will print and ship it. Just like FAA, although FAA at this point offers more options in terms of paper types as well as framing.

if further expanded, this move by flickr could change the landscape of POD. They were probably aware that people were bypassing them and decided to cut out the middleman.

Sorry if this is in breach of FAA rules; I think the news is relevant enough for our community here to share and maybe discuss as it does have the potential to be big.

https://siteanalytics.compete.com/flickr.com/#.VHK2NovF-jE

16.5 million unique views per month

Yahoo 169 million
Google 177 million
Pinterest just shy of 48 million views

FAA 1.078 million views

Zazzle off down to 4.6 million

Flickr is a powerhouse.

Youtube 166 million

Amazon 121 million

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flickr.com

ebay 68 million

Dave

thanks for the stats David, interesting indeed!

Might put the wind up people on here selling images that were in the public domain in the first place.

Dean, you ever gonna light that cig?