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Flickr is Hiring a Monetization & Partnership Product Manager

November 25, 2018 By Eric Reagan

Earlier this year, Smugmug acquired Flickr. As a customer/member of both services, I feel pretty good about the pairing. However, I think we all expected that some things had to change for Flickr to be viable going forward. Earlier this month, Flickr announced it was drastically reducing the amount of storage available for free users, dropping free storage from 1TB down to 1000 photos.

This move has been met with mixed emotions, although a large number of comments I’ve sampled seem very upset at the notion of deleting photos already on the service to get under the 1000 photos cap. I’m still optimistic about Flickr’s potential in the hands of Smugmug. I’ve been on both services since 2006.

Smugmug had a plan of what it wanted Flickr to be as both a community and a revenue source before the deal was made. A private company like Smugmug isn’t acquiring a community like Flickr without vision. Part of that vision has to be monetization. To that end, Smugmug recently posted a San Francisco-based job for Product Manager Monetization and Partnerships at Flickr.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photo Sharing Tagged With: flickr, smugmug

 

SmugMug Acquires Flickr

April 20, 2018 By Eric Reagan

Flickr has had its ups and downs over the years. It seemed like it would sit on the backburner of Yahoo forever. And, now, we see photographer-centric SmugMug buying up Flickr. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photo Sharing Tagged With: flickr, photo sharing, photosharing, smugmug

SmugMug’s Camera Awesome App Released for Android

November 12, 2013 By Eric Reagan

Camera Awesome Edit Screen

SmugMug has released its popular Camera Awesome app for Android. Camera Awesome has been downloaded over 20 million times on iOS. With this launch, SmugMug also built some new Android-specific features like high-speed burst shooting mode, facial recognition and tracking, and selective filtering (full list of new features below). [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, Camera Awesome, smugmug

Apple Aperture 3.5 Released

October 22, 2013 By Eric Reagan

Aperture 3

Alongside several other updates today, Apple updated Aperture to version 3.5. the update adds several new features and bug fixes.

Notably, Aperture 3.5 now supports iCloud Photo Sharing and Apple Maps support. For SmugMug users, you can now publish and sync galleries directly from Aperture to your SmugMug account.

The list of new features and bug fixes is below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: apple Tagged With: aperture, aperture 3, apple, iCloud, smugmug

SmugMug Launches Site Overhaul . . . with a Major Security Flaw

July 30, 2013 By Eric Reagan

SmugMug Design Sample

SmugMug has launched a complete site overhaul and, finally, makes it easy to make your site look great.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEK9xFnMtgk&w=640&h=360]

The overhaul includes the following major features: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photo Sharing Tagged With: photo sharing, smugmug

SmugMug Launches SmugMug for Android App

June 17, 2013 By Eric Reagan

SmugMug for Android

SmugMug has launched SmugMug for Android in the Google Play App Store.

SmugMug actually acquired a popular third party app, SmugFolio and hired the app’s developer, Brian Wood.

SmugFolio is now called “SmugMug for Android” and includes some new, exciting features including the ability to browse SmugMug user accounts without needing to log into the app. This is a great way to give friends and family a way to browse your public galleries on their phones and tablets.

SmugMug for Android is available for free here on the Google Play Store.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, smugmug

Camera Awesome for iPad Now Available

October 8, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Camera Awesome iPad

SmugMug’s popular Camera Awesome app is now available for iPad.  The Camera Awesome iPhone app, which launched last February, now has 7 million users that have taken and shared more than 160 million photos. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: app, apple, camera app, Camera Awesome, ipad, smugmug

SmugMug Delivers Price Hike, Users Set to Jump Off Bridge

September 3, 2012 By Eric Reagan

Late Friday night, SmugMug subscribers (including yours truly) got an email regarding a new pricing structure for Pro users.  The former account options have been changed from Basic, Power and Pro to now Basic, Power, Portfolio and Business.

Essentially, the Pro account is split into Portfolio and Business.  The key difference between the two new types of accounts is that the Business account allows you to set prices and make profits on prints purchased through your online account.

Previously, the Pro account, which allowed you to set prices and make profits on prints, was priced at $150 per year.  Now, the Portfolio account is priced at $150 per year.  The Business account is priced at $300 per year.  Existing Pro users can renew for $250 for next year. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: online photo sharing, photo hosting, smugmug

SmugMug at PhotoPlus 2011

November 4, 2011 By Eric Reagan

SmugMug had a packed booth at PhotoPlus 2011.  There were a number of SmugMug staff members on hand who were offering support to members on the iMacs in their booth, as well as showing off site features to prospective customers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photo Sharing Tagged With: photo sharing, photoplus, PhotoPlus 2011, smugmug, unlimited, video

SmugMug Adds Video Sales for Pro Members

October 3, 2011 By Eric Reagan

SmugMug Video Sales

Although it has offered video uploads and embeds for over three years, SmugMug has just added the ability to sell video downloads for pro members.  If you’re a pro member and accustomed to pricing your wares, video download pricing works just like any other digital download products.

Full details over on SmugMug’s blog.

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: smugmug, video, video downloads

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