Flickr Appeals Users to Upgrade to Paid Tier to Save the Company
Dec. 21, 2019Flickr is reportedlysending out emailsto users, urging them to subscribe to its paid tier if they want the popular photo-hosting service to survive. In a distress message believed to have been sent out to millions of users, Don MacAskill, the CEO ofFlickrowner, SmugMug, said that the service is“still losing money”and desperately needs the help of caring users to survive.
According to MacAskill,“Flickr needs your help. It’s still losing money. Hundreds of thousands of loyal Flickr members stepped-up and joined Flipckr Pro, for which we are eternally grateful. It’s losing a lot less money now that it was. But it’s not making enough”. He also added that the company needs more Flickr Pro members because“we cannot continue to operate it at a loss as we’ve been doing”.
Giving in to public pressure, SmugMug earlier this year finally dumped Yahoo’s login system that was introduced in 2007, two years after Yahoo acquired the website. The company also limited free users to just 1,000 photos per account as per of a concerted effort to increase the number of paid users on the platform.
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