Photo sharing service Flickr was acquired by rival service SmugMug and the world's largest photo service community was born

Flickr, a photo sharing service, is announced on the official blog that SmugMug, a rival service, bought it.

Flickr joins SmugMug to create the world's best home for photography. | Flickr Blog
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/04/20/together-smugmug-flickr/

SmugMug snaps up Flickr photo service from Verizon's Oath
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/04/20/smugmug-buys-flickr-verizon-oath/537377002/

Photo service Flickr Yahoo! in 2005 It was acquired by 35 million dollars (about 3.9 billion yen), but growth ceased by the rise of Instagram and other social photography services, Yahoo! Marisa Mayer's CEO (then) aimed to expand the service scale and cooperation with the Yahoo.com account was incorporated. After that, Yahoo! Ois owned by Verizon owned by Verizon 's sale to the Verizon, Oath decided to sell Flickr to SmugMug, a rival' s photo sharing service. The purchase price at the time of article creation is unknown.

While Flickr offers photo sharing services including not only professional photographers but also general users free of charge, SmugMug is mainly serving photographic sellers, mainly professional photographers, The scope of service is different. For this reason, SmugMug's CEO Don McCaught said that the integration of the two companies created the world's largest photo community, centered on photographers, and is important for revitalizing the community of people who love photography, We also said that it does not have any clear vision on how to manage the Flickr business at the moment and aggregate opinions of Flickr employees and Flickr users before making important decisions on the management side It is planned to do.


Flickr is an official blog, confirmed that it is in the pioneering position of the online photo community by joining with SmugMug, furthermore it will develop to the best place for creators, and on concrete information such as future service contents It is planned to be available in May 2018.

Even after the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug, both services are expected to survive without being integrated. As McAfusel CEO stated, making the best use of the merit of the world's largest photo community aims at improving each service, as a result of late response to mobile terminals such as smartphones, photography related services such as Instagram The attention of SmugMug's attention is drawn to how Flickr allowing the rise of service regains service glow.