History
2018: Smugmug purchased Flickr
In April, 2018 the professional service for exchange of photos of Smugmug announced Flickr purchase. The cost and other terms of transaction of the company did not open.
About merger of Flickr on the Twitter blog the founder and the CEO of Smugmug Don Makeskill wrote. He noted that he does not plan merge of two brands and services yet.
 | Now Flickr belongs to Smugmug, but not Yahoo. We - the photoplatform focused on visual stories. Our history of relationship with the photographers committed to self-improvement in a profession does us by the ideal partner for Flickr and its creative community, – it is said on the website Smugmug. |  |
According to Don Makeskill, the company hopes "inhale new life" in Flickr. SmugMug will support service as the independent platform for amateur photographers and professionals. He also called Flickr "the amazing community complete of the most passionate photographers from around the world" and "permanent service which put a basis to the Internet".
| | For so many years we endured very many competitors. We were asked how we are going to compete with Kodak, and now this company is absent any more — Makeskill said, having added that Yahoo just ceased to be interested in development of service which he considers "one of the greatest treasures of the Internet. | |
Photoservice belonged to Yahoo for 13 years. Unlike Flickr, the SmugMug company which purchased service has no free accounts: the minimum rate costs $4 a month and is intended generally for storage of a photo.[1]
The Re/code edition notes that return of Flickr to former glory is improbable: for example, mobile application of Flickr strongly concedes to competitors and now does not enter even in top-150 loadings for iPhone.
2017: Verizon purchased Yahoo together with Flickr
In June, 2017 Verizon purchased Yahoo then for Flickr the uncertainty period began.
2015: Flickr expanded the list of licenses for placement of images
On March 30, 2015 the photohosting of Flickr announced expansion of the list of licenses under which[2] can be placed[2].
In addition to normal the license Creative Commons, it is possible to place images in the form of public property (Public Domain) or under license CC0 which mean failure from copyright and providing use of content to an opportunity, without being limited to any framework.
2014: 92 million users
Audience of the project for the beginning of 2014 - 92 million users who daily exchange about one million photos according to Flickr[3].
2013: Free of charge to 1TB for each user
In May, 2013 the service carried out large-scale updating — all users had an opportunity free of charge to store up to 1 terabyte of full-size photos. Since launch of this function the number of daily published photos grew by 170%.
2011: 6 billion pictures are loaded
Flickr remains rather closed, niche community. In 2011 the service reported that on it about 6 billion pictures are placed. For comparison — since launch of function of exchange of photos in Facebook in October, 2005 users of social network over 400 billion pictures.
In 2011 mobile version for Android OS is released.
2009: Mobile application for iOS is released
The first mobile application of Flickr for iOS was released in 2009 — the majority of the photos posted on service in 2014 becomes the camera iPhone.
In 2008 on service the possibility of loading of video appeared.
2005: Yahoo buys Flickr for $35 million
In 2005 Flickr was purchased by Yahoo! company, according to unofficial data, for $35 million.
2004: Start of service
The photohosting of Flickr was started on February 10, 2004 and was one of the first user services Web 2.0.
Notes
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