I have two amazing products and two amazing businesses I want to make more amazing, not less. Lots of photographers use both because they want the community Flickr but they want the customizable presentation of SmugMug…Trying to jam them together without that deep level of engagement, insight, knowledge, learning and quite frankly, experience, I think would just be toxic to both companies and that’s not what I want. It’s a huge opportunity available to us…We think both products are incredible as standalone products. We think they are two awesome but different approaches to supporting photographers, and sort of driving value for photographers of all shapes and sizes and skill levels, but it certainly is the community aspect of Flickr that I have long admired, quite frankly, been a little jealous of. “We’re not planning on integrating the platform or anything like that. One of SLR Lounge’s founding partners, Justin Lin, had a chat with SmugMug CEO, Don MacAskill who told us about his plans for Flickr, some analysis of why it’s still relevant, and shed some light into the ethos behind SmugMug.įirst and foremost for the Flickr loyal, MacAskill has no intention at the moment of turning Flickr into some sort of Flickr/SmugMug hybrid, and is appreciative of what the Flickr team was able to do, and for what Yahoo allowed them to do.
Would Flickr be absorbed? Would SmugMug turn Flickr into an entirely paid concept? Would Flickr even continue to exist? These are the kinds of questions that filled forums and headspace in the community, and now we’ve got answers direct from the source.Īdorama INSPIRE | A Week Of Hands-On Creative Events Unlike Anything You’ve Been To So when Flickr was acquired by SmugMug earlier this year there was copious amounts of excitement and concern.
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