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Type of site | Image hosting service |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Owners | |
| Key people | |
| Employees | 210[2] |
| Subsidiaries | Flickr |
| URL | smugmug.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Not required for viewing |
| Launched | November 3, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-11-03) |
| Current status | Active |
SmugMug is a paidimage sharing,image hosting service, andonline video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company also facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers.[3] In 2018, SmugMug purchasedFlickr.[4]
SmugMug was founded by son and father team Don and Chris MacAskill and launched on November 3, 2002.[1]
The company was started without anyventure capital funding, and for a time was run out of the MacAskill family home. In a 2007 article, theLos Angeles Times wrote:
They started on a shoestring budget in 2002, not moving into real offices in Mountain View, Calif., until April. Before that, the MacAskills and their employees set up shop in the five-bedroom home of Chris and his wife, Toni. Engineers bunked two to a bedroom. Blow dryers and vacuums routinely blew circuit breakers. Barking yellow Labrador retrievers chased tennis balls up and down the stairs.[1]
In 2010, twopetabytes of photos were stored on theAmazon S3 service.[5]
On April 20, 2018, SmugMug acquiredFlickr from Yahoo (while it was briefly known asOath.)[4] SmugMug and Flickr are certifiedbenefit corporations committed to preserving photographic history.[6]
SmugMug offers three different account levels, each with a different subset of features.[3]
SmugMug has options to allow control over the privacy and security of published photos. It has support for both account-level and gallery-level passwords, as well as hidden galleries.
There is also a friends and familysocial networking service for members of the service to use, which allows for sharing of photos only to people known to the publisher.
In conjunction with its print service, SmugMug has a service aimed at professionalphotographers. Professional accounts have the ability to add customdigital watermarkings to their photos. They can also sell prints and digital downloads of their photos through the SmugMug interface with their own pricing.
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