What’s Flickr Commons?
And how could it help your institution?The Flickr Commons is a special program that lives on flickr.com. It’s designed to support cultural organizations in sharing their photography collections with the public, and to help them gather new information added by interested Flickr members.
The main benefits of Flickr Commons are:
- Huge exposure of your collections, with views in the millions over time
- New possibilities to easily connect with international audiences and build community around your collection
- Free Flickr Pro account, sponsored by Flickr.com
- Low-cost, high-usability, high-traffic web platform, used by millions of people since it launched in 2004
- World-class software features to organize and share your photography collections, like albums, galleries, tagging and more
- Joining a community of over 100 other international cultural organizations
- Technical accessibility via the powerful Flickr API