EyeEm
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| A community & marketplace for real photography | |
| Online photo sharing service | |
| operator | EyeEm Mobile GmbH |
| editorial staff | CEO: Florian Meissner
CTO: Ramzi Rizk |
| user | 22 million (as of April 2017) |
| Registration | Registration with an email address or Facebook required |
| On-line | August 2011 (official, previously available as a beta version) |
| https://www.eyeem.com/ | |
EyeEm is a free online photo sharing service . The service is available as an app for iOS and Android devices and as a website . EyeEm offers users the opportunity to edit photos and share them with the photo community and also on other social networks . A "Sell" function was added in mid-2015, with EyeEm giving users of the service 50% of the revenue.
The service is operated by EyeEm Mobile GmbH , based in Berlin .
Functions
The user can Photos make and this by using 24 filters and edit twelve frame and trim. The photo can be given a heading and added to multiple albums. In addition, the picture can be provided with the current location and friends and people can be marked. An update for the app was released at the end of 2014. This now enables the selection of filters with adjustable intensity, tools for fine-tuning such as the setting of contrast, exposure and sharpness and there is full control over the size of the photos. This means that photos can be cropped, rotated, straightened and the perspective changed. Another feature is Open Edit, with which users can show how they have edited their photos with EyeEm. The finished photo can be shared with the EyeEm community or later on other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. The photo can later be liked and commented on by other users. Images that you have uploaded yourself are displayed on your own profile .
Here the user can add a profile photo and cover photo of himself and give an additional description about himself. Users of the service can also track albums and take part in missions. In these missions, the participant should share a photo according to specifications with the EyeEm partner in the community. The winners of these challenges can win prizes. With the “Discover” function, images of your own predefined preferences, friends and close quarters are displayed.
With another app, The Roll, EyeEm users can manage their image database on their mobile phones. The images are scanned by an intelligent algorithm according to quality criteria, the images that perform best are displayed first.
history
Initially, the app could also be used on Windows Phone . In the summer of 2013, EyeEm stated that the Windows Phone app had been discontinued due to low user numbers.
In March 2014 EyeEm announced a cooperation with Getty Images and published the EyeEm Market , in which anyone can purchase licenses for selected images from EyeEm users, provided they have given their prior consent. Photographers receive half of the income, the other half goes to the company.
In April 2015, EyeEm had 13 million users worldwide, mostly in the US , Germany , Mexico , Brazil and Japan . The service has users in over 130 countries and is available in more than 20 languages. In the spring of 2016, the photo service had 17 million users worldwide. There are now 22 million since April 2017.
In February 2019 it was announced that EyeEm had had a data hack in February 2018 . Over 22 million records were stolen and later sold on the Darknet . These contained email addresses and passwords. The passwords had been hashed using the SHA-1 method, which had been considered unsafe for years .
Companies
The operator of the service is EyeEm Mobile GmbH , based in Berlin. The start-up company , founded by Florian Meissner, Lorenz Aschoff, Gen Sadakane and Ramzi Rizkm , received its first financing from angel investors in 2011 . A $ 6 million investment round followed in July 2013, led by Earlybird Venture Capital . In April 2015, the investment fund of PayPal founder Peter Thiel , Valar Ventures, invested more than 18 million US dollars in the company in a further financing round.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Photo licenses: EyeEm sells his pictures in Germany - Golem.de. In: www.golem.de. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Carsten Knobloch: EyeEm 5.0: Photo app with many new functions. In: Caschy's blog. December 18, 2014, accessed June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Missions Archives - EyeEm Blog. (No longer available online.) In: EyeEm Blog. Archived from the original on June 22, 2016 ; Retrieved June 22, 2016 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b The new app from EyeEm is supposed to clean up your smartphone pictures. In: Gründerszene Magazin. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Hesse, René: EyeEm discontinues Windows Phone app (accessed: September 15, 2015)
- ↑ a b The Berlin photo start-up EyeEm receives 16 million euros from investors. In: WIRED Germany. April 17, 2015, accessed June 22, 2016 .
- ↑ EyeEm - from the photo app to the photo marketplace. In: deutsche-startups.de. April 13, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2017 .
- ↑ 620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts. In: The Register. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Profile - EyeEm. In: crunchbase.com. Crunchbase, 2017, accessed January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Photography community EyeEm raises $ 18M from Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures. In: VentureBeat. Retrieved June 22, 2016 .
