Fotolog
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photoblog |
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| Available in | Basque, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Italian, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
| Founded | May 2002 |
| Owner | HiMedia Group |
| Website | fotolog.com |
| Alexa rank | 5,672 (December 31, 2014[update]) |
| Advertising | Google AdSense |
| Launched | April 23, 2002 |
| Current status | Online |
Fotolog.com (originally Fotolog.net) is a web site for sharing pictures through online photo diaries or photoblogs. Its owners claim that it has registered users in 200 countries, hosting 200 million photos. On August, 17th, 2007, French online advertising company agreed to acquire Fotolog for 65.8 million euros.
Launched in May 2002, the Fotolog site formerly generated over 3 billion page views, and received over 20 million unique visitors each month. In 2007, Fotolog.com was in the list of the top 20 busiest websites in the Alexa global site rankings.
Fotolog is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc., which is a privately held company backed by BV Capital, 3i and several individual investors. Fotolog headquarters were in New York City, prior to its acquisition by Hi-Media Group.
The site had frequent technical problems during its growth. On December 10, 2005, the site stated that "Fotolog is currently able to accept 1,000 new free members from each country each day", up from 500 a day previously. According to Fotolog co-founder Scott Heiferman, upgrades had made the site much faster and as of November 16, 2005, Fotolog was generating 750 million pageviews a month.
Originally, free members could not upload during peak hours, and only 500 people a day (per country) were allowed to register. In mid-2006, 10,000 people per day, per country were allowed to register, and on August 14, 2006, the limiting of daily registrations was removed.
In 2005 Fotolog received an investment of 2.4 million dollars from BV Capital.
In Spring 2006, a book of photographs from fotolog.com was published by the UK publisher Thames & Hudson titled fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age. Edited by Andrew Long and containing text contributions by Nick Currie, the book is organized in sections highlighting several themes that arose in the site's community of photographers and several individual photographers from some of the major cities and countries with many fotolog users.
On August, 17th, 2007, French online advertising company agreed to acquire Fotolog for a combination of stock and cash worth $90 million.
After a few weeks of periodic downtime, on January 26, 2016 Fotolog announced (in the form of a large header message on all pages) that the site was being closed down and would become "permanently unavailable" on the 20th of February. However, such header was removed later and as of August 19th, 2016 the website remains online.
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