A CLOSER LOOK AT UNSPLASH
Co-Founder and CEO Mikael Cho about the importance of free photos.
THIS IS
UNSPLASH
The internets source of freely-usable images.
Since 2013 more than 200.000 photographers shared their work and built relationships with other creators through Unsplash.
HOW IT STARTED
Founder Mikael Cho struggled to find great, free images on the web.
He uploaded 10 photos to Tumblr and allowed anybody to use them, without attribution or licensing fees.
One of the first photos uploaded to Unsplash:
See Photo on Unsplash
What kind
of people
use Unsplash?
?
"70% of our users
never used stock photo sites before."
The people
who contribute
want to be part of something
larger.
"80 percent of the uploaders consider themselves to be amateurs."
Artists can get
hired through Unsplash.
Milan Csizmadia on Unsplash
Today even institutions like the New York Public Library share their visuals on Unsplash. Why?
Unsplash is the place where most people can find their collection.
The head of the statue
of liberty in Paris.
See Photo on Unsplash
Some last
words to all
the content creators out there?
?
"Make something
that you can sustain
for a long period."
WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SUCCESS STORY
OF UNSPLASH?
Read the full article with Mikael Cho on our Blog.
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