Zooomr provides a photosharing service similar to the one provided by flickr. The limits of zooomr are higher than flickr. Free accounts have 50MB upload limit a month, while pro accounts are limited to 2.5GB; plus it cost less (it’s free for bloggers).
If you are wondering what is in for them and give out 30GB of space a year. Well, the way I see it is; for marketing reasons. This is a marketing trick to advertise the service for free (and this is why they are giving free accounts to bloggers only and not anybody else). In addition, pro users will invest a significant amount of time tagging, geo-tagging, etc. and will probably remain to the service after the pro account expires and end up buy a new subscription for next year and the year after and earnings go on. Finally it gives zooomr the opportunity to test its service at high loads. If the service is a bit unreliable you will not complain because it is free. However, if you were paying for it, you would consider the service unacceptable. So I guess it is a mutual need of each other and this way everybody is happy. The users get the 2.5GB limit, which is massive, and zooomr gets publicity and test bed for its service.
Well done guys!
Hosted on Zooomr
Here is one of my images to obtain my free account 
1 response so far ↓
1 Thomas Hawk // Oct 13, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Hey Man. Thanks for blogging about Zooomr. We love bloggers. I’m a blogger myself and we definitely want to make a place that is as blog friendly as possible.
You are pretty spot on about our reasons for offering bloggers free Pro accounts. If bloggers like the service and blog about Zooomr then this is awareness that is built and that’s worth something. The least we can do to say thanks is give you a free Pro account. We hope to continue the free Pro accounts for bloggers as long as we can but at some point we may need to revisit this. We do have to try to turn a profit at some point.
We have also tried to incorporate blog friendly features into Zooomr. We are the only photo sharing site that I know of, for instance, that offers trackbacks. This way when people find your shot on Zooomr they can see that it is linked to your blog and click back to you to find out more about the image.
Let us know ways that you think we can improve and we really appreciate your helping us get the word out.
“So I guess it is a mutual need of each other and this way everybody is happy.”
That’s a great way to put it.
Cheers,
Tom
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