Flickr fun without Flickr
On Wednesday night, our friends at photo-sharing site Flickr are having some storage issues, and the site's been down for a bit. Instead of going dark, they've got a blog entry in place detailing what is going on, and have set up a nifty contest (click image) to give you something to do to soothe your addiction while this is happening.
*Gasp!* An online company suggested people do something in the real world? Yep, and set up a contest that will cost them - well, sans the advertising click-throughs that they're not getting - about $24.95, the value of a Flickr Pro account.
This isn't the be-all, end-all for any company facing an issue like this, but based on the early returns from the people tracking back to Flickr's blog, I'd say that the photo addicts enthusiasts that frequent the pages there are pleased.
Comments
Leave it to the innovative folks at flickr to turn downtime into a positive business practice... the little two dot contest is getting more press than most of their previous press releases. Quite interesting if you ask me. Viral marketing...even when there is no site running to actively market.
Posted by: clickykbd | July 19, 2006 09:21 PM
Thanks for hanging with us- we want to at least put a positive light on getting things working again for our friends on the site! We are busily working late.
:-D
(Yes, I work here.)
Posted by: Kevin | July 19, 2006 10:02 PM
I have to agree, I ran upstairs, printed out the circles, colored, photographed and now waiting! I think the circles are an awesome idea for PR because I have a feeling this isn't going to be back online anytime soon. Uggg I guess I will need to sleep it off!
Posted by: mon@rch | July 19, 2006 10:16 PM