Picnik 2008 Year in Review
A year ago, Picnik had a little over a million monthly visits. Last week, we had one million visits in one day. Exceeding all our wildest expectations, our 1400% increase in traffic this year translates to 25% more happy Picnikers each and every month!
Since this time last year, we launched the Free side of Picnik with our ad-supported features, professional printing services through our partners at Qoop, professional fonts from FontShop, added the Picnik Basket with the Layering, multi-file uploading, and collage capabilities, Collages and Fancy Collage, a whole slew of fabulously popular touch-up tools like Shine-Be-Gone and Eye Color, the Sandbox tab’s Pixelbender effects, launched with Adobe Flash 10, teamed up with new API partners like Myspace, SmugMug and Photobox, integrated Paypal into our payment options, plus new Effects like Panography, Puzzle, and Advanced Editing tools like Curves, Levels, and the Clone tool.
But it wasn’t just a lot of traffic and releases! The year was happily punctuated with awards and award shows and press mentions and publications! In June we won the Stevie Award and Webby Award, and were listed as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2008 and Facebook for Dummies‘ 10 greatest Facebook apps. In July we were mentioned in Macworld and were International Design Magazine’s 54th Annual Design Review “Best In Show” for the Interactive category! In August we were an OMMA Awards Finalist, September brought the 2008 Web Marketing Association’s Web Award, October the TIS 100 and W3 Silver Award, and November the Pixel Award for the Geek Category.
Not too shabby!
January 11th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Easy to use, does all that I need. So much simpler than other systems I have tried, and it’s free!
January 11th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I bought the premium package and it was a bargain. I use it weekly and cannot wait for the new innovations that will come. Being in real estate its a great tool for blogs, websites and flyers. Go Ahead!!!!!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I started using picnik about a year ago. Have seen improvements everyday, one greater than the other.
Easy to learn, easy to use.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hi! I was just referred here today by my sister. She stumbled upon you in a search and thought I might like it.
I thought, “I have great software that I like. I don’t need anything else.” Boy was I wrong! What great effects you have!!!! I was amazed at the ease in use. Thanks so much for the freeness! I can see myself upgrading in a while when I want something more. WOW! GREAT! AMAZING! Thanks a bunch!
February 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
[...] The awesomeness of Picnik is already well-documented, but it can’t be overstated how Darrin’s specific insights made it awesome. Combining the emerging technologies in Flash and Flex to create an experience never before seen on the web, making the architecture of client/server software smarter, increasing the potential for application web services, and how photo editing at all could be a prime example of all that is possible to do with those technologies, all over the web, were key perceptions on the part of Darrin’s without which there would be no Picnik. And since Picnik, all sorts of people have developed similar applications, but they’ve done so in a landscape that was changed by Picnik. And as a result, Picnik has been mentioned glowingly in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Wired and Macworld, and won prestigious awards from across the development, design, and business spectrum. [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
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