Phanfare
Phanfare is an online service built introduce by Phanfare, Inc in November 2004 offering consumers subscription-based photo sharing of their digital images and movies across the world wide web. The company was founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.
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Overview
Phanfare is targeted at families looking to share photos and movies without advertising or commercial branding. Consumers can upload their digital photos and videos to Phanfare. Friends and family can then view the photos and video from any web browser. Phanfare integrates address book and invitation tools to allow the consumer to efficiently send out invitations to view albums. Phanfare backs up and holds original fullsize images centrally, allowing the consumer to retrieve their original digital assets in the event that they lose their local copy. Aside from providing consumers a destination web site of their digital photos free of advertising of branding, Phanfare aims to significantly improve the consumer workflow behind digital photography.
Uploading of Photos and Videos
Phanfare distributes a photo organizing program called Phanfare Photo (PC compatible) that uploads photos in the background while the consumer adds captions, edits and organizes his photos. Phanfare Photo overlaps productive user work with network latency, giving users the perception of faster uploads. Phanfare can import Jpeg, Adobe Photoshop PSD images as well as AVI, Quicktime, WMV and Mpeg movies.
Licensing
Phanfare is licensed for consumer use. As of May 2005, there are no storage limits but consumers are limited to 8GB of network traffic per month.
Revenue Model
Phanfare derives its revenue from subscription fees directly from consumers. They also sell prints through Shutterfly.