Flickr: More than half of the images submitted to us this year came from an iPhone

With the end of the year rapidly approaching, photo and video hosting site Flickr revealed some interesting stats about 2017. Of the billions of photos uploaded to Flickr this year, images taken with a smartphone accounted for 50% of them, up from 48% last year. Digital Single Lens Reflex snappers made up 33% of the submissions, up from 25% in 2016. As you might expect, the good ol' point and shoot camera suffered the biggest decline during the year, dropping from 21% of uploaded pictures in 2016 to just 12% in 2017.

The top brand? The Apple iPhone camera was the most widely used, accounting for 54% of the top 100 devices employed by Flickr subscribers. The Apple iPhone camera also took all ten places on the list of top ten devices used in 2017. Canon and Nikon placed second and third with 23% and 18% of the top 100 cameras, respectively. Last year, the iPhone was on top, used in 47% of images uploaded to Flickr, followed by Canon (24%) and Nikon (18%).

Flickr also released its top photos of 2017, and we've included the top three with this story. If you want to see what great photographers can achieve, simply click on the slideshow below!


source: Flickr