🆚 Flickr vs. Pinterest

📈 Pinterest is much more popular than Flickr.
🌎 Pinterest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Flickr is more popular in Chile, Ecuador, and Rwanda.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Flickr

Type

Social media platform

About

Flickr is a photo-sharing social network and image hosting service with free storage for up to 1,000 photos.

It provides full-resolution image storage without compression, photostream galleries, albums and collections, tagging and geolocation, groups and community interactions, basic editing tools, and an API for developers.

Pinterest is a visual discovery and social media platform for sharing and organizing images and videos using Pins, which are visual bookmarks linked to external content and grouped into themed boards.

It hosts billions of Pins and supports visual search with camera-based discovery, collaborative and private boards with sections, and built-in messaging.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

flickr.com #32

pinterest.com #15

Pricing

Free version ✔️Maximum of 50 non-public photos or videos; 1,000 item upload limit

Flickr Pro$11/month

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pinterest social media platform is 7 times more popular than Flickr.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pinterest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Flickr is more popular in Chile, Ecuador, and Rwanda.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Vietnam

Spain

Canada

India

France

Italy

Netherlands

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Rwanda in the Social Media category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Chile in the Social Media category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Ecuador in the Social Media category.
⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Estonia in the Social Media category.

⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Bulgaria in the Social Media category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Lithuania in the Social Media category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pinterest is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Flickr is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, government and military, and sports sites.

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Travel

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Real Estate

Internet Services

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#32

#320

#474

#1,115

#1,143

Name

Rank

#51

#83

#93

#106

#110