What is Unsplash? Unsplash Review

introduce

1. Unsplash offers more than 550,000 photos, with thousands more updated every day

2. Help you find the photos you need, and view more pictures from other channels (Nasa, Trello, Apple, InVision)

3. Unsplash Wallpapers for Mac, a simple, free app that turns your Mac desktop background into a rotating gallery of stunning HD photography by the Unsplash community.

history

On May 27, 2013, Unsplash was launched as a Tumblr theme.

On September 14, 2013, co-founder Luke Chesser became the first full-time Unsplash team member.

On September 30, 2013, Unsplash reached 1 million downloads.

On May 30, 2014, Unsplash reached 10 million downloads.

On September 14, 2014, Unsplash was separated from Tumblr and downloaded more than 1 million times.

On January 21, 2015, Unsplash Search launched, powered by hundreds of thousands of tags contributed by the Unsplash community.

On May 27, 2015, Unsplash reached 30 million downloads.

On July 23, 2015, Unsplash Events traveled all over the world: from Tokyo to Seoul, from Honolulu to London.

August 19, 2015, Apple's "Shot with iPhone" campaign was launched

On August 26, 2015, the Unsplash API was launched.

On November 18, 2015, Unsplash Book became the first fully crowdsourced open book, featuring 250 pages of photos, essays, and artwork.

On December 1, 2015, the first selfie on Unsplash came from NASA.

As of February 2016, over 500 million photos are viewed per month on Unsplash.

In April 2016, Unsplash uploaded SpaceX's historic rocket sea landing, and anyone can use the photo on Unsplash.

As of May 2016, over 8.8 billion photos have been viewed on Unsplash and downloaded 92 million times.

As of December 2016, Unsplash has 1 billion photos viewed per month.

In May 2017, the free Unsplash API was launched, serving over 300 million+ requests per month to over 7,000 developers, including Trello, InVision, and Weebly.

As of September 14, 2017, the Unsplash library can reach 300,000 photos, and more than 50,000 photographers publicly promote their works on Unsplash.

In September 2017, wallpapers for Mac were launched.

On January 4, 2018, Unsplash delivered 10 photos per second.

In February 2018, Unsplash raised $8 million to build a new economy around photography.

In April 2018, Unsplash for iOS was released, bringing freely available photography to iPad and iPhone.

On April 22, 2018, Unsplash passed 500,000 photos.

As of May 2018, Unsplash API partners now account for 30% of Unsplash’s distribution power. Partners include Medium, Trello, FiftyThree, Product Hunt, Adobe, Google, Ghost, and Tencent (to name a few).