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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Flickr to Get Contextual Nikon Banner Ads

Nikon has struck a deal with Flickr to place Nikon branding on the site, including small logos next to photos that were taken with their cameras. In addition, there will be branding on the login pages as well as special Nikon-only photo galleries. As Mediapost notes, this is the first major brand advertising campaign to run on Flickr, which to date has only had text links.

It will be interesting to see how the Flickr community reacts to these ads - particularly the ones that appear next to their photos. Many shutterbugs are loyal to one particular camera brand. So I can see Nikon lovers really taking to the campaign and those who take to other brands not liking the promotion. I sure hope that Flickr makes this optional for Pro users because a backlash could erupt. People should have the option to opt in or out of companies putting certain banners around their photos. (Disclaimer: Edelman works with Canon, a Nikon competitor.)

UPDATE: Tom Biro from MWW (Nikon's PR firm) writes in that Flickr Pro users should not be seeing the Nikon branding along with the EXIF data on photographs when those users are logged in, and non-Pro (or non-logged in) users should not be seeing the Nikon branding when they are viewing photographs taken by Flickr Pro users.

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