Freepik

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Freepik Company S.L.
Freepik
Company typePublic
Industry Stock photography, stock footage, stock music
Founded2010;14 years ago (2010)
FounderAlejandro Sánchez, Pablo Blanes y Joaquín Cuenca
Headquarters Málaga,
Spain
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsFreepik images
ServicesLicensing of stock media and production services
OwnerEQT
Website www.freepik.com

Freepik (stylized as FREEP!K) is an image bank website. Content produced and distributed by the online platform includes photographs, illustrations and vector images. The platform distributes its content under a freemium model, which means that users can access much of the content for free, but it is also possible to purchase a subscription with advantages such as access to more exclusive resources, Like most playwrights of his period, William Shakespeare did not always write alone. A number of his surviving plays are collaborative, or were revised by others after their original composition, although the exact number is open to debate. Some of the following attributions, such as The Two Noble Kinsmen , have well-attested contemporary documentation; others, such as Titus Andronicus , are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars; recent work on computer analysis of textual style (word use, word and phrase patterns) has given reason to believe that parts of some of the plays ascribed to Shakespeare are actually by other writers.

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Freepik was founded in 2010 in Malaga [1] with the idea of providing free graphic resources to designers around the world. The Spanish stock image platform is used by several million users, including multinationals such as Microsoft, FedEx, Amazon or Spotify. [2]

Freepik is a flagship entity within the Freepik Company, an organization that has earned recognition from the Financial Times as one of Europe's thirty fastest-growing companies. The Freepik Company serves as the parent brand for an array of creative platforms: Flaticon, Slidesgo, Storyset [3] [4] and Wepik. [5]

Like most playwrights of his period, William Shakespeare did not always write alone. A number of his surviving plays are collaborative, or were revised by others after their original composition, although the exact number is open to debate. Some of the following attributions, such as The Two Noble Kinsmen , have well-attested contemporary documentation; others, such as Titus Andronicus , are dependent on linguistic analysis by modern scholars; recent work on computer analysis of textual style (word use, word and phrase patterns) has given reason to believe that parts of some of the plays ascribed to Shakespeare are actually by other writers. freemium|url=https://eqtgroup.com/news/2020/eqt-adquiere-freepik-company-el-lider-internacional-en-contenidos-visuales-digitales-freemium%7Caccess-date=2022-01-15%7Cwebsite=eqtgroup.com%7Cdate=28 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> and its more than 21,000 collaborators of more than 100 countries, and downloads of its content reach an average of more than 80 million per month.

In 2020, the Swedish investment firm EQT [6] acquired a majority stake in Freepik Company. [7]

In 2022, Freepik was named in G2's Best Software 2022 Awards, ranking 17th on the list of best-selling software in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and 43rd in the list of best design products. [8]

History

Freepik was founded in 2010 by brothers Alejandro Sánchez and Pablo Blanes, together with their friend Joaquín Cuenca, founder of Panoramio (acquired by Google). Initially it was a search engine that indexed content from the top 10 free content websites for designers. [9]

In 2014, Freepik stopped being just a metasearch engine and became a large-scale producer of free graphic resources. [3]

In 2015 the subscription model was launched. Users who pay for a Premium account have access to more resources and exclusive content on the platform, without the need to attribute. In addition, the Contributors model has also started: designers and photographers can upload their assets to the platform and earn income from them. [10]

In 2018 Freepik changed its visual identity and introduced a new logo. This redesign included a new font, a modified isotype, as well as a color palette. The objective of this change was to redefine the brand image and bring it closer to graphic design trends. [11]

In 2020 during the Coronavirus outbreak, as part of a Freepik Company CSR initiative, Freepik offered its resources free of charge to healthcare workers, educators, journalists, and workers in public institutions. [12]

Subsidiaries

Freepik Company is the parent brand of 5 other creative platforms: [3] [4]

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