What free covers at a company event, and where it stops
The email that goes out the Monday after a company party — “if you took any good photos, please send them to marketing” — has a reliable yield of about four photos from the same two people. It is not that nobody took any. It is that sending forty photos to a colleague is genuinely annoying, and by Monday the evening has stopped feeling like it warrants the effort.
Asking during the party works because the ask is a QR code on the table. People upload from the phone while they are still at the event, and because everyone with the code sees the gallery, they scroll through what is already there — which is what makes the next person add theirs. The organizer then downloads the whole thing at full resolution from a private host page. On the free plan that is up to 20 photos each, any number of attendees, and the bulk download included.
Where free stops is video and time. Clips are on the paid plan, which matters if the awards or the CEO’s five minutes on stage are worth keeping. And a free event is deleted with its photos after 14 days — a window that falls entirely inside the week when everyone is catching up on the work they missed. $19.99 (£15.99 in the UK) once, per event and never recurring, removes both problems and adds tagging that makes a large gallery searchable.