Last year if you wanted to keep your photos on Google, you’d either have to turn to Google Drive or Google+. However earlier this year Google decided to split up Google+’s photo storage into Google Photos and Streams, and it turns out that the idea was a pretty good one because according to Google, Google Photos has since managed to cross 100 million monthly active users.
Yup, you read that right, about five months since its launch, the service has managed to cross 100 million monthly active users, averaging out at 20 million new users every month. For those unfamiliar, Google Photos is basically a storage service of sorts where users can upload their photos and keep them in the cloud for free.
However the service can also help organize photos for you, as well as create various moments if it detects that a bunch of photos you’ve taken are from around the same time and location. Best of all, for the most part Google Photos is free. Users can upload and store photos from their phone onto Google Photos for free with unlimited storage as long as the photos uploaded are kept below certain megapixels.
According to Google, other interesting facts about Google Photos is that food is the second most popular upload apart from people. Dogs are also the most popular animal photographed and stored on Google Photos, and Paris is also the most photographed location, followed by New York and Barcelona.
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