Flickr...
So I figured Monday morning was the perfect time to talk about what is going on with my Flickr page; since I didn't do any work on spreading the photos around all weekend, and the views still went up.
The 'Age of Love' photo set is up to 186 views, and on a related note the other four ATP photos I uploaded are up to 185 views. Additionally the Tommy Robredo photo is up to 2,819 views.
I think this shows that once you put the word out about photos on Flickr they take on a viral life of their own. I concentrated on letting people know about the Age of Love photos last week, and the momentum continued through the weekend. Also, I didn't do any outreach for the other ATP photos beyond just posting them on the same page as my other photos - and they had almost as many views. Additionally, I stopped posting comments and messages about the Tommy Robredo photo early last week, and the views have still increased rapidly (800+ since last Tuesday).
To put this in perspective, Flickr loaded six photos to their Flickr blog (technorati: 302 links) from a Harry Potter event this weekend when the new book went on sale. Each photo has between 300 - 400 views, with this photo of people standing in line getting the most attention. In terms of traffic and views, I'd say our numbers are close to on par with these; it just took more proactive outreach since there is not as much buzz for ATP as there is for H.P. (which sold 8.3 million copies over the weekend!). What does separate these pictures from our photos for ATP are the number of comments. Combined, these photos have 23 comments, while we only have one comment on the Tommy Robredo photo. Since effectively starting and monitoring the conversation is one of our goals for the ATP social media bureau, I'm going to put extra effort against increasing the number of comments this week.