Servimg

What Servimg does

Servimg is a free online image hosting service published by e-Toxic, a French limited liability company (SARL) headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, and registered in the Antibes Trade and Companies Register under number 490 862 059. The platform allows individual users and forum administrators to upload, host, and share JPG, PNG, and GIF images for embedding on online forums and blogs, with features including multiple image uploads, drag-and-drop functionality, image galleries, BBCode and HTML thumbnail generation, and HTTPS-supported delivery. Infrastructure is hosted across OVH in Roubaix, France and SOFTLAYER (IBM) in Plano, Texas, providing dual-region data redundancy.

Servimg operates a freemium business model. The free tier is monetized through display advertising delivered via third-party ad providers under an IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework-compliant Consent Management Platform (n° 92), with advertising cookies used for audience measurement and targeted ads. The optional paid tier, Servimg Pro, provides enhanced features via a monthly subscription with a 15-day withdrawal period; pricing is not publicly disclosed and operates on a quote-based basis. A separate data marketing arrangement with Sirdata, with data retained for a maximum of 365 days, supports relevant offer delivery.

The company targets two customer segments: individual forum and blog users who need reliable, embeddable image hosting, and forum administrators who require infrastructure for community-generated images. Go-to-market is product-led, relying on organic growth driven by tight integration with Forumotion, Forumactif, and six other regional free forum hosting platforms (Forumgratuit, Actieforum, Foroactivo, Forumattivo, Forumeiros, Forumieren) that share user account data with Servimg on a mutual basis. The service is available in 11 languages (English, French, Chinese simplified, Arabic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Dutch), targeting European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and East Asian linguistic markets. No revenue, funding, headcount trend, or management team data is disclosed in the available sources.

Name

Servimg

Legal name

e-Toxic

Website

https://www.servimg.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Servimg is a free online image hosting service that lets individual users and forum administrators upload and share JPG, PNG, and GIF images for use on online forums and blogs. Operated by French company e-Toxic, it runs a freemium model monetized through display advertising and an optional paid Servimg Pro monthly subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Image Hosting Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

akta.pro primary industry

Media Asset Management (MAM) Platforms (MPAHAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud Media Archive & Cold Storage Services (MPAHAGAF), Ingest, Indexing & Proxy/Mezzanine Generation (MPAHAGAH)

Keywords

• Image hosting service
• Photo sharing platform
• Forum image upload
• Free image hosting
• BBCode image embedding

Headquarters

HQ city

Genappe

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Freemium Image Hosting: Basic image hosting service is provided free of charge, monetized through advertising displayed on the platform
2. Servimg Pro Subscription: Optional paid premium version with monthly subscription, providing enhanced features. 15-day withdrawal period applies.
3. Display Advertising: Revenue generated through display advertising displayed on hosted pages, using third-party ad providers with cookies for audience measurement and targeted ads

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Servimg provides a free web-based image hosting service that allows individual users and forum administrators to upload, host, and share JPG, PNG, and GIF images for use on forums and blogs. The service supports multiple uploads, drag-and-drop, image galleries, and BBCode/HTML thumbnail generation, with optional premium features delivered through a paid Servimg Pro monthly subscription.

Product overview

Servimg is a free image hosting service consisting of two offerings: the core Servimg (free) service for uploading, hosting, and sharing images in JPG, PNG, and GIF formats for forums and blogs, and an optional paid version called Servimg Pro that provides enhanced features via monthly subscription. The core service includes features such as multiple image uploading, drag and drop functionality, image links, image galleries, BBCode and HTML thumbnails. Both versions operate through a web-based interface with HTTPS support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Servimg Pro: A paid subscription tier of Servimg offering additional features beyond the free image hosting service.

Products and services

• Servimg (Free Image Hosting) A free web-based image hosting service that lets individual users upload, host, and share JPG, PNG, and GIF images and photo galleries for use on forums and blogs, via HTTPS, with multiple image uploads, drag-and-drop, image galleries, and BBCode and HTML thumbnail generation.
• Servimg Pro A paid monthly subscription upgrade to the Servimg free service that provides enhanced features for users who need premium image hosting capabilities.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and secondary.

• ForumotioncoreGTM or Marketing PartnerForumotion.com is a free forum hosting service partner. Data is shared automatically when users create accounts on Servimg or on a Forumotion forum. This partnership drives user acquisition for both platforms.
• ForumactifcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerFrench-language forum hosting service (forumactif.com) with automatic data sharing for account creation. Partner platform for driving French-speaking user base.
• ForumgratuitminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRomanian-language forum hosting service with data sharing integration.
• ActieforumminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDutch-language forum hosting service with data sharing integration.
• ForoactivominorGTM or Marketing PartnerSpanish-language forum hosting service with data sharing integration.
• ForumattivominorGTM or Marketing PartnerItalian-language forum hosting service with data sharing integration.
• ForumeirosminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPortuguese-language forum hosting service with data sharing integration.
• ForumierenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGerman-language forum hosting service (forumieren.de) with data sharing integration.
• OVHcoreOthersPrimary datacenter provider located in Roubaix, France, hosting Servimg's infrastructure and user data.
• SOFTLAYER (IBM)secondaryOthersSecondary datacenter provider located in Plano, Texas, USA, providing data redundancy and US-based hosting capabilities.
• SirdataminorOthersData marketing company that enables relevant offers tailored to user interests. Data retained for max 365 days per GDPR minimization principle.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Imgur: Direct competitor offering free consumer image and GIF hosting with social commenting; Servimg competes for the same forum/blog user base, especially via embeddable image links, though Imgur operates at substantially larger scale.
• Postimage: Direct free image hosting peer focused on forum and message-board users, offering similar BBCode/HTML thumbnail features and unlimited uploads — Servimg's closest head-to-head competitor.
• ImgBB: Free image hosting service targeting forum and blog use cases with embed code generation, very similar in feature set and target user to Servimg.
• ImageShack: Long-standing consumer image hosting platform with freemium and paid tiers; competes with Servimg for forum and personal image-hosting use cases.
• Freeimage.host: Free image hosting service targeting forum and website use, with BBCode thumbnails and API — Servimg's feature set is essentially a subset of what Freeimage.host offers.
• ImgPile: Free image hosting platform targeted at forum users with similar embed/BBCode functionality, competing for the same niche forum-community use case.
• Imagebam: Free image hosting service with paid tiers, popular with forum users for hosting large galleries — overlaps with Servimg's gallery and forum-hosting positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Photobucket: Established photo hosting and sharing platform with a broader consumer and prosumer focus, including paid storage tiers; overlaps with Servimg on image hosting but serves a wider audience.
• Flickr: Long-standing photo hosting and sharing platform with freemium tiers and a large established user base; comparable to Servimg in core image hosting function but with a much broader social/community positioning.

Emerging players

• Cloudinary: Cloud-based image and video management platform with APIs, transformations, and developer tooling; represents the up-market, enterprise-grade trajectory that Servimg's no-API service does not currently address.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Servimg_com
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/servim

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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