It’s onerous to consider, when wanting again, that my iDownloadBlog Wallpapers of the Week is celebrating a tenth anniversary. At the very least as soon as, each week, for 520 weeks, you’ve downloaded recent, crispy wallpapers in your favourite Apple units. To be sincere, I’m a bit shocked by the milestone. Inside, we check out my favourite collections from every of the earlier 10 years!
10 years of Wallpapers of the Week
I first got here to iDB greater than 10 years in the past. The truth is, my first ever submit was on June 27, 2012. Major focus was on opinions of Apple targeted gadget equipment. I examined a few wallpaper posts alongside the best way and reception was unimaginable! Certainly one of these early check wallpaper packs was designed for the Evas10n Jailbreak and was included in an article on Forbes!
Evidently, however I used to be extremely excited by the inclusion on Forbes and it drove unimaginable quantity of visitors with a hyperlink again to iDB. These early wallpaper posts rapidly rose to the highest checklist of visited pages on a weekly foundation. Consequently, Seb, our EIC, and I agreed to a weekly wallpaper dedication.
The primary official “Wallpapers of the Week” have been posted on July 7, 2013 and included photos from a photographer that I used to be monitoring on DeviantArt, which is a throwback in and of itself. From the early days, certainly one of my major objectives was to identify gentle particular person digital artists who created packs of downloads for Apple units.
Throughout the earlier 10 years, we now have featured a great deal of artists and a few greater than others. I’m sorry if I go away you any of you out of the checklist, however my because of a few of the most ceaselessly featured artists or sharers of nice wallpapers, together with however not restricted to: @AR72014; @BasicAppleGuy; @Surenix; @iSpazio; @JasonZigrino; @wallsbyjfl; @Arthur1992aS; @fresk0_; @jianoliu; @its_shevi; @Axellvak; @iDeviceArt; @Red1860; @MattBirchler. Naturally the checklist of featured artists and repos is for much longer, however these come to thoughts rapidly when pondering again throughout the years.
To provide a guess on the scope of my curated gallery on iDB, I’ll provide some fast math. If you’ll indulge me: I posted 1 article per week for 52 weeks per 12 months, however usually had midweek particular editions for Apple system {hardware} launches or media occasions. I’ll take a conservative guess and say that 60 posts per 12 months is a simple common. Every wallpaper submit averages 5 downloads per submit… typically extra, by no means actually much less. Okay, let’s name it six downloads. Subsequently, 60 posts per 12 months multiplied by six wallpapers per submit multiplied by 10 years equals 3,600+ uploaded wallpapers in the gallery.
Throughout the journey to add 1000’s of wallpapers, y’all have contributed too, by catching up with me by way of Twitter @jim_gresham. Since beginning the gathering I’ve appreciated you following alongside, as I now have greater than 10,000 followers, however began with lower than 1,000 on the time. My follower depend drastically elevated throughout a collaboration with YouTuber MKBHD, after I created a wallpaper pack that helped launch his second merch line.
I collaborated with Marques to assist enhance his channel to 6M followers (now 17.2M) with a view to launch his new line of swag on the shop. In flip, he helped promote the wallpaper submit and our iDB Wallpapers of the Week gallery. We acquired a variety of referral visitors consequently!
Thanks for indulging me this fast jaunt down reminiscence lane. Enhancing the wallpaper gallery has been a ardour mission for the final 10 years. At instances, it has been onerous to get the submit up each.single.week. To share a potential shock, I’m not a full time iDB author, however the consistency of the submit, gathering of the photographs, and weekly expectation is hard when life and different commitments get in the best way. I’ve solely missed one Sunday submit within the 10 12 months interval! In the event you’ve beloved the wallpaper posts, I’d love to listen to about it.
Please, shoot me a message on Twitter @jim_gresham, for those who’ve appreciated the downloads at any time previously.
Try my favourite wallpaper pack from every of the earlier calendar years. To be clear, I didn’t contemplate official Apple {hardware} associated wallpapers within the checklist!
2023
Incredible mountainscape wallpapers for iPhone
2022
Amazing iOS 16 Depth Effect wallpapers for iPhone
2021
Waves: a macOS Big Sur-inspired wallpapers pack
2020
Sunset wallpapers pack for iPhone and iPad
2019
True black and OLED optimized wallpapers for iPhone XS pack 2 (pack 1)
2018
Wallpapers of the Week: true black pack
2017
iPhone X wallpaper pack 4 (pack 1; pack 2; pack 3)
2016
Designer Star Wars wallpapers collection
2015
San Francisco wallpapers for dual screens
2014
Winter chilled wallpapers for iPhone and iPad
2013
Wallpapers of the week: parallax ready walls for iOS 7
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Most significantly, a particular because of my partner for being supportive of my weekend interest, that additionally spilled into the week nights…and holidays…and household occasions… and, all types of different issues. Since this isn’t my day job, there may be an additional time commit right here that she has at all times supported and for that I’m very grateful and appreciative.
