Twenty-five years in one room.
And in every office at once.
You are the internal comms or HR lead who has been asked to make the anniversary mean something, not just be a cake. The history of the company is in the drawers of the people who have been there longest: the first office, the badly lit team photo from the trade show, the founder in a haircut nobody has mentioned since. Open the event weeks before the day and those photos come in first. Then, on the night, the founders' stories and the toasts are recorded, every office watches together, and the wall of then-and-now is built by the people who were there.
The moments guests actually photograph at company anniversaries
Why company anniversaries work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The old photos arrive before the day
Open the event a month early and ask everyone to upload the oldest photo they have of the company. Scans, phone pictures of prints, the founder's flip-phone shots; anything a phone can hold, at original quality. By the day you have a then-and-now wall nobody could have built from the marketing drive.
Founders' stories in their own voices
The story of the first customer, told by the person who signed them, in a 60-second voice message or a 30-second video recorded from the guest page. Long-serving staff and alumni record theirs too. Ten years from now these are the only part of the night anyone will look for.
Every office watches the same toast
A company with several offices has several anniversary parties and one moment that matters. Live Pass streams the founder's speech and the toast to a private link, with audio, for up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers, so the newest office raises a glass at the same second as the first one.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like — phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos — with a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Voice messages
Guests record up to 60 seconds of audio right from the upload page — a blessing, a toast, a story — saved next to the photos in the same gallery.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
Live Pass is a standalone $39 one-time add-on: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with audio. Family abroad watch on any phone, no app required.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event a month ahead and send the link company-wide with one ask: upload the oldest photo of us you have.
Build the then-and-now wall from the early uploads. Put the QR code on the invitation, the wall itself and the screens at every office.
On the night, stream the founders' speech to every office, and ask staff and alumni to record a story from the same page they upload photos to.
Download the archive for the company history page and the next induction deck, and keep the gallery link in the intranet for the year.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from company anniversaries
Start the event well before the party and make the first ask specific. "Upload the oldest photo of the company you have" gets the trade show booth from the early years and the first office kitchen; "share your memories" gets nothing. Go to the longest-serving people individually, because they have the prints and will not think of them as photos worth uploading. Invite alumni to the link at the same time; the people who left on good terms have the years the current staff do not, and they are flattered to be asked. Print the best of it for the wall on the night, and put the code on the wall so the stories attach to the pictures.
Give the guestbook a question that only someone who was there can answer, and let the recording do the rest. "What is the first thing you remember about working here?" or "Who taught you the most, and what?" gets a founder telling the story of the first invoice into a 30-second video, and the receptionist who has been there longer than anyone recording the version of events nobody in leadership knows. Set up a quiet corner near the wall with a sign, because people record better stories when they are not shouting over the band, and the corner becomes its own queue.
Plan the broadcast around one moment, not the whole night, and give every office a role. The founder's speech and the toast are what all offices should see together; stream that with Live Pass to a private link and tell each office in advance what time to gather. Ask each office to upload a photo of themselves raising a glass, so the gallery shows the whole company at the same moment. The slideshow on the screen in each office can run the then-and-now wall throughout. Afterwards, download the archive and give it to whoever writes the induction deck; it is the company history, told by the company.
Common questions about company anniversaries
How do we collect old photos from employees before the anniversary?
Create the event early, a month before the day is about right, and send the link to everyone with a single specific request for the oldest photo they have of the company. There is no app and no account, so people photograph a print with their phone or upload a scan in a minute, and originals are kept at full resolution. Write to the longest-serving staff and to alumni individually; they hold the earliest years and rarely volunteer them. By the week of the party you will have enough for a then-and-now wall, and the uploads keep coming on the night.
Can founders and long-serving staff record their stories?
Yes, from the same page everyone uploads photos to. A voice message is up to 60 seconds and a video message up to 30 seconds, recorded in the browser with nothing to install, and both are saved in the gallery with the photos. Give the guestbook a question that prompts a story rather than a congratulation, and set up a quiet corner on the night so the recordings are audible. For a founder's full speech, film it separately and upload the clip, since the message recorder is for short stories rather than a keynote.
We have offices in several countries. How do they all take part?
Stream the moment that matters with Live Pass, a $39 one-time add-on for the event, which sends the founder's speech and the toast to a private link, with audio, for up to 90 minutes and 100 viewers on any phone or laptop. Each office gathers around a screen at the agreed time and uploads a photo of itself into the same gallery. Guest pages appear in English, Español, Français, chosen from the phone's own settings, so staff in every office upload and record in the language they think in.
Is the anniversary gallery private, and can alumni see it?
The gallery is private by default, reachable only by the link or code you share, never listed, and blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. You decide who gets the link, and sending it to alumni is a normal and good use of it. If you would rather review first, turn on host review and every upload waits for your approval before anyone sees it, which is sensible when old photos of a first office may show a customer name on a whiteboard. The gallery stays online for 365 days on an Event Pass, then you keep the archive.
What does an anniversary event cost?
An Event Pass is $29 one time for one event, and it covers the month of collecting old photos beforehand, the night itself and the 365 days of hosting after, with unlimited uploads under a 25 GB fair-use bound, voice and video messages, the slideshow, host review and full-resolution downloads. Broadcasting the toast to other offices is Live Pass, a separate $39 one-time add-on. There is no per-employee charge and no subscription, and the archive you download at the end is yours to keep for the next milestone.
Every photo from company anniversaries, in one place
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