The tiny clips are "the kind of video we want on Flickr," says Heather Champ, Flickr's director of community. YouTube, for instance, has a 10-minute limit for homemade video clips.īut Flickr had to tread carefully with video so as not to upset legions of photo-sharing purists who didn't want to see the site become a video-sharing site. Video sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Veoh don't charge anything to upload clips, and limits are much more liberal. You must pay $24.95 a year for a "pro" account to upload clips. Members can share clips of up to a minute and a half.
Last month, Flickr added video sharing to the mix, in its own unique way.
Pictures are presented larger than at most other free sites, and friends can easily discuss them. Unlike e-commerce sites such as Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery, which are designed to sell prints, Flickr is a social network for photo sharing. "Flickr is one of Yahoo's seminal brands," he says. It grew 56% in a year, with 44.4 million visitors worldwide in March, from 28.4 million the previous March.įlickr is such an integral part of Yahoo, it's one of its most trafficked features, up there with e-mail and instant messaging, says analyst Allen Weiner at researcher Gartner. Yahoo, which is struggling to restore early glory in the face of a bruising, now failed takeover attempt by Microsoft, has a rare hit on its hands with Flickr.Īccording to market tracker ComScore Media Metrix, Flickr is now the most popular stand-alone photo site. Yahoo's photo-sharing site has quietly become the most powerful force for dedicated online photo sharing. Racasa isn't the only shutterbug to jump. "You get feedback about your photos, and meet really interesting people." "On Flickr, there's a real community," he says. He switched to Yahoo's Flickr and hasn't looked back. — - Jonathan Racasa of West Covina, Calif., used to share his photos online on Shutterfly, but he wasn't sure anyone was really seeing them.
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