Popular image-sharing service Flickr, which is owned by Internet giant Yahoo! Inc., has this week moved to widen its online appeal by elbowing a path into the video-sharing arena dominated by Google’s YouTube.
Flickr expands into the video-sharing market with Flickr Video. Credit: Poolie/Flickr.
Flickr’s new video-sharing feature is open to registered ‘pro’ members and allows them to upload personal video clips in order to share them with friends, family and, if so desired, the entire online world.
“Video on Flickr is an extension of what Flickr is already doing with more than 2 billion photos worldwide -- providing a place where people capture and share life’s daily moments,” explained Kakul Srivastava, GM of Flickr at Yahoo!.
Srivastava went on to say that the continuing proliferation of digital media means that “people are much more likely to shoot short video clips” with their digital camera and mobile phones. “There is a great resonance between this new category of content and with the kind of authentic, personal moments already being shared on Flickr,” he added.
Flickr compounds that notion via the results of a recent Yahoo-commissioned survey. According to the survey’s finding, more then 40 percent of respondents (aged between 18 and 44) are actively capturing personal video clips with their digital cameras while not necessarily posting them to Web-based sharing services.
55 percent of those polled play their clips back to friends via the camera used to record the video content or by a connected personal computer. 20 percent of respondents currently don’t share their clips in any way.
Flickr explains that its new pro member video feature will allow users to upload personal clips up to 90 seconds in length (150MB maximum) via any digital video recording device including still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. Uploaded user video will be open to the same organisation, sharing and privacy parameters as Flickr’s existing image delivery system.
Flickr says it will moderate video uploads through a combination of Flickr team review, community review and automated abuse-spotting mechanisms, all likely put into effect in an effort to catch posted clips that violate copyright -- something that has long dogged YouTube.
Flickr Video will arrive in a selection of eight languages (English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese) and offer up pro user features such as
Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages, which are English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. According to Flickr, its worldwide monthly user base has grown from 27 million to 42 million and serves as the “eyes of the world” for its members.
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