DISQUS

Marketing Pilgrim: Yahoo to Add Video Hosting to Flickr

  • symbian · 1 year ago
    Video services could cost a lot of money. It's not great time for Yahoo to spend more.
  • Jeff O'Connor · 1 year ago
    I am guessing that the back-end of Flickr video is going to be Yahoo! Video, sort of how del.icio.us 2.0 is going to be "powered" by the new Yahoo! Bookmarks.
  • Nicole · 1 year ago
    Is this going to be free? It had better be to compete with YouTube. Fickr does charge beyond a certain number of pics right?
  • Paul Chaney · 1 year ago
    Yea, but, I've often thought how convenient it would be if I could post both photos and video to the same place.
  • J.G. Howard · 1 year ago
    I think this is a great move for Yahoo. The Flickr community revolves around photography as art, sharing authentic communications about both form and content. If they can do the same for video, it will be a unique community and easily differentiated from YouTube and others.

    Many photographers progress into video, so it seems a natural fit. The name Flickr always reminded me more of movies than photos, anyway. ;-)
  • Andy Beal · 1 year ago
    @Paul Chaney - I can post videos and images to Smugmug.com.
  • Daniel R · 1 year ago
    @Andy:

    Flickr has been talking about this forever, so I'm suspect until I see it. Also, I'm still curious about the Yahoo Video v. Flickr Video comparison. Can Yahoo afford to have two duplicate properties?
  • Bernie Goldbach · 1 year ago
    If videos are as easy to upload to Flickr as images are through add-ons like Zonetag, I will use the service more than I use YouTube. And I wouldn't mind paying for privileges like I do with two Flickr Pro accounts currently.