Flickr Add Video to its Popular Photo-Sharing Community, Flickr, a Yahoo Inc. company and one of the world’s fastest growing online photo-sharing communities, today launched video sharing.

Flickr stepping into video sharing is a definite positive step unlike many video sharing sites like YouTube, one thing flickr is tough about is moderated video content, that means the videos posted at flickr will be moderated, should be created by individuals only and should follow content policy by flickr. Apart from that flickr will only allow 90seconds of playback for the videos posted.

The video uploading is only available for Flickr pro members who can upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family
and the world.Flickr - which has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year(1) - serves as the ‘eyes of the world’ for its members globally, and with the addition of video, is giving people more ways to share what they see and experience in their everyday lives. The new enhancement is helping to advance Yahoo!’s goal to become the leading starting point on the Web by offering an even more engaging and relevant service for sharing, exploring and discovering digital imagery.

As pro members around the world upload personal video clips on Flickr, people can see, share, and experience the world in motion through the eyes of the Flickr community. Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides:

Features of Flickr Video Sharing

• Video uploading for Flickr pro members
• The ability for free and pro members to view public video clips
• Video limits up to 90 seconds long and 150MB maximum in size
• Controls to make videos private, visible to friends and/or family, or public
• Seamless integration of videos into the photostream, along with photos
• The ability to share video clips individually, as part of a set, or embed on third-party Web sites
• Tagging and geotagging capabilities for videos
• The ability to search videos by tags and descriptions
• The ability to upload videos directly from camera phones
• The option to view videos on a full screen
• Licensing options to mark a video as ‘All Rights Reserved’ or designate a license through Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
• Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr

Ref : Yahoo Press Release, Flickr Blog,