Flickr Makes Good On Video Promise For Paid Subscribers

True to their previous promise, Flickr has added video uploading and hosting to their resume of services. Users that participate in Flickr's paid account program will be able to upload clips to their photostreams just as they would their photos. The video clips, however, are a bit constricted: video caps at 90-second clips and/or 150MB. As of now, the service is only available to paid subscribers, but expanding this service to free subscribers at a later date was not ruled out.

When this info was leaked last month, Flickr said that they wanted to make sure they introduced video into their mix "in an authentic way," and one of the big questions we had was how would they do that? Turns out that the limitations on the file size for video is exactly how. Most people use their regular digital cameras to record video clips (which are usually regulated to short clips by the camera), and those people generally just show their friends that video right on their cameras. Flickr is now offering a way to upload everything you do to your digital camera directly to their site, giving people a one stop shop of sharing!

It's obvious Flickr is not trying to aim for the viral video market that You Tube owns, but the more fine-tuned focus makes sense to me and may even be able to make Flickr's video service viable in the market, not to mention separate it from the pack of other photo storage/sharing sites out there. The only problem I have now is trying to keep Tiny away from my camera... you don't want to know what kind of "videos" he's been making lately.

Flickr launches video updates [Download Squad]