Flickr Goes Video

Yahoo’s has announced that Flickr is going to start hosting video content. The photo sharing site already has over 25 million members who have collectively uploaded over 2 billion photos and now they want your moving-photos. Here’s an example:

Yahoo says:

We spoke to our members, took surveys, played with very many video experiences on the web, and, of course, took lots of video. Through the process, we learned a few surprising things:

Most videos being captured today are essentially “long photos” — short clips that are captured on digital still cameras or mobile phones rather than long format video taken by traditional video cameras

People aren’t sharing these clips much. If they are, it’s either via playback on their camera, DVD, or sending a large email file.

While certainly there is video being shared on the web, most of it is re-broadcast content, such as clips from TV shows. If it’s user recorded content, much of it is material that is trying to be like broadcast content.

The video equivalent for the personal, authentic moments that are the hallmark of photos found on Flickr is actually pretty tough to find.

There area lot of phone photos that are sent directly to Flickr – maybe now the video content from these phones have a home too.

Flickr Video Pool