Flickr adds video sharing feature

Yahoo!'s online photo sharing community Flickr today added video sharing feature on its website. Flickr pro members can now upload personal video clips on the website.

Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.
"Video on Flickr is an extension of what Flickr is already doing with more than two billion photos worldwide - providing a place where people capture and share life's daily moments," said Kakul Srivastava, general manager of Flickr at Yahoo!.
The new video uploading feature will support up to 90 seconds of personal video footage captured with the video function of any digital video recording device including still cameras, camcorders and camera phones.

According to a recent survey commissioned by Yahoo!, over 40 per cent of respondents aged 18-44 capture personal video clips with their digital cameras, but they are not taking advantage of websites to effectively share their videos. Fifty-five per cent merely play back video clips for their friends on their camera device or PC, and 20 per cent don't share these clips at all.

Flickr has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year.