Flickr pushing online video to catch up with YouTube

Yahoo will be in the picture-sharing site Flickr available online family video, YouTube and Google intend to customers for the market, Flicker video technology in the Tuesday launch of Yahoo tried to drive Google’s determination to recover.

Yahoo over the past two years in the online search market, Google battle with the loss, a direct result of its profits and stock price decline, which further led to Microsoft’s 40 billion US dollars in the acquisition. To free itself from Microsoft’s acquisition, Yahoo constantly develops and introduces new services in order to reverse the unfavorable development of the company.

Web search different online video market is still far not reached such a large scale, but with the eyes of advertisers from TV to online, there is a big space for development. Yahoo currently has the world’s largest network of video platform, but the vast majority of its contents are from other outside professionals provided. Flickr major new technology-oriented users and want to show the conventional day-to-day family video users. Flickr only “professional” members can upload 90 second video, 24.95 US dollars required to pay annual fees to obtain membership, but anyone can watch for free, but can also see through the privacy settings object constraints.

Video services for the main English language services, as well as French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese. Flickr believe its services compared with other similar websites, which will provide users with more personalized service, and to be distinguished. Its Web site experience also hopes to attract more customers, he said, “We are now doing is to meet the needs of the market. Many people now have no personal life video display platform.”

Three friends Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim YouTube create in their video, because they can not find other network platform to share their works. In YouTube2005 launched in the spring shortly before Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield on the Flickr husband and wife to the price of 35 million US dollars sold to Yahoo. Flickr photos focus on the display, and various types of video works YouTube players will be transformed into a cultural phenomenon. Google at the end of 2006 to 1.76 billion US dollars to buy YouTube, the Web site with NBC News and cooperation greatly enhance competitiveness. February, the United States has 70 million people watched on YouTube 2.9 billion video, and Yahoo ranked in third place, a total of 24.5 million video display, 21 million people in the audience.

Flickr have their own loyal followers, now has attracted 42 million people from around the world concern over the same period last year, an increase of 53%.