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Yahoo Flickr pushs video function to answer Gu Ge to compete

April 8, 2008

Time of Beijing of dispatch of sina science and technology on April 9 message, according to foreign media coverage, zhou Er, yahoo photograph shared website Flickr to roll out video service, banner of song of cereal of billabong of this service hopeful issues the user of YouTube, become Yahoo to answer a when Gu Ge competes and boycott Microsoft to buy new move.

In going two years, yahoo searchs the market to was cast to be from the back aloof by Gu Ge in the network with thick profit, bring about its profit to glide from this with share price shrink, this also is to bring about Microsoft initiates bought main reason. For boycott Microsoft aggressive buy offensive, yahoo is being developed ceaselessly and roll out new service, with stimulating its profit grows.

With the network search business differs, the gain ability that network video serves so far still very finite, but this service already got the attention with sale closer and closer line of business, ad business also wait for its look move of burgeoning media platform to network video by the media such as traditional TV gradually. In fact Yahoo has had an one of video platform with the at present largest scale, but the person that its video content is offerred media of be confined to and partial major orgnaization, and the target group that Flickr video serves is hope and family and friend share what send video oneself ” spare class ” user.

Already paid 24.95 dollars to subscribe to the video content that the Flickr user of year of cost can upload length do not exceed 90 seconds, but the netizen video that browse is unlimited. The user also can install those who will limit video content to browse limits through privacy. At present Flickr video service supports 8 kinds of languages, it is English, French, German, Italian, Han Yu, portuguese, spanish and traditional Chinese respectively.

“The video that we roll out serves the market demand of will contented constant growth, ” general manager of Yahoo Flickr branch blocks Kuer Siliwasidawa (Kakul Srivastava) expresses, “At present great majority netizen has not uploaded to take the experience of video oneself. “At present great majority netizen has not uploaded to take the experience of video oneself..

Since from Gu Ge the bottom bought YouTube with 1.65 billion dollar 2006, video shares a website more and more get the netizen’s welcome, come from NBC meanwhile round-the-world the competition that waits for main media company with news group is intense with each passing day also.

Investigate the data that orgnaization Nielsen provides according to Internet, in American churchyard, the caller of YouTube website amounted to 70 million person-time this year in Feburary, segment of the video that browse is 2.9 billion; Ranking second is the Fox with news subordinate group interactive video, the caller number that month is 21 million person-time, the video number that browse is 406 million; It is Yahoo video next, have 21 million person-time the visit browses video with 245 million.

The data of ComScore of market survey orgnaization shows, the global user number of Flickr was amounted to Feburary 42 million, relatively the corresponding period increased last year 53% , and the global user number of Facebook is 65 million.

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