Flickr Video to be(come) THE Stock Video Library?
Flick got video.
Many people have been reporting on it and commenting on it.
And with all those opinions going around, it seems only fitting to throw in one of our own.
Here’s our prediction……. Flickr Video will not be like YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, Veoh, or any of the other video sharing sites.
Flickr Video will be(come) a Stock Video library. Maybe THE stock video library.
(This may even turn out to be revenue source for them if they act as the “payment gateway”, and take a small cut of all purchases of stock footage.)
That’s why only 90 seconds. (Stock Video video is usually short.)
Back when I first heard Flickr was getting video… I thought to myself, if I were Flickr, I’d try to be a Stock Footage site. Flickr certainly already has the right type of users to build up an impressive stock footage library. It also presents a possibility of a revenue source of selling stock footage.
Thinking that I suspected that that may be their plan. And now that they’ve said the videos can only be 90 seconds long, I’m more certain about it.
It will be interesting to see how things play out.
Tags: Flickr, Internet TV, NewTube, Online Video, Stock Footage, Stock Video, TV, Video, Video Blogging, Video Podcasting, Vlogging, Vodcasting