Comments on: Unlimited Storage AND Bandwidth for Flickr PRO’s

By: Four Starters » 2 Reasons Why All Online Storage Should Scale

Four Starters » 2 Reasons Why All Online Storage Should Scale — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:44:40 +0000

[...] online storage is also good for (some) businesses, which is why Flickr decided to go for their model of unlimited storage. Flickr’s business model thrives on their community, and therefore getting an active [...]

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:40:35 +0000

I think Yahoo! wants to get hooked, knowing that these subs would buy something in the future.

Note that Flickr is also taking sponsorships from camera manufacturers.

By: rain

rain — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:23:27 +0000

Good question, and I don’t have the answer to that either. Err, Yahoo just sustains them?

Its easy to compare them to an online service like YouTube, where one would easily think ‘how can this company make money with their bandwidth costs’? And YouTube even serves very visible, prominent ads; while Flickr doesn’t!

By: hip2b2

hip2b2 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:23:42 +0000

does flickr actually make money by selling pro accounts? the last i heard they only had a few thousand subscribers.